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      <title>CVE-2024-50042 — ice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF</title>
      <link>https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/cve-2024-50042</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Increasing MSI-X value on a VF leads to invalid memory operations. This
is caused by not reallocating some arrays.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reproducer:
  modprobe ice
  echo 0 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
  echo 1 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_numvfs
  echo 17 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$VF0_PCI/sriov_vf_msix_count&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Default MSI-X is 16, so 17 and above triggers this issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KASAN reports:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8888b937d180 by task bash/28433
  (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call Trace:
   (...)
   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   kasan_report+0xed/0x120
   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x3360/0x4770 [ice]
   ? mutex_unlock+0x83/0xd0
   ? __pfx_ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x10/0x10 [ice]
   ? __pfx_ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr+0x10/0x10 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
   ice_vf_reconfig_vsi+0x114/0x210 [ice]
   ice_sriov_set_msix_vec_count+0x3d0/0x960 [ice]
   sriov_vf_msix_count_store+0x21c/0x300
   (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allocated by task 28201:
   (...)
   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x1c8e/0x4770 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_setup+0x179/0xa30 [ice]
   ice_sriov_configure+0xcaa/0x1520 [ice]
   sriov_numvfs_store+0x212/0x390
   (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To fix it, use ice_vsi_rebuild() instead of ice_vf_reconfig_vsi(). This
causes the required ar…&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Affected:&lt;/strong&gt; Linux&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;ice: Fix increasing MSI-X on VF&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Increasing MSI-X value on a VF leads to invalid memory operations. This
is caused by not reallocating some arrays.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reproducer:
  modprobe ice
  echo 0 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_drivers_autoprobe
  echo 1 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$PF_PCI/sriov_numvfs
  echo 17 &amp;gt; /sys/bus/pci/devices/$VF0_PCI/sriov_vf_msix_count&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Default MSI-X is 16, so 17 and above triggers this issue.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;KASAN reports:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff8888b937d180 by task bash/28433
  (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call Trace:
   (...)
   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   kasan_report+0xed/0x120
   ? ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_alloc_ring_stats+0x38d/0x4b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x3360/0x4770 [ice]
   ? mutex_unlock+0x83/0xd0
   ? __pfx_ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x10/0x10 [ice]
   ? __pfx_ice_remove_vsi_lkup_fltr+0x10/0x10 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
   ice_vf_reconfig_vsi+0x114/0x210 [ice]
   ice_sriov_set_msix_vec_count+0x3d0/0x960 [ice]
   sriov_vf_msix_count_store+0x21c/0x300
   (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Allocated by task 28201:
   (...)
   ice_vsi_cfg_def+0x1c8e/0x4770 [ice]
   ice_vsi_cfg+0x7f/0x3b0 [ice]
   ice_vsi_setup+0x179/0xa30 [ice]
   ice_sriov_configure+0xcaa/0x1520 [ice]
   sriov_numvfs_store+0x212/0x390
   (...)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To fix it, use ice_vsi_rebuild() instead of ice_vf_reconfig_vsi(). This
causes the required ar…&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded>
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