Bug 2320245 (CVE-2024-47748)

Summary: CVE-2024-47748 kernel: vhost_vdpa: assign irq bypass producer token correctly
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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A use-after-free flaw was found in drivers/vhost/vdpa.c in the Linux kernel.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-10-21 13:05:06 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vhost_vdpa: assign irq bypass producer token correctly

We used to call irq_bypass_unregister_producer() in
vhost_vdpa_setup_vq_irq() which is problematic as we don't know if the
token pointer is still valid or not.

Actually, we use the eventfd_ctx as the token so the life cycle of the
token should be bound to the VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL instead of
vhost_vdpa_setup_vq_irq() which could be called by set_status().

Fixing this by setting up irq bypass producer's token when handling
VHOST_SET_VRING_CALL and un-registering the producer before calling
vhost_vring_ioctl() to prevent a possible use after free as eventfd
could have been released in vhost_vring_ioctl(). And such registering
and unregistering will only be done if DRIVER_OK is set.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2025-05-13 08:29:18 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:6966 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:6966