Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI/IOV: Fix race between SR-IOV enable/disable and hotplug
Commit 05703271c3cd (“PCI/IOV: Add PCI rescan-remove locking when enabling/disabling SR-IOV”) tried to fix a race between the VF removal inside sriov_del_vfs() and concurrent hot unplug by taking the PCI rescan/remove lock in sriov_del_vfs(). Similarly the PCI rescan/remove lock was also taken in sriov_add_vfs() to protect addition of VFs.
This approach however causes deadlock on trying to remove PFs with SR-IOV enabled because PFs disable SR-IOV during removal and this removal happens under the PCI rescan/remove lock. So the original fix had to be reverted.
Instead of taking the PCI rescan/remove lock in sriov_add_vfs() and sriov_del_vfs(), fix the race that occurs with SR-IOV enable and disable vs hotplug higher up in the callchain by taking the lock in sriov_numvfs_store() before calling into the driver’s sriov_configure() callback.
Details
- Affected product:
- Oracle Linux 7 ELS , Ubuntu 20.04 ELS
- Affected packages:
- kernel-uek @ 5.4.17 (+2 more)
Fixes
KernelCare state
Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.
| Operating system | Status | Covered kernels |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 2023 | Planned | — |
| Debian 11 | Released |
1 kernel
|
| Debian 11 cloud | Released |
1 kernel
|
| Debian 12 | Released |
4 kernels
|
| Debian 13 | Planned | — |
| Oracle Linux 7 UEK 6 | Released |
112 kernels
|
| Oracle Linux 8 UEK 6 | Released |
138 kernels
|
| Proxmox VE 7 5.15 | Released |
47 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE AWS | Released |
57 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 HWE Azure | Released |
40 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 | Released |
88 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 AWS | Released |
79 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 22.04 Azure | Released |
73 kernels
|
| Ubuntu 24.04 | Planned | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 AWS | Planned | — |