CVE-2023-53171
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()
When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change, but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm.
To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped. Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.
locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 < 5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3 | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 < eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7 | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 < a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17 | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 < b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 73fa0d10d077d9521ee2dace2307ae2c9a965336 < 046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026 | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 3.6 | affected |
| Linux | Linux | 0 < 3.6 | unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | 5.10.173 <= 5.10.* | unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | 5.15.99 <= 5.15.* | unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | 6.1.16 <= 6.1.* | unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | 6.2.3 <= 6.2.* | unaffected |
| Linux | Linux | 6.3 <= * | unaffected |
Weaknesses
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a271242716846cc016736fb76be2b40ee49b0c3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eafb81c50da899dd80b340c841277acc4a1945b7
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6b2aabe664098d5cf877ae0fd96459464a30e17
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b0790dff0760b7734cf0961f497ad64628ca550b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/046eca5018f8a5dd1dc2cedf87fb5843b9ea3026
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