🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 mlxsw 드라이버에서 Spectrum-2 이상의 ASIC을 사용하는 환경 중, 마스크 집계(mask aggregation) 과정에서 객체 중첩 경고가 발생하는 취약점입니다. 드라이버가 A-TCAM과 C-TCAM의 구분 없이 마스크만 비교하여 라이브러리에 전달함으로써, 라이브러리가 지원하지 않는 중첩된 객체를 생성하여 시스템 오류를 유발할 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
네트워크 장비의 데이터 처리 규칙을 정리하는 과정에서 계산 오류가 발생하여 시스템에 경고를 일으키는 문제입니다. 이로 인해 네트워크 장비의 성능이 저하되거나 예기치 않은 동작이 발생할 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mlxsw: spectrum_acl_erp: Fix object nesting warning
ACLs in Spectrum-2 and newer ASICs can reside in the algorithmic TCAM
(A-TCAM) or in the ordinary circuit TCAM (C-TCAM). The former can
contain more ACLs (i.e., tc filters), but the number of masks in each
region (i.e., tc chain) is limited.
In order to mitigate the effects of the above limitation, the device
allows filters to share a single mask if their masks only differ in up
to 8 consecutive bits. For example, dst_ip/25 can be represented using
dst_ip/24 with a delta of 1 bit. The C-TCAM does not have a limit on the
number of masks being used (and therefore does not support mask
aggregation), but can contain a limited number of filters.
The driver uses the "objagg" library to perform the mask aggregation by
passing it objects that consist of the filter's mask and whether the
filter is to be inserted into the A-TCAM or the C-TCAM since filters in
different TCAMs cannot share a mask.
The set of created objects is dependent on the insertion order of the
filters and is not necessarily optimal. Therefore, the driver will
periodically ask the library to compute a more optimal set ("hints") by
looking at all the existing objects.
When the library asks the driver whether two objects can be aggregated
the driver only compares the provided masks and ignores the A-TCAM /
C-TCAM indication. This is the right thing to do since the goal is to
move as many filters as possible to the A-TCAM. The driver also forbids
two identical masks from being aggregated since this can only happen if
one was intentionally put in the C-TCAM to avoid a conflict in the
A-TCAM.
The above can result in the following set of hints:
H1: {mask X, A-TCAM} -> H2: {mask Y, A-TCAM} // X is Y + delta
H3: {mask Y, C-TCAM} -> H4: {mask Z, A-TCAM} // Y is Z + delta
After getting the hints from the library the driver will start migrating
filters from one region to another while consulting the computed hints
and instructing the device to perform a lookup in both regions during
the transition.
Assuming a filter with mask X is being migrated into the A-TCAM in the
new region, the hints lookup will return H1. Since H2 is the parent of
H1, the library will try to find the object associated with it and
create it if necessary in which case another hints lookup (recursive)
will be performed. This hints lookup for {mask Y, A-TCAM} will either
return H2 or H3 since the driver passes the library an object comparison
function that ignores the A-TCAM / C-TCAM indication.
This can eventually lead to nested objects which are not supported by
the library [1].
Fix by removing the object comparison function from both the driver and
the library as the driver was the only user. That way the lookup will
only return exact matches.
I do not have a reliable reproducer that can reproduce the issue in a
timely manner, but before the fix the issue would reproduce in several
minutes and with the fix it does not reproduce in over an hour.
Note that the current usefulness of the hints is limited because they
include the C-TCAM indication and represent aggregation that cannot
actually happen. This will be addressed in net-next.
[1]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 153 at lib/objagg.c:170 objagg_obj_parent_assign+0xb5/0xd0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 153 Comm: kworker/0:18 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc6-custom-g70fbc2c1c38b #42
Hardware name: Mellanox Technologies Ltd. MSN3700C/VMOD0008, BIOS 5.11 10/10/2018
Workqueue: mlxsw_core mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work
RIP: 0010:objagg_obj_parent_assign+0xb5/0xd0
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__objagg_obj_get+0x2bb/0x580
objagg_obj_get+0xe/0x80
mlxsw_sp_acl_erp_mask_get+0xb5/0xf0
mlxsw_sp_acl_atcam_entry_add+0xe8/0x3c0
mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_entry_create+0x5e/0xa0
mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vchunk_migrate_one+0x16b/0x270
mlxsw_sp_acl_tcam_vregion_rehash_work+0xbe/0x510
process_one_work+0x151/0x370
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (mlxsw driver, Spectrum-2 이상 ASIC 사용 환경)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
특정 네트워크 필터(ACL)를 삽입하거나 마스크를 변경하여 드라이버의 재해싱(rehash) 작업을 유도하는 방식
🛡️ 대응 방법
Linux 커널을 최신 보안 패치가 적용된 버전으로 업데이트하여 객체 비교 함수를 제거한 수정본을 적용해야 합니다.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 취약점이 해결된 최신 패치 버전인지 확인합니다.