Overview
About vulnerability
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/xe/guc: Fix buffer overflow in steered register list allocation
The size calculation for the steered register extarray uses only the geometry DSS mask (g_dss_mask) to determine the number of entries to allocate:
total = bitmap_weight(gt->fuse_topo.g_dss_mask, …) * steer_reg_num;
However, the filling loop uses for_each_dss_steering(), which iterates over for_each_dss(), defined as the union of g_dss_mask and c_dss_mask (geometry + compute DSS). On platforms with compute-only DSS bits, the loop writes past the allocated buffer, corrupting adjacent slab objects.
This manifests as list_del corruption and SLUB redzone overwrites during drm_managed_release on device unbind, since the overflow corrupts the drmres list_head of neighboring allocations.
Fix by computing the allocation size using the union of both DSS masks, matching the iteration pattern of for_each_dss_steering().
– v2:
- use bitmap_weighted_or() (Zhanjun)
(cherry picked from commit 0a78a44f4901aa6c9263e66be7fce02282f1109f)
Details
- Affected product:
- AlmaLinux 9.2 ESU , Debian 10 ELS , TuxCare 9.6 ESU
- Affected packages:
- linux @ 4.19.0 (+2 more)