CVE-2023-52486

Technical Description

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

drm: Don't unref the same fb many times by mistake due to deadlock handling

If we get a deadlock after the fb lookup in drm_mode_page_flip_ioctl()

we proceed to unref the fb and then retry the whole thing from the top.

But we forget to reset the fb pointer back to NULL, and so if we then

get another error during the retry, before the fb lookup, we proceed

the unref the same fb again without having gotten another reference.

The end result is that the fb will (eventually) end up being freed

while it's still in use.

Reset fb to NULL once we've unreffed it to avoid doing it again

until we've done another fb lookup.

This turned out to be pretty easy to hit on a DG2 when doing async

flips (and CONFIG_DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH=y). The first symptom I

saw that drm_closefb() simply got stuck in a busy loop while walking

the framebuffer list. Fortunately I was able to convince it to oops

instead, and from there it was easier t

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References