Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/pseries/iommu: IOMMU table is not initialized for kdump over SR-IOV

When kdump kernel tries to copy dump data over SR-IOV, LPAR panics due
to NULL pointer exception:

Kernel attempted to read user page (0) - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000000
Faulting instruction address: 0xc000000020847ad4
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in: mlx5_core(+) vmx_crypto pseries_wdt papr_scm libnvdimm mlxfw tls psample sunrpc fuse overlay squashfs loop
CPU: 12 PID: 315 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 6.4.0-Test102+ #12
Hardware name: IBM,9080-HEX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NH1060_008) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP: c000000020847ad4 LR: c00000002083b2dc CTR: 00000000006cd18c
REGS: c000000029162ca0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (6.4.0-Test102+)
MSR: 800000000280b033 CR: 48288244 XER: 00000008
CFAR: c00000002083b2d8 DAR: 0000000000000000 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 1
...
NIP _find_next_zero_bit+0x24/0x110
LR bitmap_find_next_zero_area_off+0x5c/0xe0
Call Trace:
dev_printk_emit+0x38/0x48 (unreliable)
iommu_area_alloc+0xc4/0x180
iommu_range_alloc+0x1e8/0x580
iommu_alloc+0x60/0x130
iommu_alloc_coherent+0x158/0x2b0
dma_iommu_alloc_coherent+0x3c/0x50
dma_alloc_attrs+0x170/0x1f0
mlx5_cmd_init+0xc0/0x760 [mlx5_core]
...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26745

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7eb95e0af5c9c2e6fad50356eaf32d216d0e7bc3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4d1e4b1513d975961de7bb4f75e450a92d65ebf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5da6d306f315344af1ca2eff4bd9b10b130f0c28
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09a3c1e46142199adcee372a420b024b4fc61051

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