CVE-2021-47261 (GCVE-0-2021-47261)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-21 14:19 – Updated: 2026-08-05 08:47
VLAI
Title
IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: IB/mlx5: Fix initializing CQ fragments buffer The function init_cq_frag_buf() can be called to initialize the current CQ fragments buffer cq->buf, or the temporary cq->resize_buf that is filled during CQ resize operation. However, the offending commit started to use function get_cqe() for getting the CQEs, the issue with this change is that get_cqe() always returns CQEs from cq->buf, which leads us to initialize the wrong buffer, and in case of enlarging the CQ we try to access elements beyond the size of the current cq->buf and eventually hit a kernel panic. [exception RIP: init_cq_frag_buf+103] [ffff9f799ddcbcd8] mlx5_ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc0835d60 [mlx5_ib] [ffff9f799ddcbdb0] ib_resize_cq at ffffffffc05270df [ib_core] [ffff9f799ddcbdc0] llt_rdma_setup_qp at ffffffffc0a6a712 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbe10] llt_rdma_cc_event_action at ffffffffc0a6b411 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbe98] llt_rdma_client_conn_thread at ffffffffc0a6bb75 [llt] [ffff9f799ddcbec8] kthread at ffffffffa66c5da1 [ffff9f799ddcbf50] ret_from_fork_nospec_begin at ffffffffa6d95ddd Fix it by getting the needed CQE by calling mlx5_frag_buf_get_wqe() that takes the correct source buffer as a parameter.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Linux Linux Affected: 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb , < 1ec2dcd680c71d0d36fa25638b327a468babd5c9 (git)
Affected: 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb , < e3ecd9c09fcc10cf6b2bc67e2990c397c40a8c26 (git)
Affected: 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb , < 91f7fdc4cc10542ca1045c06aad23365f0d067e0 (git)
Affected: 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb , < 3e670c54eda238cb8a1ea93538a79ae89285c1c4 (git)
Affected: 388ca8be00370db132464e27f745b8a0add19fcb , < 2ba0aa2feebda680ecfc3c552e867cf4d1b05a3a (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.17
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.17 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.19.195 , ≤ 4.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.4.126 , ≤ 5.4.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.10.44 , ≤ 5.10.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.12.11 , ≤ 5.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.13 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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