Description

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

IB/mlx5: Fix UMR pd cleanup on error flow of driver init

The cited commit moves the pd allocation from function
mlx5r_umr_resource_cleanup() to a new function mlx5r_umr_cleanup().
So the fix in commit [1] is broken. In error flow, will hit panic [2].

Fix it by checking pd pointer to avoid panic if it is NULL;

[1] RDMA/mlx5: Fix UMR cleanup on error flow of driver init
[2]
[ 347.567063] infiniband mlx5_0: Couldn't register device with driver model
[ 347.591382] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020
[ 347.593438] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 347.595176] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 347.596962] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 347.601361] RIP: 0010:ib_dealloc_pd_user+0x12/0xc0 [ib_core]
[ 347.604171] RSP: 0018:ffff888106293b10 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 347.604834] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000e RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 347.605672] RDX: ffff888106293ad0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
[ 347.606529] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff888106293ae0 R09: ffff888106293ae0
[ 347.607379] R10: 0000000000000a06 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 347.608224] R13: ffffffffa0704dc0 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 0000000000000001
[ 347.609067] FS: 00007fdc720cd9c0(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 347.610094] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 347.610727] CR2: 0000000000000020 CR3: 000000010...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-47694

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.2% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-02 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-47694
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/99e2de5942b0390ddc24efada71edc6593e23f05
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/112e6e83a894260cc7efe79a1fc47d4d51461742

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