CVE-2024-44976
ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ata: pata_macio: Fix DMA table overflow
Kolbj
rn and Jonáš reported that their 32-bit PowerMacs were crashing
in pata-macio since commit 09fe2bfa6b83 ("ata: pata_macio: Fix
max_segment_size with PAGE_SIZE == 64K").
For example:
kernel BUG at drivers/ata/pata_macio.c:544!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
BE PAGE_SIZE=4K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2 DEBUG_PAGEALLOC PowerMac
...
NIP pata_macio_qc_prep+0xf4/0x190
LR pata_macio_qc_prep+0xfc/0x190
Call Trace:
0xc1421660 (unreliable)
ata_qc_issue+0x14c/0x2d4
__ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x200/0x53c
ata_scsi_queuecmd+0x50/0xe0
scsi_queue_rq+0x788/0xb1c
__blk_mq_issue_directly+0x58/0xf4
blk_mq_plug_issue_direct+0x8c/0x1b4
blk_mq_flush_plug_list.part.0+0x584/0x5e0
__blk_flush_plug+0xf8/0x194
__submit_bio+0x1b8/0x2e0
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x230/0x304
btrfs_work_helper+0x200/0x338
process_one_work+0x1a8/0x338
worker_thread+0x364/0x4c0
kthread+0x100/0x104
start_kernel_thread+0x10/0x14
That commit increased max_segment_size to 64KB, with the justification
that the SCSI core was already using that size when PAGE_SIZE == 64KB,
and that there was existing logic to split over-sized requests.
However with a sufficiently large request, the splitting logic causes
each sg to be split into two commands in the DMA table, leading to
overflow of the DMA table, triggering the BUG_ON().
With default settings the bug doesn't trigger, because the request size
is limited by max_sectors_kb == 1280, however max_sectors_kb can be
increased, and apparently some distros do that by default using udev
rules.
Fix the bug for 4KB kernels by reverting to the old max_segment_size.
For 64KB kernels the sg_tablesize needs to be halved, to allow for the
possibility that each sg will be split into two.
CVSS Scores
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Timeline
- 2024-08-21 CVE Reserved
- 2024-09-04 CVE Published
- 2024-09-05 EPSS Updated
- 2024-12-19 CVE Updated
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CWE
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References (3)
URL | Tag | Source |
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09fe2bfa6b83f865126ce3964744863f69a4a030 | Vuln. Introduced |
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URL | Date | SRC |
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/709e4c8f78e156ab332297bdd87527ec3da4e2d4 | 2024-08-29 | |
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/822c8020aebcf5804a143b891e34f29873fee5e2 | 2024-08-21 |
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Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
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Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.10 < 6.10.7 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.10 < 6.10.7" | en |
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Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 6.10 < 6.11 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 6.10 < 6.11" | en |
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