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Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-core package, versions *

Severity

 Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-KERNELCORE-6333316
  • published13 Mar 2024
  • disclosed29 Feb 2024
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Introduced: 29 Feb 2024

CVE-2023-52484  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:9 kernel-core.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-core package and not the kernel-core package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

iommu/arm-smmu-v3: Fix soft lockup triggered by arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range

When running an SVA case, the following soft lockup is triggered:

watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#244 stuck for 26s! pstate: 83400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 lr : arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x150/0xa50 sp : ffff8000d83ef290 x29: ffff8000d83ef290 x28: 000000003b9aca00 x27: 0000000000000000 x26: ffff8000d83ef3c0 x25: da86c0812194a0e8 x24: 0000000000000000 x23: 0000000000000040 x22: ffff8000d83ef340 x21: ffff0000c63980c0 x20: 0000000000000001 x19: ffff0000c6398080 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: ffff3000b4a3bbb0 x14: ffff3000b4a30888 x13: ffff3000b4a3cf60 x12: 0000000000000000 x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc08120e4d6bc x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000048cfa x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 000000000000000a x2 : 0000000080000000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000001 Call trace: arm_smmu_cmdq_issue_cmdlist+0x178/0xa50 __arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range+0x118/0x254 arm_smmu_tlb_inv_range_asid+0x6c/0x130 arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range+0xa0/0xa4 __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end+0x88/0x120 unmap_vmas+0x194/0x1e0 unmap_region+0xb4/0x144 do_mas_align_munmap+0x290/0x490 do_mas_munmap+0xbc/0x124 __vm_munmap+0xa8/0x19c __arm64_sys_munmap+0x28/0x50 invoke_syscall+0x78/0x11c el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x58/0x1c0 do_el0_svc+0x34/0x60 el0_svc+0x2c/0xd4 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x114/0x140 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8

Note that since 6.6-rc1 the arm_smmu_mm_invalidate_range above is renamed to "arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs", yet the problem remains.

The commit 06ff87bae8d3 ("arm64: mm: remove unused functions and variable protoypes") fixed a similar lockup on the CPU MMU side. Yet, it can occur to SMMU too, since arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs() is called typically next to MMU tlb flush function, e.g. tlb_flush_mmu_tlbonly { tlb_flush { __flush_tlb_range { // check MAX_TLBI_OPS } } mmu_notifier_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs { arm_smmu_mm_arch_invalidate_secondary_tlbs { // does not check MAX_TLBI_OPS } } }

Clone a CMDQ_MAX_TLBI_OPS from the MAX_TLBI_OPS in tlbflush.h, since in an SVA case SMMU uses the CPU page table, so it makes sense to align with the tlbflush code. Then, replace per-page TLBI commands with a single per-asid TLBI command, if the request size hits this threshold.

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