Bug 2300481 (CVE-2024-41085)

Summary: CVE-2024-41085 kernel: cxl/mem: Fix no cxl_nvd during pmem region auto-assembling
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 16:20:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

cxl/mem: Fix no cxl_nvd during pmem region auto-assembling

When CXL subsystem is auto-assembling a pmem region during cxl
endpoint port probing, always hit below calltrace.

 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000078
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 RIP: 0010:cxl_pmem_region_probe+0x22e/0x360 [cxl_pmem]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __die+0x24/0x70
  ? page_fault_oops+0x82/0x160
  ? do_user_addr_fault+0x65/0x6b0
  ? exc_page_fault+0x7d/0x170
  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30
  ? cxl_pmem_region_probe+0x22e/0x360 [cxl_pmem]
  ? cxl_pmem_region_probe+0x1ac/0x360 [cxl_pmem]
  cxl_bus_probe+0x1b/0x60 [cxl_core]
  really_probe+0x173/0x410
  ? __pfx___device_attach_driver+0x10/0x10
  __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x170
  driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
  __device_attach_driver+0x90/0x120
  bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xe0
  __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
  bus_probe_device+0x90/0xa0
  device_add+0x51c/0x710
  devm_cxl_add_pmem_region+0x1b5/0x380 [cxl_core]
  cxl_bus_probe+0x1b/0x60 [cxl_core]

The cxl_nvd of the memdev needs to be available during the pmem region
probe. Currently the cxl_nvd is registered after the endpoint port probe.
The endpoint probe, in the case of autoassembly of regions, can cause a
pmem region probe requiring the not yet available cxl_nvd. Adjust the
sequence so this dependency is met.

This requires adding a port parameter to cxl_find_nvdimm_bridge() that
can be used to query the ancestor root port. The endpoint port is not
yet available, but will share a common ancestor with its parent, so
start the query from there instead.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 15:13:05 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072951-CVE-2024-41085-9bbd@gregkh/T

Comment 2 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 15:13:25 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301666]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-11-12 09:37:19 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:9315 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:9315