i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak
Key facts
- Attack vector
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- Privileges required
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- User interaction
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- Attack complexity
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- Impact type
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- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
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- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 6 fixed, 2 without a fix
No CVSS vector from any source. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: i40e: Fix DMA mappings leak During reallocation of RX buffers, new DMA mappings are created for those buffers. steps for reproduction: while : do for ((i=0; i<=8160; i=i+32)) do ethtool -G enp130s0f0 rx $i tx $i sleep 0.5 ethtool -g enp130s0f0 done done This resulted in crash: i40e 0000:01:00.1: Unable to allocate memory for the Rx descriptor ring, size=65536 Driver BUG WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:141 xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x43/0x50 Call Trace: i40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e] i40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e] ethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150 genl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160 ? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0 genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90 ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160 netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230 netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0 sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50 __sys_sendto+0xee/0x160 ? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0 ? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca RIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b Missing register, driver bug WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4300 at net/core/xdp.c:119 xdp_rxq_info_unreg_mem_model+0x69/0x140 Call Trace: xdp_rxq_info_unreg+0x1e/0x50 i40e_free_rx_resources+0x70/0x80 [i40e] i40e_set_ringparam+0x27c/0x800 [i40e] ethnl_set_rings+0x1b2/0x290 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit.isra.15+0x10f/0x150 genl_family_rcv_msg+0xb3/0x160 ? rings_fill_reply+0x1a0/0x1a0 genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0x90 ? genl_family_rcv_msg+0x160/0x160 netlink_rcv_skb+0x4c/0x120 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x196/0x230 netlink_sendmsg+0x204/0x3d0 sock_sendmsg+0x4c/0x50 __sys_sendto+0xee/0x160 ? handle_mm_fault+0xbe/0x1e0 ? syscall_trace_enter+0x1d3/0x2c0 __x64_sys_sendto+0x24/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x1a0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65/0xca RIP: 0033:0x7f5eac8b035b This was caused because of new buffers with different RX ring count should substitute older ones, but those buffers were freed in i40e_configure_rx_ring and reallocated again with i40e_alloc_rx_bi, thus kfree on rx_bi caused leak of already mapped DMA. Fix this by reallocating ZC with rx_bi_zc struct when BPF program loads. Additionally reallocate back to rx_bi when BPF program unloads. If BPF program is loaded/unloaded and XSK pools are created, reallocate RX queues accordingly in XSP_SETUP_XSK_POOL handler.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 5.10.152, 5.15.76, 6.0.6, 6.1
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2023:7557 Released 2023-11-28 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security and bug fix update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4) bpftool-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4 +14
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.4) bpftool-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4 +19
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.4) bpftool-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4, kernel-abi-stablelists-4.18.0-305.114.1.el8_4 +14
- RHSA-2023:2458 Released 2023-05-09 · Red Hat rating Importantkernel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) kernel-64k-debug-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-debug-devel-matched-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 +10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool-7.0.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2 +29
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) kernel-tools-libs-devel-5.14.0-284.11.1.el9_2
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS AUS (v.8.4) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:7557 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS E4S (v.8.4) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:7557 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS TUS (v.8.4) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:7557 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2023:2458 |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2022-50679
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-75w2-9m25-jvqg
References
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Sources
- CVE-2022-50679 · CVE Program
- CVE-2022-50679 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-75w2-9m25-jvqg · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2022-50679 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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