CVE-2024-45022: mm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0
First published: Wed Sep 11 2024(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: fix page mapping if vm_area_alloc_pages() with high order fallback to order 0 The __vmap_pages_range_noflush() assumes its argument pages** contains pages with the same page shift. However, since commit e9c3cda4d86e ("mm, vmalloc: fix high order __GFP_NOFAIL allocations"), if gfp_flags includes __GFP_NOFAIL with high order in vm_area_alloc_pages() and page allocation failed for high order, the pages** may contain two different page shifts (high order and order-0). This could lead __vmap_pages_range_noflush() to perform incorrect mappings, potentially resulting in memory corruption. Users might encounter this as follows (vmap_allow_huge = true, 2M is for PMD_SIZE): kvmalloc(2M, __GFP_NOFAIL|GFP_X) __vmalloc_node_range_noprof(vm_flags=VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP) vm_area_alloc_pages(order=9) ---> order-9 allocation failed and fallback to order-0 vmap_pages_range() vmap_pages_range_noflush() __vmap_pages_range_noflush(page_shift = 21) ----> wrong mapping happens We can remove the fallback code because if a high-order allocation fails, __vmalloc_node_range_noprof() will retry with order-0. Therefore, it is unnecessary to fallback to order-0 here. Therefore, fix this by removing the fallback code.
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.1.95<6.1.107 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.3<6.6.48 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.7<6.10.7 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc1 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc2 | |
| Linux Linux kernel | =6.11-rc3 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.119-1 6.11.10-1 6.12.5-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/61ebe5a747da649057c37be1c37eb934b4af79ca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c91618816f4d21fc574d7577a37722adcd4075b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de7bad86345c43cd040ed43e20d9fad78a3ee59f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fd1ffbb50ef4da5e1378a46616b6d7407dc795da
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-45022
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-45022
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-45022
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-45022
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-45022
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/61ebe5a747da649057c37be1c37eb934b4af79ca
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