CVE-2022-48694 RDMA/irdma: Fix drain SQ hang with no completion

High 7.5 Published Updated

A bug in the Linux kernel's irdma RDMA driver causes a hang during queue pair draining, leading to a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
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Fix
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What is CVE-2022-48694?

CVE-2022-48694 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 3 May 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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

RDMA/irdma: Fix drain SQ hang with no completion

SW generated completions for outstanding WRs posted on SQ after QP is in error target the wrong CQ. This causes the ib_drain_sq to hang with no completion.

Fix this to generate completions on the right CQ.

[ 863.969340] INFO: task kworker/u52:2:671 blocked for more than 122 seconds. [ 863.979224] Not tainted 5.14.0-130.el9.x86_64 #1 [ 863.986588] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 863.996997] task:kworker/u52:2 state:D stack: 0 pid: 671 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000 [ 864.007272] Workqueue: xprtiod xprt_autoclose [sunrpc] [ 864.014056] Call Trace: [ 864.017575] __schedule+0x206/0x580 [ 864.022296] schedule+0x43/0xa0 [ 864.026736] schedule_timeout+0x115/0x150 [ 864.032185] __wait_for_common+0x93/0x1d0 [ 864.037717] ? usleep_range_state+0x90/0x90 [ 864.043368] __ib_drain_sq+0xf6/0x170 [ib_core] [ 864.049371] ? __rdma_block_iter_next+0x80/0x80 [ib_core] [ 864.056240] ib_drain_sq+0x66/0x70 [ib_core] [ 864.062003] rpcrdma_xprt_disconnect+0x82/0x3b0 [rpcrdma] [ 864.069365] ? xprt_prepare_transmit+0x5d/0xc0 [sunrpc] [ 864.076386] xprt_rdma_close+0xe/0x30 [rpcrdma] [ 864.082593] xprt_autoclose+0x52/0x100 [sunrpc] [ 864.088718] process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0 [ 864.094170] worker_thread+0x50/0x3b0 [ 864.099109] ? rescuer_thread+0x370/0x370 [ 864.104473] kthread+0x149/0x170 [ 864.109022] ? set_kthread_struct+0x40/0x40 [ 864.114713] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-48694?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2022-48694?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-48694 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-48694 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2022-48694, GHSA-c5v2-x8pv-3r93, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-48694.

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