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Commit 5d70bd5c authored by Sarah Newman's avatar Sarah Newman Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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net/mlx4_en: fix potential use-after-free with dma_unmap_page



[ Not relevant upstream, therefore no upstream commit. ]

To fix, unmap the page as soon as possible.

When swiotlb is in use, calling dma_unmap_page means that
the original page mapped with dma_map_page must still be valid,
as swiotlb will copy data from its internal cache back to the
originally requested DMA location.

When GRO is enabled, before this patch all references to the
original frag may be put and the page freed before dma_unmap_page
in mlx4_en_free_frag is called.

It is possible there is a path where the use-after-free occurs
even with GRO disabled, but this has not been observed so far.

The bug can be trivially detected by doing the following:

* Compile the kernel with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
* Run the kernel as a Xen Dom0
* Leave GRO enabled on the interface
* Run a 10 second or more test with iperf over the interface.

This bug was likely introduced in
commit 4cce66cd ("mlx4_en: map entire pages to increase throughput"),
first part of u3.6.

It was incidentally fixed in
commit 34db548bfb95 ("mlx4: add page recycling in receive path"),
first part of v4.12.

This version applies to the v4.9 series.

Signed-off-by: default avatarSarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSarah Newman <srn@prgmr.com>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@mellanox.com>
Cc: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent e9b911a9
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