Description

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

RDMA/mlx5: Move events notifier registration to be after device registration

Move pkey change work initialization and cleanup from device resources
stage to notifier stage, since this is the stage which handles this work
events.

Fix a race between the device deregistration and pkey change work by moving
MLX5_IB_STAGE_DEVICE_NOTIFIER to be after MLX5_IB_STAGE_IB_REG in order to
ensure that the notifier is deregistered before the device during cleanup.
Which ensures there are no works that are being executed after the
device has already unregistered which can cause the panic below.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 1 PID: 630071 Comm: kworker/1:2 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W OE --------- --- 5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS 090008 02/27/2023
Workqueue: events pkey_change_handler [mlx5_ib]
RIP: 0010:setup_qp+0x38/0x1f0 [mlx5_ib]
Code: ee 41 54 45 31 e4 55 89 f5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 20 8b 77 08 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 44 24 18 48 8b 07 48 8d 4c 24 16 <4c> 8b 38 49 8b 87 80 0b 00 00 4c 89 ff 48 8b 80 08 05 00 00 8b 40
RSP: 0018:ffffbcc54068be20 EFLAGS: 00010282
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff954054494128 RCX: ffffbcc54068be36
RDX: ffff954004934000 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff954054494128
RBP: 0000000000000023 R08: ffff954001be2c20 R09: 000000000000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-53224

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (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/921fcf2971a1e8d3b904ba2c2905b96f4ec3d4ad
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/542bd62b7a7f37182c9ef192c2bd25d118c144e4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b0acf6a94c31efa43fce4edc22413a3390f9c05
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ede132a5cf559f3ab35a4c28bac4f4a6c20334d8

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