Vulnerability · Published May 22, 2024 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2021-47449ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix locking for Tx timestamp tracking flush Commit 4dd0d5c33c3e ("ice: add lock around Tx timestamp tracker flush") added a lock around the Tx timestamp tracker flow which is used to cleanup any left over SKBs and prepare for device removal. This lock is problematic because it is being held around a call to ice_clear_phy_tstamp. The clear function takes a mutex to send a PHY write command to firmware. This could lead to a deadlock if the mutex actually sleeps, and causes the following warning on a kernel with preemption debugging enabled: [ 715.419426] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:573 [ 715.427900] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 3100, name: rmmod [ 715.435652] INFO: lockdep is turned off. [ 715.439591] Preemption disabled at: [ 715.439594] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 [ 715.446678] CPU: 52 PID: 3100 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G W OE 5.15.0-rc4+ #42 bdd7ec3018e725f159ca0d372ce8c2c0e784891c [ 715.458058] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600STQ/S2600STQ, BIOS SE5C620.86B.02.01.0010.010620200716 01/06/2020 [ 715.468483] Call Trace: [ 715.470940] dump_stack_lvl+0x6a/0x9a [ 715.474613] ___might_sleep.cold+0x224/0x26a [ 715.478895] __mutex_lock+0xb3/0x1440 [ 715.482569] ? stack_depot_save+0x378/0x500 [ 715.486763] ? ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.494979] ? kfree+0xc1/0x520 [ 715.498128] ? mutex_lock_io_nested+0x12a0/0x12a0 [ 715.502837] ? kasan_set_free_info+0x20/0x30 [ 715.507110] ? __kasan_slab_free+0x10b/0x140 [ 715.511385] ? slab_free_freelist_hook+0xc7/0x220 [ 715.516092] ? kfree+0xc1/0x520 [ 715.519235] ? ice_deinit_lag+0x16c/0x220 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.527359] ? ice_remove+0x1cf/0x6a0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.535133] ? pci_device_remove+0xab/0x1d0 [ 715.539318] ? __device_release_driver+0x35b/0x690 [ 715.544110] ? driver_detach+0x214/0x2f0 [ 715.548035] ? bus_remove_driver+0x11d/0x2f0 [ 715.552309] ? pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x250 [ 715.556840] ? ice_module_exit+0xc/0x2f [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.564799] ? __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x2d8/0x4e0 [ 715.570554] ? do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 [ 715.574303] ? entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae [ 715.579529] ? start_flush_work+0x542/0x8f0 [ 715.583719] ? ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.591923] ice_sq_send_cmd+0x78/0x14c0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.599960] ? wait_for_completion_io+0x250/0x250 [ 715.604662] ? lock_acquire+0x196/0x200 [ 715.608504] ? do_raw_spin_trylock+0xa5/0x160 [ 715.612864] ice_sbq_rw_reg+0x1e6/0x2f0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.620813] ? ice_reset+0x130/0x130 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.628497] ? __debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x1e8/0x3c0 [ 715.633550] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x1c/0x130 [ 715.637748] ice_write_phy_reg_e810+0x70/0xf0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.646220] ? do_raw_spin_trylock+0xa5/0x160 [ 715.650581] ? ice_ptp_release+0x910/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.658797] ? ice_ptp_release+0x255/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.667013] ice_clear_phy_tstamp+0x2c/0x110 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.675403] ice_ptp_release+0x408/0x910 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.683440] ice_remove+0x560/0x6a0 [ice 9a7e1ec00971c89ecd3fe0d4dc7da2b3786a421d] [ 715.691037] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x46/0x73 [ 715.696005] pci_device_remove+0xab/0x1d0 [ 715.700018] __device_release_driver+0x35b/0x690 [ 715.704637] driver_detach+0x214/0x2f0 [ 715.708389] bus_remove_driver+0x11d/0x2f0 [ 715.712489] pci_unregister_driver+0x26/0x250 [ 71 ---truncated---

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux5.14.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47449
Debian:13linux5.14.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47449
Debian:14linux5.14.16-1DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2021-47449

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux 46720ac66c21bf85e08823664b7b314b85e43f26 – before 61616be899975404df44c20ab902464b60882cd74dd0d5c33c3ebf24a07cae6141648aeb7ba56072 – before 4d4a223a86afe658cd878800f09458e8bb54415d
Linux Linux 5.14.4 – before 5.14.14

Weakness: CWE-129 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

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