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CVE-2022-50472

IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 5.10.258, 5.15.86, 6.0.16, 6.1.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context Tracepoints are not allowed to sleep, as such the following splat is generated due to call to ib_query_pkey() in atomic context. WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2492 rb_commit+0xc1/0x220 CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8.x86_64 #1 Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 04/01/2014 Workqueue: ib-comp-unb-wq ib_cq_poll_work [ib_core] RIP: 0010:rb_commit+0xc1/0x220 RSP: 0000:ffffa8ac80f9bca0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: ffff8951c7c01300 RBX: ffff8951c7c14a00 RCX: 0000000000000246 RDX: ffff8951c707c000 RSI: ffff8951c707c57c RDI: ffff8951c7c14a00 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff8951c7c01300 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000246 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff964c70c0 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8951fbc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f20e8f39010 CR3: 000000002ca10005 CR4: 0000000000170ef0 Call Trace: ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x1d/0xa0 trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x1b0 trace_event_buffer_commit+0x67/0x1d0 trace_event_raw_event_ib_mad_recv_done_handler+0x11c/0x160 [ib_core] ib_mad_recv_done+0x48b/0xc10 [ib_core] ? trace_event_raw_event_cq_poll+0x6f/0xb0 [ib_core] __ib_process_cq+0x91/0x1c0 [ib_core] ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core] process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 worker_thread+0x30/0x390 ? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0 kthread+0x116/0x130 ? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40 ---[ end trace 78ba8509d3830a16 ]---

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Linux Linux

    From 821bf1de45a1a084e2e11b1a2308777434194bfe · fixed in d45e6ccb8e98d8339631f32984d345a663e74ce2; From 821bf1de45a1a084e2e11b1a2308777434194bfe · fixed in 47e31b86edff36f2d26cbc88ce695d98ff804178; From 821bf1de45a1a084e2e11b1a2308777434194bfe · fixed in cea70a572c0cb9728d728cfebe7d5bd485e97513; From 821bf1de45a1a084e2e11b1a2308777434194bfe · fixed in fa8a2f3be78e4585996bcf4c15e4504441a4c7a0; From 821bf1de45a1a084e2e11b1a2308777434194bfe · fixed in 5c20311d76cbaeb7ed2ecf9c8b8322f8fc4a7ae3

  • Linux Linux

    5.2

  • KernelLinux

    From 5.2.0 · fixed in 5.10.258; From 5.11.0 · fixed in 5.15.86; From 5.16.0 · fixed in 6.0.16; From 6.1.0 · fixed in 6.1.2

References 5

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