Bug 2355436 (CVE-2023-53029)

Summary: CVE-2023-53029 kernel: octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context on rt
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:01:27 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

octeontx2-pf: Fix the use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context on rt

The commit 4af1b64f80fb ("octeontx2-pf: Fix lmtst ID used in aura
free") uses the get/put_cpu() to protect the usage of percpu pointer
in ->aura_freeptr() callback, but it also unnecessarily disable the
preemption for the blockable memory allocation. The commit 87b93b678e95
("octeontx2-pf: Avoid use of GFP_KERNEL in atomic context") tried to
fix these sleep inside atomic warnings. But it only fix the one for
the non-rt kernel. For the rt kernel, we still get the similar warnings
like below.
  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
  in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
  preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
  RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
  3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
   #0: ffff800009fc5fe8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_lock+0x24/0x30
   #1: ffff000100c276c0 (&mbox->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: otx2_init_hw_resources+0x8c/0x3a4
   #2: ffffffbfef6537e0 (&cpu_rcache->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: alloc_iova_fast+0x1ac/0x2ac
  Preemption disabled at:
  [<ffff800008b1908c>] otx2_rq_aura_pool_init+0x14c/0x284
  CPU: 20 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.2.0-rc3-rt1-yocto-preempt-rt #1
  Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe8/0xf4
   show_stack+0x20/0x30
   dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
   dump_stack+0x18/0x34
   __might_resched+0x188/0x224
   rt_spin_lock+0x64/0x110
   alloc_iova_fast+0x1ac/0x2ac
   iommu_dma_alloc_iova+0xd4/0x110
   __iommu_dma_map+0x80/0x144
   iommu_dma_map_page+0xe8/0x260
   dma_map_page_attrs+0xb4/0xc0
   __otx2_alloc_rbuf+0x90/0x150
   otx2_rq_aura_pool_init+0x1c8/0x284
   otx2_init_hw_resources+0xe4/0x3a4
   otx2_open+0xf0/0x610
   __dev_open+0x104/0x224
   __dev_change_flags+0x1e4/0x274
   dev_change_flags+0x2c/0x7c
   ic_open_devs+0x124/0x2f8
   ip_auto_config+0x180/0x42c
   do_one_initcall+0x90/0x4dc
   do_basic_setup+0x10c/0x14c
   kernel_init_freeable+0x10c/0x13c
   kernel_init+0x2c/0x140
   ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Of course, we can shuffle the get/put_cpu() to only wrap the invocation
of ->aura_freeptr() as what commit 87b93b678e95 does. But there are only
two ->aura_freeptr() callbacks, otx2_aura_freeptr() and
cn10k_aura_freeptr(). There is no usage of perpcu variable in the
otx2_aura_freeptr() at all, so the get/put_cpu() seems redundant to it.
We can move the get/put_cpu() into the corresponding callback which
really has the percpu variable usage and avoid the sprinkling of
get/put_cpu() in several places.