Vulnerability in Linux

[ Description ]Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: dpaa2-switch: fix the error path in dpaa2_switch_rx() In case of an error in dpaa2_switch_rx(), the dpaa2_switch_free_fd() function is called in order to free the FD. This is incorrect since the dpaa2_switch_free_fd() is intended to be used on Tx frame descriptors, meaning that it expects in the software annotation area of the FD data to find a valid skb pointer on which to call dev_kfree_skb(). Fix this by extracting the dma_unmap_page() from dpaa2_switch_build_linear_skb() directly into the dpaa2_switch_rx() function. This allows us to directly use free_pages() in case of an error before an SKB was created and kfree_skb() afterwards.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• git.kernel.org/stable/c/259ad6093204b999d41e7e6d0ad90ef9a71a44ab
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/74c1c9f5c0c30bbd0c2cf87b6e3507e7ea46c13d
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/791068c962469af0090e1a1ee63657fb9eef40db
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/ee54f8d7e642c44cfcc2dcb390b4c50e145d81b8
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4ceb8e3d6d5becb4cda7a7098a8638e18c835a1
• git.kernel.org/stable/c/fa232b4496cb59503ae5108c756cbe10e59b0bc3