cve/rejected/2024/CVE-2024-49993.mbox

From bippy-c9c4e1df01b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org>
Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-49993: iommu/vt-d: Fix potential lockup if qi_submit_sync called with 0 count

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

iommu/vt-d: Fix potential lockup if qi_submit_sync called with 0 count

If qi_submit_sync() is invoked with 0 invalidation descriptors (for
instance, for DMA draining purposes), we can run into a bug where a
submitting thread fails to detect the completion of invalidation_wait.
Subsequently, this led to a soft lockup. Currently, there is no impact
by this bug on the existing users because no callers are submitting
invalidations with 0 descriptors. This fix will enable future users
(such as DMA drain) calling qi_submit_sync() with 0 count.

Suppose thread T1 invokes qi_submit_sync() with non-zero descriptors, while
concurrently, thread T2 calls qi_submit_sync() with zero descriptors. Both
threads then enter a while loop, waiting for their respective descriptors
to complete. T1 detects its completion (i.e., T1's invalidation_wait status
changes to QI_DONE by HW) and proceeds to call reclaim_free_desc() to
reclaim all descriptors, potentially including adjacent ones of other
threads that are also marked as QI_DONE.

During this time, while T2 is waiting to acquire the qi->q_lock, the IOMMU
hardware may complete the invalidation for T2, setting its status to
QI_DONE. However, if T1's execution of reclaim_free_desc() frees T2's
invalidation_wait descriptor and changes its status to QI_FREE, T2 will
not observe the QI_DONE status for its invalidation_wait and will
indefinitely remain stuck.

This soft lockup does not occur when only non-zero descriptors are
submitted.In such cases, invalidation descriptors are interspersed among
wait descriptors with the status QI_IN_USE, acting as barriers. These
barriers prevent the reclaim code from mistakenly freeing descriptors
belonging to other submitters.

Considered the following example timeline:
	T1			T2
========================================
	ID1
	WD1
	while(WD1!=QI_DONE)
	unlock
				lock
	WD1=QI_DONE*		WD2
				while(WD2!=QI_DONE)
				unlock
	lock
	WD1==QI_DONE?
	ID1=QI_DONE		WD2=DONE*
	reclaim()
	ID1=FREE
	WD1=FREE
	WD2=FREE
	unlock
				soft lockup! T2 never sees QI_DONE in WD2

Where:
ID = invalidation descriptor
WD = wait descriptor
* Written by hardware

The root of the problem is that the descriptor status QI_DONE flag is used
for two conflicting purposes:
1. signal a descriptor is ready for reclaim (to be freed)
2. signal by the hardware that a wait descriptor is complete

The solution (in this patch) is state separation by using QI_FREE flag
for #1.

Once a thread's invalidation descriptors are complete, their status would
be set to QI_FREE. The reclaim_free_desc() function would then only
free descriptors marked as QI_FREE instead of those marked as
QI_DONE. This change ensures that T2 (from the previous example) will
correctly observe the completion of its invalidation_wait (marked as
QI_DONE).

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-49993 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Fixed in 5.10.227 with commit de9e7f687625
	Fixed in 5.15.168 with commit 8840dc73ac9e
	Fixed in 6.1.113 with commit e03f00aa4a6c
	Fixed in 6.6.55 with commit dfdbc5ba10fb
	Fixed in 6.10.14 with commit 07e4e92f84b7
	Fixed in 6.11.3 with commit 92ba5b014d54
	Fixed in 6.12-rc1 with commit 3cf74230c139

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-49993
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/iommu/intel/dmar.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de9e7f68762585f7532de8a06de9485bf39dbd38
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8840dc73ac9e1028291458ef1429ec3c2524ffec
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e03f00aa4a6c0c49c17857a4048f586636abdc32
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dfdbc5ba10fb792c9d6d12ba8cb6e465f97365ed
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07e4e92f84b7d3018b7064ef8d8438aeb54a2ca5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92ba5b014d5435dd7a1ee02a2c7f2a0e8fe06c36
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3cf74230c139f208b7fb313ae0054386eee31a81