Bug 2330344 (CVE-2024-53138) - CVE-2024-53138 kernel: net/mlx5e: kTLS, Fix incorrect page refcounting
Summary: CVE-2024-53138 kernel: net/mlx5e: kTLS, Fix incorrect page refcounting
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-53138
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Depends On: 2330500
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Reported: 2024-12-04 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-12-05 04:59 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-12-04 15:01:45 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5e: kTLS, Fix incorrect page refcounting

The kTLS tx handling code is using a mix of get_page() and
page_ref_inc() APIs to increment the page reference. But on the release
path (mlx5e_ktls_tx_handle_resync_dump_comp()), only put_page() is used.

This is an issue when using pages from large folios: the get_page()
references are stored on the folio page while the page_ref_inc()
references are stored directly in the given page. On release the folio
page will be dereferenced too many times.

This was found while doing kTLS testing with sendfile() + ZC when the
served file was read from NFS on a kernel with NFS large folios support
(commit 49b29a573da8 ("nfs: add support for large folios")).

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-12-05 04:31:27 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024120452-CVE-2024-53138-1849@gregkh/T


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