CVE-2022-48941

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Race Condition in VF Reset and Removal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix concurrent reset and removal of VFs Commit c503e63200c6 ("ice: Stop processing VF messages during teardown") introduced a driver state flag, ICE_VF_DEINIT_IN_PROGRESS, which is intended to prevent some issues with concurrently handling messages from VFs while tearing down the VFs. This change was motivated by crashes caused while tearing down and bringing up VFs in rapid succession. It turns out that the fix actually introduces issues with the VF driver caused because the PF no longer responds to any messages sent by the VF during its .remove routine. This results in the VF potentially removing its DMA memory before the PF has shut down the device queues. Additionally, the fix doesn't actually resolve concurrency issues within the ice driver. It is possible for a VF to initiate a reset just prior to the ice driver removing VFs. This can result in the remove task concurrently operating while the VF is being reset. This results in similar memory corruption and panics purportedly fixed by that commit. Fix this concurrency at its root by protecting both the reset and removal flows using the existing VF cfg_lock. This ensures that we cannot remove the VF while any outstanding critical tasks such as a virtchnl message or a reset are occurring. This locking change also fixes the root cause originally fixed by commit c503e63200c6 ("ice: Stop processing VF messages during teardown"), so we can simply revert it. Note that I kept these two changes together because simply reverting the original commit alone would leave the driver vulnerable to worse race conditions.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0016
EPSS Percentile 5.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (13)
linux/Kernel 5.14.0 - 5.15.26linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.16.12linux
Linux/Linux < 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.13.12 - 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.14
Linux/Linux 5.15.26 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.16.12 - 5.16.*
Linux/Linux 5.17
Linux/Linux 8a08142433624fd1088bc8c13639408cf4e1707c
Linux/Linux c503e63200c679e362afca7aca9d3dc63a0f45ed - 2a3e61de89bab6696aa28b70030eb119968c5586
... and 3 more
Published Aug 22, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026