CVE-2024-39298

2024-06-2515:15:14

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

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linux kernel

memory handling

vulnerability

panic

bad page state

buddy pages

race

7 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.7%

JSON

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages

When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:

page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00
flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
raw: 06fffe0000000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageBuddy(page))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:1009!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__del_page_from_free_list+0x151/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffffa49c90437998 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000035 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c0
RBP: ffffd901233b8000 R08: ffffffffab5511f8 R09: 0000000000008c69
R10: 0000000000003c15 R11: ffffffffab5511f8 R12: ffff8dd8fffc0c80
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8dd8fffc0c80 R15: 0000000000000009
FS: 00007ff916304740(0000) GS:ffff8dd8dfd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055eae50124c8 CR3: 00000008479e0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__rmqueue_pcplist+0x23b/0x520
get_page_from_freelist+0x26b/0xe40
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x113/0x1120
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x11/0xb0
alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio.isra.0+0x5a/0x130
__alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio+0xe7/0x140
alloc_pool_huge_folio+0x68/0x100
set_max_huge_pages+0x13d/0x340
hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0xe8/0x110
proc_sys_call_handler+0x194/0x280
vfs_write+0x387/0x550
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff916114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffec8a2fd78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055eae500e350 RCX: 00007ff916114887
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 000055eae500e390 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000055eae50104c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055eae50104c0
R10: 0000000000000077 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00007ff916216b80 R15: 00007ff916216a00
</TASK>
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
—[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]—

And before the panic, there had an warning about bad page state:

BUG: Bad page state in process page-types pfn:8cee00
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00
flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
page_type: 0xffffff7f(buddy)
raw: 06fffe0000000000 ffffd901241c0008 ffffd901240f8008 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
CPU: 8 PID: 154211 Comm: page-types Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00499-g5544ec3178e2-dirty #22
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x83/0xa0
bad_page+0x63/0xf0
free_unref_page+0x36e/0x5c0
unpoison_memory+0x50b/0x630
simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110
debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60
full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80
vfs_write+0xcd/0x550
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f189a514887
RSP: 002b:00007ffdcd899718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f189a514887
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 00007ffdcd899730 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffdcd8997a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffdcd8994b2
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdcda199a8
R13: 0000000000404af1 R14: 000000000040ad78 R15: 00007f189a7a5040
</TASK>

The root cause should be the below race:

memory_failure
try_memory_failure_hugetlb
me_huge_page
__page_handle_poison
dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio
drain_all_pages – Buddy page can be isolated e.g. for compaction.
take_page_off_buddy – Failed as page is not in the
—truncated—

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.0–6.1.95

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.2.0–6.6.35

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.7.0–6.9.5

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.10.0–6.10-rc1

CNA Affected

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  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/memory-failure.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "ceaf8fbea79a",
        "lessThan": "00b0752c7f15",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ceaf8fbea79a",
        "lessThan": "bb9bb13ce64c",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ceaf8fbea79a",
        "lessThan": "41cd2de3c950",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "ceaf8fbea79a",
        "lessThan": "8cf360b9d6a8",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "affected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/memory-failure.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.0",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.0",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.1.95",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.6.35",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.9.5",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.9.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10-rc1",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]