Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.144 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix extent map use-after-free when adding pages to compressed bio
At add_ra_bio_pages() we are accessing the extent map to calculate
'add_size' after we dropped our reference on the extent map, resulting
in a use-after-free. Fix this by computing 'add_size' before dropping our
extent map reference.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed
xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported
page cache size is defined as MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER by commit 099d90642a71
("mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray"). However,
it's possible to have 512MB page cache in the huge memory's collapsing
path on ARM64 system whose base page size is 64KB. 512MB page cache is
breaking the limitation and a warning is raised when the xarray entry is
split as shown in the following example.
[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# cat /proc/1/smaps | grep KernelPageSize
KernelPageSize: 64 kB
[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# cat /tmp/test.c
:
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *filename = TEST_XFS_FILENAME;
int fd = 0;
void *buf = (void *)-1, *p;
int pgsize = getpagesize();
int ret = 0;
if (pgsize != 0x10000) {
fprintf(stdout, "System with 64KB base page size is required!\n");
return -EPERM;
}
system("echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/253:0/read_ahead_kb");
system("echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches");
/* Open the xfs file */
fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);
assert(fd > 0);
/* Create VMA */
buf = mmap(NULL, TEST_MEM_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
assert(buf != (void *)-1);
fprintf(stdout, "mapped buffer at 0x%p\n", buf);
/* Populate VMA */
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);
assert(ret == 0);
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_POPULATE_READ);
assert(ret == 0);
/* Collapse VMA */
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
assert(ret == 0);
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_COLLAPSE);
if (ret) {
fprintf(stdout, "Error %d to madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE)\n", errno);
goto out;
}
/* Split xarray entry. Write permission is needed */
munmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);
buf = (void *)-1;
close(fd);
fd = open(filename, O_RDWR);
assert(fd > 0);
fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
TEST_MEM_SIZE - pgsize, pgsize);
out:
if (buf != (void *)-1)
munmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);
if (fd > 0)
close(fd);
return ret;
}
[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# gcc /tmp/test.c -o /tmp/test
[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# /tmp/test
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 7560 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib \
nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct \
nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \
ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm fuse \
xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 virtio_net \
sha1_ce net_failover virtio_blk virtio_console failover dimlib virtio_mmio
CPU: 25 PID: 7560 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7-gavin+ #9
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
lr : split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x780
sp : ffff8000ac32f660
x29: ffff8000ac32f660 x28: ffff0000e0969eb0 x27: ffff8000ac32f6c0
x26: 0000000000000c40 x25: ffff0000e0969eb0 x24: 000000000000000d
x23: ffff8000ac32f6c0 x22: ffffffdfc0700000 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffdfc0700000 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffd5f3708ffc70 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: ffffffffffffffc0 x10: 0000000000000040 x9 : ffffd5f3708e692c
x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff0000e0969eb8
x5 : ffffd5f37289e378 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000c40
x2 : 000000000000000d x1 : 000000000000000c x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x780
truncate_inode_partial_folio+0xdc/0x160
truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b4/0x4a8
truncate_pagecache_range+0x84/0xa
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2024-08-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
spi: microchip-core: ensure TX and RX FIFOs are empty at start of a transfer
While transmitting with rx_len == 0, the RX FIFO is not going to be
emptied in the interrupt handler. A subsequent transfer could then
read crap from the previous transfer out of the RX FIFO into the
start RX buffer. The core provides a register that will empty the RX and
TX FIFOs, so do that before each transfer.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-17
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
closures: Change BUG_ON() to WARN_ON()
If a BUG_ON() can be hit in the wild, it shouldn't be a BUG_ON()
For reference, this has popped up once in the CI, and we'll need more
info to debug it:
03240 ------------[ cut here ]------------
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 kernel BUG at lib/closure.c:21!
03240 Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
03240 Modules linked in:
03240 CPU: 15 PID: 40534 Comm: kworker/u80:1 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc4-ktest-ga56da69799bd #25570
03240 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
03240 Workqueue: btree_update btree_interior_update_work
03240 pstate: 00001005 (nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT +SSBS BTYPE=--)
03240 pc : closure_put+0x224/0x2a0
03240 lr : closure_put+0x24/0x2a0
03240 sp : ffff0000d12071c0
03240 x29: ffff0000d12071c0 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000d1207360
03240 x26: 0000000000000040 x25: 0000000000000040 x24: 0000000000000040
03240 x23: ffff0000c1f20180 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffff0000c1f20168
03240 x20: 0000000040000000 x19: ffff0000c1f20140 x18: 0000000000000001
03240 x17: 0000000000003aa0 x16: 0000000000003ad0 x15: 1fffe0001c326974
03240 x14: 0000000000000a1e x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 1fffe000183e402d
03240 x11: ffff6000183e402d x10: dfff800000000000 x9 : ffff6000183e402e
03240 x8 : 0000000000000001 x7 : 00009fffe7c1bfd3 x6 : ffff0000c1f2016b
03240 x5 : ffff0000c1f20168 x4 : ffff6000183e402e x3 : ffff800081391954
03240 x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 00000000a8000000
03240 Call trace:
03240 closure_put+0x224/0x2a0
03240 bch2_check_for_deadlock+0x910/0x1028
03240 bch2_six_check_for_deadlock+0x1c/0x30
03240 six_lock_slowpath.isra.0+0x29c/0xed0
03240 six_lock_ip_waiter+0xa8/0xf8
03240 __bch2_btree_node_lock_write+0x14c/0x298
03240 bch2_trans_lock_write+0x6d4/0xb10
03240 __bch2_trans_commit+0x135c/0x5520
03240 btree_interior_update_work+0x1248/0x1c10
03240 process_scheduled_works+0x53c/0xd90
03240 worker_thread+0x370/0x8c8
03240 kthread+0x258/0x2e8
03240 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
03240 Code: aa1303e0 d63f0020 a94363f7 17ffff8c (d4210000)
03240 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
03240 Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception
03240 SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
03241 SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 13,15
03241 Kernel Offset: disabled
03241 CPU features: 0x00,00000003,80000008,4240500b
03241 Memory Limit: none
03241 ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops - BUG: Fatal exception ]---
03246 ========= FAILED TIMEOUT copygc_torture_no_checksum in 7200s
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray
Patch series "mm/filemap: Limit page cache size to that supported by
xarray", v2.
Currently, xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. More details
can be found from the WARN_ON() statement in xas_split_alloc(). In our
test whose code is attached below, we hit the WARN_ON() on ARM64 system
where the base page size is 64KB and huge page size is 512MB. The issue
was reported long time ago and some discussions on it can be found here
[1].
[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-xfs/msg75404.html
In order to fix the issue, we need to adjust MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER to one
supported by xarray and avoid PMD-sized page cache if needed. The code
changes are suggested by David Hildenbrand.
PATCH[1] adjusts MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER to that supported by xarray
PATCH[2-3] avoids PMD-sized page cache in the synchronous readahead path
PATCH[4] avoids PMD-sized page cache for shmem files if needed
Test program
============
# cat test.c
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <sys/syscall.h>
#include <sys/mman.h>
#define TEST_XFS_FILENAME "/tmp/data"
#define TEST_SHMEM_FILENAME "/dev/shm/data"
#define TEST_MEM_SIZE 0x20000000
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
const char *filename;
int fd = 0;
void *buf = (void *)-1, *p;
int pgsize = getpagesize();
int ret;
if (pgsize != 0x10000) {
fprintf(stderr, "64KB base page size is required\n");
return -EPERM;
}
system("echo force > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/shmem_enabled");
system("rm -fr /tmp/data");
system("rm -fr /dev/shm/data");
system("echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches");
/* Open xfs or shmem file */
filename = TEST_XFS_FILENAME;
if (argc > 1 && !strcmp(argv[1], "shmem"))
filename = TEST_SHMEM_FILENAME;
fd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_RDWR | O_TRUNC);
if (fd < 0) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open <%s>\n", filename);
return -EIO;
}
/* Extend file size */
ret = ftruncate(fd, TEST_MEM_SIZE);
if (ret) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error %d to ftruncate()\n", ret);
goto cleanup;
}
/* Create VMA */
buf = mmap(NULL, TEST_MEM_SIZE,
PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
if (buf == (void *)-1) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to mmap <%s>\n", filename);
goto cleanup;
}
fprintf(stdout, "mapped buffer at 0x%p\n", buf);
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);
if (ret) {
fprintf(stderr, "Unable to madvise(MADV_HUGEPAGE)\n");
goto cleanup;
}
/* Populate VMA */
ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_POPULATE_WRITE);
if (ret) {
fprintf(stderr, "Error %d to madvise(MADV_POPULATE_WRITE)\n", ret);
goto cleanup;
}
/* Punch the file to enforce xarray split */
ret = fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,
TEST_MEM_SIZE - pgsize, pgsize);
if (ret)
fprintf(stderr, "Error %d to fallocate()\n", ret);
cleanup:
if (buf != (void *)-1)
munmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);
if (fd > 0)
close(fd);
return 0;
}
# gcc test.c -o test
# cat /proc/1/smaps | grep KernelPageSize | head -n 1
KernelPageSize: 64 kB
# ./test shmem
:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 17 PID: 5253 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib \
nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct \
nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \
ip_set nf_tables rfkill nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon \
drm fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 \
virtio_net sha1_ce net_failover failover virtio_console virtio_blk \
dimlib virtio_mmio
CPU: 17 PID: 5253 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #12
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TC
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fail bpf_timer_cancel when callback is being cancelled
Given a schedule:
timer1 cb timer2 cb
bpf_timer_cancel(timer2); bpf_timer_cancel(timer1);
Both bpf_timer_cancel calls would wait for the other callback to finish
executing, introducing a lockup.
Add an atomic_t count named 'cancelling' in bpf_hrtimer. This keeps
track of all in-flight cancellation requests for a given BPF timer.
Whenever cancelling a BPF timer, we must check if we have outstanding
cancellation requests, and if so, we must fail the operation with an
error (-EDEADLK) since cancellation is synchronous and waits for the
callback to finish executing. This implies that we can enter a deadlock
situation involving two or more timer callbacks executing in parallel
and attempting to cancel one another.
Note that we avoid incrementing the cancelling counter for the target
timer (the one being cancelled) if bpf_timer_cancel is not invoked from
a callback, to avoid spurious errors. The whole point of detecting
cur->cancelling and returning -EDEADLK is to not enter a busy wait loop
(which may or may not lead to a lockup). This does not apply in case the
caller is in a non-callback context, the other side can continue to
cancel as it sees fit without running into errors.
Background on prior attempts:
Earlier versions of this patch used a bool 'cancelling' bit and used the
following pattern under timer->lock to publish cancellation status.
lock(t->lock);
t->cancelling = true;
mb();
if (cur->cancelling)
return -EDEADLK;
unlock(t->lock);
hrtimer_cancel(t->timer);
t->cancelling = false;
The store outside the critical section could overwrite a parallel
requests t->cancelling assignment to true, to ensure the parallely
executing callback observes its cancellation status.
It would be necessary to clear this cancelling bit once hrtimer_cancel
is done, but lack of serialization introduced races. Another option was
explored where bpf_timer_start would clear the bit when (re)starting the
timer under timer->lock. This would ensure serialized access to the
cancelling bit, but may allow it to be cleared before in-flight
hrtimer_cancel has finished executing, such that lockups can occur
again.
Thus, we choose an atomic counter to keep track of all outstanding
cancellation requests and use it to prevent lockups in case callbacks
attempt to cancel each other while executing in parallel.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/shmem: disable PMD-sized page cache if needed
For shmem files, it's possible that PMD-sized page cache can't be
supported by xarray. For example, 512MB page cache on ARM64 when the base
page size is 64KB can't be supported by xarray. It leads to errors as the
following messages indicate when this sort of xarray entry is split.
WARNING: CPU: 34 PID: 7578 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: binfmt_misc nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 \
nft_fib nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject \
nft_ct nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \
ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm fuse xfs \
libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce virtio_net \
net_failover virtio_console virtio_blk failover dimlib virtio_mmio
CPU: 34 PID: 7578 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #9
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
lr : split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x720
sp : ffff8000882af5f0
x29: ffff8000882af5f0 x28: ffff8000882af650 x27: ffff8000882af768
x26: 0000000000000cc0 x25: 000000000000000d x24: ffff00010625b858
x23: ffff8000882af650 x22: ffffffdfc0900000 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffdfc0900000 x18: 0000000000000000
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000018000000000 x15: 52f8004000000000
x14: 0000e00000000000 x13: 0000000000002000 x12: 0000000000000020
x11: 52f8000000000000 x10: 52f8e1c0ffff6000 x9 : ffffbeb9619a681c
x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff00010b02ddb0
x5 : ffffbeb96395e378 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000cc0
x2 : 000000000000000d x1 : 000000000000000c x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x720
truncate_inode_partial_folio+0xdc/0x160
shmem_undo_range+0x2bc/0x6a8
shmem_fallocate+0x134/0x430
vfs_fallocate+0x124/0x2e8
ksys_fallocate+0x4c/0xa0
__arm64_sys_fallocate+0x24/0x38
invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x7c/0xd8
do_el0_svc+0xb4/0xd0
el0_svc+0x44/0x1d8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x134/0x150
el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180
Fix it by disabling PMD-sized page cache when HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is larger
than MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER. As Matthew Wilcox pointed, the page cache in a
shmem file isn't represented by a multi-index entry and doesn't have this
limitation when the xarry entry is split until commit 6b24ca4a1a8d ("mm:
Use multi-index entries in the page cache").
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-08-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/pkey: Wipe copies of protected- and secure-keys
Although the clear-key of neither protected- nor secure-keys is
accessible, this key material should only be visible to the calling
process. So wipe all copies of protected- or secure-keys from stack,
even in case of an error.
CVSS Score
1.9
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-30
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/pkey: Wipe copies of clear-key structures on failure
Wipe all sensitive data from stack for all IOCTLs, which convert a
clear-key into a protected- or secure-key.
CVSS Score
4.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-30
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/pkey: Use kfree_sensitive() to fix Coccinelle warnings
Replace memzero_explicit() and kfree() with kfree_sensitive() to fix
warnings reported by Coccinelle:
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1506)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1643)
WARNING opportunity for kfree_sensitive/kvfree_sensitive (line 1770)
CVSS Score
4.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2024-07-30