CVE-2022-50738

EUVD-2022-55823
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vhost-vdpa: fix an iotlb memory leak

Before commit 3d5698793897 ("vhost-vdpa: introduce asid based IOTLB")
we called vhost_vdpa_iotlb_unmap(v, iotlb, 0ULL, 0ULL - 1) during
release to free all the resources allocated when processing user IOTLB
messages through vhost_vdpa_process_iotlb_update().
That commit changed the handling of IOTLB a bit, and we accidentally
removed some code called during the release.

We partially fixed this with commit 037d4305569a ("vhost-vdpa: call
vhost_vdpa_cleanup during the release") but a potential memory leak is
still there as showed by kmemleak if the application does not send
VHOST_IOTLB_INVALIDATE or crashes:

  unreferenced object 0xffff888007fbaa30 (size 16):
    comm "blkio-bench", pid 914, jiffies 4294993521 (age 885.500s)
    hex dump (first 16 bytes):
      40 73 41 07 80 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  @sA.............
    backtrace:
      [<0000000087736d2a>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x142/0x1c0
      [<0000000060740f50>] vhost_vdpa_process_iotlb_msg+0x68c/0x901 [vhost_vdpa]
      [<0000000083e8e205>] vhost_chr_write_iter+0xc0/0x4a0 [vhost]
      [<000000008f2f414a>] vhost_vdpa_chr_write_iter+0x18/0x20 [vhost_vdpa]
      [<00000000de1cd4a0>] vfs_write+0x216/0x4b0
      [<00000000a2850200>] ksys_write+0x71/0xf0
      [<00000000de8e720b>] __x64_sys_write+0x19/0x20
      [<0000000018b12cbb>] do_syscall_64+0x3f/0x90
      [<00000000986ec465>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd

Let's fix this calling vhost_vdpa_iotlb_unmap() on the whole range in
vhost_vdpa_remove_as(). We move that call before vhost_dev_cleanup()
since we need a valid v->vdev.mm in vhost_vdpa_pa_unmap().
vhost_iotlb_reset() call can be removed, since vhost_vdpa_iotlb_unmap()
on the whole range removes all the entries.

The kmemleak log reported was observed with a vDPA device that has `use_va`
set to true (e.g. VDUSE). This patch has been tested with both types of
devices.
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 6%
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linux-xilinx
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noble
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linux-xilinx-zynqmp
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jammy
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noble
dne
plucky
dne
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