Description

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

RDMA/rxe: Remove the direct link to net_device

The similar patch in siw is in the link:
https://git.kernel.org/rdma/rdma/c/16b87037b48889

This problem also occurred in RXE. The following analyze this problem.
In the following Call Traces:
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BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in dev_get_flags+0x188/0x1d0 net/core/dev.c:8782
Read of size 4 at addr ffff8880554640b0 by task kworker/1:4/5295

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 5295 Comm: kworker/1:4 Not tainted
6.12.0-rc3-syzkaller-00399-g9197b73fd7bb #0
Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine,
BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Workqueue: infiniband ib_cache_event_task
Call Trace:

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:601
dev_get_flags+0x188/0x1d0 net/core/dev.c:8782
rxe_query_port+0x12d/0x260 drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_verbs.c:60
__ib_query_port drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2111 [inline]
ib_query_port+0x168/0x7d0 drivers/infiniband/core/device.c:2143
ib_cache_update+0x1a9/0xb80 drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:1494
ib_cache_event_task+0xf3/0x1e0 drivers/infiniband/core/cache.c:1568
process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline]
process_scheduled_works+0xa65/0x1850 kernel/workqueue.c:3310
worker_thread+0x870/0xd30 kernel/workqueue.c:3391
kthread+0x...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-57795

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.5% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-13 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f6f54e6a6863131442b40e14d1792b090c7ce21
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2ac5415022d16d63d912a39a06f32f1f51140261

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