In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tun: limit printing rate when illegal packet received by tun dev
vhostworker will call tun call backs to receive packets. If too many illegal packets arrives, tundo_read will keep dumping packet contents. When console is enabled, it will costs much more cpu time to dump packet and soft lockup will be detected.
net_ratelimit mechanism can be used to limit the dumping rate.
PID: 33036 TASK: ffff949da6f20000 CPU: 23 COMMAND: "vhost-32980" #0 [fffffe00003fce50] crashnmicallback at ffffffff89249253 #1 [fffffe00003fce58] nmihandle at ffffffff89225fa3 #2 [fffffe00003fceb0] defaultdonmi at ffffffff8922642e #3 [fffffe00003fced0] donmi at ffffffff8922660d #4 [fffffe00003fcef0] endrepeatnmi at ffffffff89c01663 [exception RIP: ioserialin+20] RIP: ffffffff89792594 RSP: ffffa655314979e8 RFLAGS: 00000002 RAX: ffffffff89792500 RBX: ffffffff8af428a0 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 00000000000003fd RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: ffffffff8af428a0 RBP: 0000000000002710 R8: 0000000000000004 R9: 000000000000000f R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffff8acbf64f R12: 0000000000000020 R13: ffffffff8acbf698 R14: 0000000000000058 R15: 0000000000000000 ORIGRAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018 #5 [ffffa655314979e8] ioserialin at ffffffff89792594 #6 [ffffa655314979e8] waitforxmitr at ffffffff89793470 #7 [ffffa65531497a08] serial8250consoleputchar at ffffffff897934f6 #8 [ffffa65531497a20] uartconsolewrite at ffffffff8978b605 #9 [ffffa65531497a48] serial8250consolewrite at ffffffff89796558 #10 [ffffa65531497ac8] consoleunlock at ffffffff89316124 #11 [ffffa65531497b10] vprintkemit at ffffffff89317c07 #12 [ffffa65531497b68] printk at ffffffff89318306 #13 [ffffa65531497bc8] printhexdump at ffffffff89650765 #14 [ffffa65531497ca8] tundoread at ffffffffc0b06c27 [tun] #15 [ffffa65531497d38] tunrecvmsg at ffffffffc0b06e34 [tun] #16 [ffffa65531497d68] handlerx at ffffffffc0c5d682 [vhostnet] #17 [ffffa65531497ed0] vhostworker at ffffffffc0c644dc [vhost] #18 [ffffa65531497f10] kthread at ffffffff892d2e72 #19 [ffffa65531497f50] retfrom_fork at ffffffff89c0022f