CVE-2021-47556 (GCVE-0-2021-47556)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-24 15:09 – Updated: 2025-05-04 07:13
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Title
ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ethtool: ioctl: fix potential NULL deref in ethtool_set_coalesce() ethtool_set_coalesce() now uses both the .get_coalesce() and .set_coalesce() callbacks. But the check for their availability is buggy, so changing the coalesce settings on a device where the driver provides only _one_ of the callbacks results in a NULL pointer dereference instead of an -EOPNOTSUPP. Fix the condition so that the availability of both callbacks is ensured. This also matches the netlink code. Note that reproducing this requires some effort - it only affects the legacy ioctl path, and needs a specific combination of driver options: - have .get_coalesce() and .coalesce_supported but no .set_coalesce(), or - have .set_coalesce() but no .get_coalesce(). Here eg. ethtool doesn't cause the crash as it first attempts to call ethtool_get_coalesce() and bails out on error.
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Linux Linux Affected: f3ccfda1931977b80267ba54070a1aeafa18f6ca , < abfdd9e2f0f9699015d72317f74154d3e53664e6 (git)
Affected: f3ccfda1931977b80267ba54070a1aeafa18f6ca , < 0276af2176c78771da7f311621a25d7608045827 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 5.15
Unaffected: 0 , < 5.15 (semver)
Unaffected: 5.15.6 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 5.16 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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