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High severity Unreviewed Published Jul 29, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Aug 8, 2024

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Patched versions

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Description

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

drm/i915/gt: Fix potential UAF by revoke of fence registers

CI has been sporadically reporting the following issue triggered by
igt@i915_selftest@live@hangcheck on ADL-P and similar machines:

<6> [414.049203] i915: Running intel_hangcheck_live_selftests/igt_reset_evict_fence
...
<6> [414.068804] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: submission enabled
<6> [414.068812] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] GT0: GUC: SLPC enabled
<3> [414.070354] Unable to pin Y-tiled fence; err:-4
<3> [414.071282] i915_vma_revoke_fence:301 GEM_BUG_ON(!i915_active_is_idle(&fence->active))
...
<4>[ 609.603992] ------------[ cut here ]------------
<2>[ 609.603995] kernel BUG at drivers/gpu/drm/i915/gt/intel_ggtt_fencing.c:301!
<4>[ 609.604003] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
<4>[ 609.604006] CPU: 0 PID: 268 Comm: kworker/u64:3 Tainted: G U W 6.9.0-CI_DRM_14785-g1ba62f8cea9c+ #1
<4>[ 609.604008] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Alder Lake Client Platform/AlderLake-P DDR4 RVP, BIOS RPLPFWI1.R00.4035.A00.2301200723 01/20/2023
<4>[ 609.604010] Workqueue: i915 __i915_gem_free_work [i915]
<4>[ 609.604149] RIP: 0010:i915_vma_revoke_fence+0x187/0x1f0 [i915]
...
<4>[ 609.604271] Call Trace:
<4>[ 609.604273]
...
<4>[ 609.604716] __i915_vma_evict+0x2e9/0x550 [i915]
<4>[ 609.604852] __i915_vma_unbind+0x7c/0x160 [i915]
<4>[ 609.604977] force_unbind+0x24/0xa0 [i915]
<4>[ 609.605098] i915_vma_destroy+0x2f/0xa0 [i915]
<4>[ 609.605210] __i915_gem_object_pages_fini+0x51/0x2f0 [i915]
<4>[ 609.605330] __i915_gem_free_objects.isra.0+0x6a/0xc0 [i915]
<4>[ 609.605440] process_scheduled_works+0x351/0x690
...

In the past, there were similar failures reported by CI from other IGT
tests, observed on other platforms.

Before commit 63baf4f3d587 ("drm/i915/gt: Only wait for GPU activity
before unbinding a GGTT fence"), i915_vma_revoke_fence() was waiting for
idleness of vma->active via fence_update(). That commit introduced
vma->fence->active in order for the fence_update() to be able to wait
selectively on that one instead of vma->active since only idleness of
fence registers was needed. But then, another commit 0d86ee35097a
("drm/i915/gt: Make fence revocation unequivocal") replaced the call to
fence_update() in i915_vma_revoke_fence() with only fence_write(), and
also added that GEM_BUG_ON(!i915_active_is_idle(&fence->active)) in front.
No justification was provided on why we might then expect idleness of
vma->fence->active without first waiting on it.

The issue can be potentially caused by a race among revocation of fence
registers on one side and sequential execution of signal callbacks invoked
on completion of a request that was using them on the other, still
processed in parallel to revocation of those fence registers. Fix it by
waiting for idleness of vma->fence->active in i915_vma_revoke_fence().

(cherry picked from commit 24bb052d3dd499c5956abad5f7d8e4fd07da7fb1)

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 29, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 29, 2024
Last updated Aug 8, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-41092

GHSA ID

GHSA-6fvv-3vw6-wp7c

Source code

No known source code

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