CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47554
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-05-24
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vdpa_sim: avoid putting an uninitialized iova_domain
The system will crash if we put an uninitialized iova_domain, this
could happen when an error occurs before initializing the iova_domain
in vdpasim_create().
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
...
RIP: 0010:__cpuhp_state_remove_instance+0x96/0x1c0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
put_iova_domain+0x29/0x220
vdpasim_free+0xd1/0x120 [vdpa_sim]
vdpa_release_dev+0x21/0x40 [vdpa]
device_release+0x33/0x90
kobject_release+0x63/0x160
vdpasim_create+0x127/0x2a0 [vdpa_sim]
vdpasim_net_dev_add+0x7d/0xfe [vdpa_sim_net]
vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0xe1/0x1a0 [vdpa]
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x112/0x140
genl_rcv_msg+0xdf/0x1d0
...
So we must make sure the iova_domain is already initialized before
put it.
In addition, we may get the following warning in this case:
WARNING: ... drivers/iommu/iova.c:344 iova_cache_put+0x58/0x70
So we must make sure the iova_cache_put() is invoked only if the
iova_cache_get() is already invoked. Let's fix it together.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.13 < 5.15.6)
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb93ce4b150dde79f58e34103cbd1fe829796649 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d58ac67e63727aa45a4a26185876f598e8b3dd Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bb93ce4b150dde79f58e34103cbd1fe829796649 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4d58ac67e63727aa45a4a26185876f598e8b3dd Patch