Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: aardvark: Fix kernel panic during PIO transfer Trying to start a new PIO transfer by writing value 0 in PIO_START register when previous transfer has not yet completed (which is indicated by value 1 in PIO_START) causes an External Abort on CPU, which results in kernel panic: SError Interrupt on CPU0, code 0xbf000002 -- SError Kernel panic - not syncing: Asynchronous SError Interrupt To prevent kernel panic, it is required to reject a new PIO transfer when previous one has not finished yet. If previous PIO transfer is not finished yet, the kernel may issue a new PIO request only if the previous PIO transfer timed out. In the past the root cause of this issue was incorrectly identified (as it often happens during link retraining or after link down event) and special hack was implemented in Trusted Firmware to catch all SError events in EL3, to ignore errors with code 0xbf000002 and not forwarding any other errors to kernel and instead throw panic from EL3 Trusted Firmware handler. Links to discussion and patches about this issue: https://git.trustedfirmware.org/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a.git/commit/?id=3c7dcdac5c50 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/20190316161243.29517-1-repk@triplefau.lt/ https://lore.kernel.org/linux-pci/971be151d24312cc533989a64bd454b4@www.loen.fr/ https://review.trustedfirmware.org/c/TF-A/trusted-firmware-a/+/1541 But the real cause was the fact that during link retraining or after link down event the PIO transfer may take longer time, up to the 1.44s until it times out. This increased probability that a new PIO transfer would be issued by kernel while previous one has not finished yet. After applying this change into the kernel, it is possible to revert the mentioned TF-A hack and SError events do not have to be caught in TF-A EL3.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before 400e6b1860c8be61388d0b77814c53260f96e17a; affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before b00a9aaa4be20ad6e3311fb78a485eae0899e89a; affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before 4c90f90a91d75c3c73dd633827c90e8746d9f54d; affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before 1a1dbc4473974867fe8c5f195c17b341c8e82867; affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before 3d213a4ddf49a860be6e795482c17f87e0c82b2a; affected 8c39d710363c14ecb09219332869707395d1d495 before f18139966d072dab8e4398c95ce955a9742e04f7 |
| Linux / Linux | affected 4.8; unaffected 0 before 4.8; unaffected 4.14.240 through 4.14.*; unaffected 4.19.198 through 4.19.*; unaffected 5.4.128 through 5.4.*; unaffected 5.10.46 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.12.13 through 5.12.*; unaffected 5.13 through * |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/400e6b1860c8be61388d0b77814c53260f96e17a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b00a9aaa4be20ad6e3311fb78a485eae0899e89a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c90f90a91d75c3c73dd633827c90e8746d9f54d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a1dbc4473974867fe8c5f195c17b341c8e82867
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d213a4ddf49a860be6e795482c17f87e0c82b2a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f18139966d072dab8e4398c95ce955a9742e04f7
ADP enrichment
No English description supplied.
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/400e6b1860c8be61388d0b77814c53260f96e17a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b00a9aaa4be20ad6e3311fb78a485eae0899e89a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c90f90a91d75c3c73dd633827c90e8746d9f54d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a1dbc4473974867fe8c5f195c17b341c8e82867
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d213a4ddf49a860be6e795482c17f87e0c82b2a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f18139966d072dab8e4398c95ce955a9742e04f7
No English description supplied.
No references supplied.