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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2021-47139 json

net: hns3: put off calling register_netdev() until client initialize complete

published 2024-03-25 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2021-33787

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 13%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

net: hns3: put off calling register_netdev() until client initialize complete

Currently, the netdevice is registered before client initializing complete. So there is a timewindow between netdevice available and usable. In this case, if user try to change the channel number or ring param, it may cause the hns3_set_rx_cpu_rmap() being called twice, and report bug.

[47199.416502] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: set channels: tqp_num=1, rxfh=0 [47199.430340] hns3 0000:35:00.0 eth1: already uninitialized [47199.438554] hns3 0000:35:00.0: rss changes from 4 to 1 [47199.511854] hns3 0000:35:00.0: Channels changed, rss_size from 4 to 1, tqps from 4 to 1 [47200.163524] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [47200.171674] kernel BUG at lib/cpu_rmap.c:142! [47200.177847] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [47200.185259] Modules linked in: hclge(+) hns3(-) hns3_cae(O) hns_roce_hw_v2 hnae3 vfio_iommu_type1 vfio_pci vfio_virqfd vfio pv680_mii(O) [last unloaded: hclge] [47200.205912] CPU: 1 PID: 8260 Comm: ethtool Tainted: G O 5.11.0-rc3+ #1 [47200.215601] Hardware name: , xxxxxx 02/04/2021 [47200.223052] pstate: 60400009 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) [47200.230188] pc : cpu_rmap_add+0x38/0x40 [47200.237472] lr : irq_cpu_rmap_add+0x84/0x140 [47200.243291] sp : ffff800010e93a30 [47200.247295] x29: ffff800010e93a30 x28: ffff082100584880 [47200.254155] x27: 0000000000000000 x26: 0000000000000000 [47200.260712] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: 0000000000000004 [47200.267241] x23: ffff08209ba03000 x22: ffff08209ba038c0 [47200.273789] x21: 000000000000003f x20: ffff0820e2bc1680 [47200.280400] x19: ffff0820c970ec80 x18: 00000000000000c0 [47200.286944] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffb43debe4a0d0 [47200.293456] x15: fffffc2082990600 x14: dead000000000122 [47200.300059] x13: ffffffffffffffff x12: 000000000000003e [47200.306606] x11: ffff0820815b8080 x10: ffff53e411988000 [47200.313171] x9 : 0000000000000000 x8 : ffff0820e2bc1700 [47200.319682] x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f [47200.326170] x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : ffff800010e93a20 [47200.332656] x3 : 0000000000000004 x2 : ffff0820c970ec80 [47200.339168] x1 : ffff0820e2bc1680 x0 : 0000000000000004 [47200.346058] Call trace: [47200.349324] cpu_rmap_add+0x38/0x40 [47200.354300] hns3_set_rx_cpu_rmap+0x6c/0xe0 [hns3] [47200.362294] hns3_reset_notify_init_enet+0x1cc/0x340 [hns3] [47200.370049] hns3_change_channels+0x40/0xb0 [hns3] [47200.376770] hns3_set_channels+0x12c/0x2a0 [hns3] [47200.383353] ethtool_set_channels+0x140/0x250 [47200.389772] dev_ethtool+0x714/0x23d0 [47200.394440] dev_ioctl+0x4cc/0x640 [47200.399277] sock_do_ioctl+0x100/0x2a0 [47200.404574] sock_ioctl+0x28c/0x470 [47200.409079] __arm64_sys_ioctl+0xb4/0x100 [47200.415217] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x84/0x210 [47200.422088] do_el0_svc+0x28/0x34 [47200.426387] el0_svc+0x28/0x70 [47200.431308] el0_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0 [47200.436477] el0_sync+0x174/0x180 [47200.441562] Code: 11000405 79000c45 f8247861 d65f03c0 (d4210000) [47200.448869] ---[ end trace a01efe4ce42e5f34 ]---

The process is like below: excuting hns3_client_init | register_netdev() | hns3_set_channels() | | hns3_set_rx_cpu_rmap() hns3_reset_notify_uninit_enet() | | | quit without calling function | hns3_free_rx_cpu_rmap for flag | HNS3_NIC_STATE_INITED is unset. | | | hns3_reset_notify_init_enet() | | set HNS3_NIC_STATE_INITED call hns3_set_rx_cpu_rmap()-- crash

Fix it by calling register_netdev() at the end of function hns3_client_init().

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.10.42, 5.12.9, 5.13
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.14.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2021-47139

  • kernel-64kb SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS, Enterprise Storage 7.1 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-syms SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-source SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-default SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +5 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-preempt SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-obs-build SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS +1 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1
  • kernel-default-base SLES for SAP 15 SP3, SLES 15 SP3-LTSS, SLE Micro 5.2 +3 more 5.3.18-150300.59.158.1.150300.18.92.5
  • kernel-rt SLE Micro 5.2, SLE Micro 5.1 5.3.18-150300.166.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:1489-1SUSE-SU-2024:1465-1SUSE-SU-2024:1454-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-47139 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: net: hns3: put off calling register_netdev() until client initialize complete

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 13% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource
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References

Sources

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