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Tracker / CVE-2024-50001

CVE-2024-50001

High 7.8

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: Fix error path in multi-packet WQE transmit Remove the erroneous unmap in case no DMA mapping was established The multi-packet WQE transmit code attempts to obtain a DMA mapping for the skb. This could fail, e.g. under memory pressure, when the IOMMU driver just can't allocate more memory for page tables. While the code tries to handle this in the path below the err_unmap label it erroneously unmaps one entry from the sq's FIFO list of active mappings. Since the current map attempt failed this unmap is removing some random DMA mapping that might still be required. If the PCI function now presents that IOVA, the IOMMU may assumes a rogue DMA access and e.g. on s390 puts the PCI function in error state. The erroneous behavior was seen in a stress-test environment that created memory pressure.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · 5.10 → 5.10.227
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.168
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.113
linux linux_kernel · 6.11 → 6.11.3
linux linux_kernel · 6.2 → 6.6.55
linux linux_kernel · 6.7 → 6.10.14

Analysis

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