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CVE-2024-49980

vrf: revert "vrf: Remove unnecessary RCU-bh critical section"

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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vrf: revert "vrf: Remove unnecessary RCU-bh critical section"

This reverts commit 504fc6f4f7f681d2a03aa5f68aad549d90eab853.

dev_queue_xmit_nit is expected to be called with BH disabled.
__dev_queue_xmit has the following:

/* Disable soft irqs for various locks below. Also
* stops preemption for RCU.
*/
rcu_read_lock_bh();

VRF must follow this invariant. The referenced commit removed this
protection. Which triggered a lockdep warning:

================================
WARNING: inconsistent lock state
6.11.0 #1 Tainted: G W
--------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
btserver/134819 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
ffff8882da30c118 (rlock-AF_PACKET){+.?.}-{2:2}, at: tpacket_rcv+0x863/0x3b30
{IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:
lock_acquire+0x19a/0x4f0
_raw_spin_lock+0x27/0x40
packet_rcv+0xa33/0x1320
__netif_receive_skb_core.constprop.0+0xcb0/0x3a90
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x2c9/0x890
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x610/0xcc0
[...]

other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:

CPU0
----
lock(rlock-AF_PACKET);
<Interrupt>
lock(rlock-AF_PACKET);

*** DEADLOCK ***

Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0xa0
mark_lock+0x102e/0x16b0
__lock_acquire+0x9ae/0x6170
lock_acquire+0x19a/0x4f0
_raw_spin_lock+0x27/0x40
tpacket_rcv+0x863/0x3b30
dev_queue_xmit_nit+0x709/0xa40
vrf_finish_direct+0x26e/0x340 [vrf]
vrf_l3_out+0x5f4/0xe80 [vrf]
__ip_local_out+0x51e/0x7a0
[...]

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  • 2024-10-21 CVE Reserved
  • 2024-10-21 CVE Published
  • 2024-11-01 EPSS Updated
  • 2024-11-19 CVE Updated
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Linux
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