CVE: CVE-2021-47563
Published: 2024-05-24
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ice: avoid bpf_prog refcount underflow

Ice driver has the routines for managing XDP resources that are shared
between ndo_bpf op and VSI rebuild flow. The latter takes place for
example when user changes queue count on an interface via ethtool's
set_channels().

There is an issue around the bpf_prog refcounting when VSI is being
rebuilt - since ice_prepare_xdp_rings() is called with vsi->xdp_prog as
an argument that is used later on by ice_vsi_assign_bpf_prog(), same
bpf_prog pointers are swapped with each other. Then it is also
interpreted as an 'old_prog' which in turn causes us to call
bpf_prog_put on it that will decrement its refcount.

Below splat can be interpreted in a way that due to zero refcount of a
bpf_prog it is wiped out from the system while kernel still tries to
refer to it:

[  481.069429] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc9000640f038
[  481.077390] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[  481.083335] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[  481.089276] PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 1001cb067 PMD 106d2b067 PTE 0
[  481.097141] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[  481.101980] CPU: 12 PID: 3339 Comm: sudo Tainted: G           OE     5.15.0-rc5+ #1
[  481.110840] Hardware name: Intel Corp. GRANTLEY/GRANTLEY, BIOS GRRFCRB1.86B.0276.D07[PII_REDACTED] 05/19/2016
[  481.122021] RIP: 0010:dev_xdp_prog_id+0x25/0x40
[  481.127265] Code: 80 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 89 f6 48 c1 e6 04 48 01 fe 48 8b 86 98 08 00 00 48 85 c0 74 13 48 8b 50 18 31 c0 48 85 d2 74 07 <48> 8b 42 38 8b 40 20 c3 48 8b 96 90 08 00 00 eb e8 66 2e 0f 1f 84
[  481.148991] RSP: 0018:ffffc90007b63868 EFLAGS: 00010286
[  481.155034] RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.163278] RDX: ffffc9000640f000 RSI: ffff[PII_REDACTED]10 RDI: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00
[  481.171527] RBP: ffff888107af7d00 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffff88810db5f6e0
[  481.179776] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: ffff8890885b9988 R12: ffff88810db5f4bc
[  481.188026] R13: [PII_REDACTED] R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.196276] FS:  00007f5466d5bec0(0000) GS:ffff88903fb00000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[  481.205633] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.212279] CR2: ffffc9000640f038 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]29c006 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]3706e0
[  481.220530] DR0: [PII_REDACTED] DR1: [PII_REDACTED] DR2: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.228771] DR3: [PII_REDACTED] DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.237029] Call Trace:
[  481.239856]  rtnl_fill_ifinfo+0x768/0x12e0
[  481.244602]  rtnl_dump_ifinfo+0x525/0x650
[  481.249246]  ? __alloc_skb+0xa5/0x280
[  481.253484]  netlink_dump+0x168/0x3c0
[  481.257725]  netlink_recvmsg+0x21e/0x3e0
[  481.262263]  ____sys_recvmsg+0x87/0x170
[  481.266707]  ? __might_fault+0x20/0x30
[  481.271046]  ? _copy_from_user+0x66/0xa0
[  481.275591]  ? iovec_from_user+0xf6/0x1c0
[  481.280226]  ___sys_recvmsg+0x82/0x100
[  481.284566]  ? sock_sendmsg+0x5e/0x60
[  481.288791]  ? __sys_sendto+0xee/0x150
[  481.293129]  __sys_recvmsg+0x56/0xa0
[  481.297267]  do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
[  481.301395]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
[  481.307238] RIP: 0033:0x7f5466f39617
[  481.311373] Code: 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bd 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 2f 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 89 54 24 1c 48 89 74 24 10
[  481.342944] RSP: 002b:00007ffedc7f4308 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX:[PII_REDACTED]00002f
[  481.361783] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffedc7f5460 RCX: 00007f5466f39617
[  481.380278] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: 00007ffedc7f5360 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
[  481.398500] RBP: 00007ffedc7f53f0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: 000055d556f04d50
[  481.416463] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007ffedc7f5360
[  481.434131] R13: 00007ffedc7f5350 R14: 00007ffedc7f5344 R15:[PII_REDACTED]000e98
[  481.451520] Modules linked in: ice
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1f10b09ccc832698ef4624a6ab9a213b6ccbda76; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e65a8707b4cd756d26d246bb2b9fab06eebafac1; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f65ee535df775a13a1046c0a0b2d72db342f8a5b