CVE-2024-53229 (Moderate severity, published 2024-12-26)
CVSS score: 7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/rxe: Fix the qp flush warnings in req

When the qp is in error state, the status of WQEs in the queue should be
set to error. Or else the following will appear.

[  920.617269] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 21 at drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_comp.c:756 rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.617744] Modules linked in: rnbd_client(O) rtrs_client(O) rtrs_core(O) rdma_ucm rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm crc32_generic rdma_rxe ip6_udp_tunnel udp_tunnel ib_uverbs ib_core loop brd null_blk ipv6
[  920.618516] CPU: 1 PID: 21 Comm: ksoftirqd/1 Tainted: G           O       6.1.113-storage+ #65
[  920.618986] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
[  920.619396] RIP: 0010:rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.619658] Code: 0f b6 84 24 3a 02 00 00 41 89 84 24 44 04 00 00 e9 2a f7 ff ff 39 ca bb 03 00 00 00 b8 0e 00 00 00 48 0f 45 d8 e9 15 f7 ff ff <0f> 0b e9 cb f8 ff ff 41 bf f5 ff ff ff e9 08 f8 ff ff 49 8d bc 24
[  920.620482] RSP: 0018:ffff97b7c00bbc38 EFLAGS: 00010246
[  920.620817] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 0000000000000008
[  920.621183] RDX: ffff960dc396ebc0 RSI: 0000000000005400 RDI: ffff960dc4e2fbac
[  920.621548] RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffffffac406450
[  920.621884] R10: ffffffffac4060c0 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff960dc4e2f800
[  920.622254] R13: ffff960dc4e2f928 R14: ffff97b7c029c580 R15: 0000000000000000
[  920.622609] FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff960ef7d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[  920.622979] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[  920.623245] CR2: 00007fa056965e90 CR3: 00000001107f1000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[  920.623680] Call Trace:
[  920.623815]  <TASK>
[  920.623933]  ? __warn+0x79/0xc0
[  920.624116]  ? rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.624356]  ? report_bug+0xfb/0x150
[  920.624594]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x60
[  920.624796]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
[  920.624976]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
[  920.625203]  ? rxe_completer+0x989/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.625474]  ? rxe_completer+0x329/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.625749]  rxe_do_task+0x80/0x110 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.626037]  rxe_requester+0x625/0xde0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.626310]  ? rxe_cq_post+0xe2/0x180 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.626583]  ? do_complete+0x18d/0x220 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.626812]  ? rxe_completer+0x1a3/0xcc0 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.627050]  rxe_do_task+0x80/0x110 [rdma_rxe]
[  920.627285]  tasklet_action_common.constprop.0+0xa4/0x120
[  920.627522]  handle_softirqs+0xc2/0x250
[  920.627728]  ? sort_range+0x20/0x20
[  920.627942]  run_ksoftirqd+0x1f/0x30
[  920.628158]  smpboot_thread_fn+0xc7/0x1b0
[  920.628334]  kthread+0xd6/0x100
[  920.628504]  ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[  920.628709]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[  920.628892]  </TASK>
Statement: The bug can happen only when InfiniBand RDMA transport over the Linux network stack being used. RDMA provides access between the main memory of two computers without involving an operating system, cache, or storage. By using RDMA, data transfers with high-throughput, low-latency, and low CPU utilization. And this bug allows one computer in such configuration to potentially crash the other. The security impact is limited.
Mitigation: To mitigate this issue, prevent module rdma_rxe from being loaded. Please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/41278 for how to blacklist a kernel module to prevent it from loading automatically.