Bug 1226608 (CVE-2024-38539)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-38539: kernel: RDMA/cma: Fix kmemleak in rdma_core observed during blktests nvme/rdma use siw
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: andrea.mattiazzo, gabriel.bertazi
Version: unspecified   
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Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/411402/
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Description SMASH SMASH 2024-06-20 12:11:25 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/cma: Fix kmemleak in rdma_core observed during blktests nvme/rdma use siw

When running blktests nvme/rdma, the following kmemleak issue will appear.

kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector initialized (mempool available:36041)
kmemleak: Automatic memory scanning thread started
kmemleak: 2 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
kmemleak: 8 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
kmemleak: 17 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
kmemleak: 4 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)

unreferenced object 0xffff88855da53400 (size 192):
  comm "rdma", pid 10630, jiffies 4296575922
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
    37 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 ff ff ff 1f 00 00 00  7...............
    10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff 10 34 a5 5d 85 88 ff ff  .4.].....4.]....
  backtrace (crc 47f66721):
    [<ffffffff911251bd>] kmalloc_trace+0x30d/0x3b0
    [<ffffffffc2640ff7>] alloc_gid_entry+0x47/0x380 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc2642206>] add_modify_gid+0x166/0x930 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc2643468>] ib_cache_update.part.0+0x6d8/0x910 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc2644e1a>] ib_cache_setup_one+0x24a/0x350 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc263949e>] ib_register_device+0x9e/0x3a0 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc2a3d389>] 0xffffffffc2a3d389
    [<ffffffffc2688cd8>] nldev_newlink+0x2b8/0x520 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc2645fe3>] rdma_nl_rcv_msg+0x2c3/0x520 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffffc264648c>]
rdma_nl_rcv_skb.constprop.0.isra.0+0x23c/0x3a0 [ib_core]
    [<ffffffff9270e7b5>] netlink_unicast+0x445/0x710
    [<ffffffff9270f1f1>] netlink_sendmsg+0x761/0xc40
    [<ffffffff9249db29>] __sys_sendto+0x3a9/0x420
    [<ffffffff9249dc8c>] __x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
    [<ffffffff92db0ad3>] do_syscall_64+0x93/0x180
    [<ffffffff92e00126>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x71/0x79

The root cause: rdma_put_gid_attr is not called when sgid_attr is set
to ERR_PTR(-ENODEV).

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-38539
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-38539.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3eb127dc408bf7959a4920d04d16ce10e863686a
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6564fc1818404254d1c9f7d75b403b4941516d26
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3a7fb93afd888793ef226e9665fbda98a95c48e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c0731832d3b7420cbadba6a7f334363bc8dfb15
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-38539
Comment 2 Andrea Mattiazzo 2024-06-24 13:52:44 UTC
All done, closing.