Bug 2420330 (CVE-2022-50679) - CVE-2022-50679 kernel: i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak
Summary: CVE-2022-50679 kernel: i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50679
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-12-09 02:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-12 19:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-12-09 02:03:21 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak

During reallocation of RX buffers, new DMA mappings are created for
those buffers.

steps for reproduction:
while :
do
for ((i=0; i<=8160; i=i+32))
do
ethtool -G enp130s0f0 rx $i tx $i
sleep 0.5
ethtool -g enp130s0f0
done
done

This resulted in crash:
i40e 0000:01:00.1: Unable to allocate memory for the Rx descriptor ring, size=65536
Driver BUG
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:141 xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x43/0x50
Call Trace:
i40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]
i40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]
ethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150
genl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160
? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0
genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90
? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160
netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230
netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0
sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50
__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160
? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0
? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
RIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b
Missing register, driver bug
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:119 xdp_rxq_info_unreg_mem_model+0x69/0x140
Call Trace:
xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x1e/0x50
i40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e]
i40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e]
ethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150
genl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160
? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0
genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90
? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160
netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230
netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0
sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50
__sys_sendto+0xee/0x160
? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0
? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0
__x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca
RIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b

This was caused because of new buffers with different RX ring count should
substitute older ones, but those buffers were freed in
i40e_configure_rx_ring and reallocated again with i40e_alloc_rx_bi,
thus kfree on rx_bi caused leak of already mapped DMA.

Fix this by reallocating ZC with rx_bi_zc struct when BPF program loads. Additionally
reallocate back to rx_bi when BPF program unloads.

If BPF program is loaded/unloaded and XSK pools are created, reallocate
RX queues accordingly in XSP_SETUP_XSK_POOL handler.


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