CVE-2024-46789

2024-09-1808:15:05

Linux

web.nvd.nist.gov

linux kernel

vulnerability

mm/slub

config_memcg

config_kfence

config_kmemleak

warning

call stack

kfence allocation

slab->obj_exts

prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook

mem_pool_free

alloc_tag_sub

alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook

__gfp_no_obj_ext

kmem_cache_free

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.6%

JSON

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

mm/slub: add check for s->flags in the alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook

When enable CONFIG_MEMCG & CONFIG_KFENCE & CONFIG_KMEMLEAK, the following
warning always occurs,This is because the following call stack occurred:
mem_pool_alloc
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof
slab_alloc_node
kfence_alloc

Once the kfence allocation is successful,slab->obj_exts will not be empty,
because it has already been assigned a value in kfence_init_pool.

Since in the prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook function,we perform a check for
s->flags & (SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT | SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE),the alloc_tag_add function
will not be called as a result.Therefore,ref->ct remains NULL.

However,when we call mem_pool_free,since obj_ext is not empty, it
eventually leads to the alloc_tag_sub scenario being invoked. This is
where the warning occurs.

So we should add corresponding checks in the alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook.
For __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT case,I didn’t see the specific case where it’s using
kfence,so I won’t add the corresponding check in
alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for now.

[ 3.734349] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 3.734807] alloc_tag was not set
[ 3.735129] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 40 at ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:130 kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[ 3.735866] Modules linked in: autofs4
[ 3.736211] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 40 Comm: ksoftirqd/4 Tainted: G W 6.11.0-rc3-dirty #1
[ 3.736969] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[ 3.737258] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[ 3.737875] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=–)
[ 3.738501] pc : kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[ 3.738951] lr : kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[ 3.739361] sp : ffff80008357bb60
[ 3.739693] x29: ffff80008357bb70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
[ 3.740338] x26: ffff80008207f000 x25: ffff000b2eb2fd60 x24: ffff0000c0005700
[ 3.740982] x23: ffff8000804229e4 x22: ffff800082080000 x21: ffff800081756000
[ 3.741630] x20: fffffd7ff8253360 x19: 00000000000000a8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[ 3.742274] x17: ffff800ab327f000 x16: ffff800083398000 x15: ffff800081756df0
[ 3.742919] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d344320202020 x12: 5b5d373038343337
[ 3.743560] x11: ffff80008357b650 x10: 000000000000005d x9 : 00000000ffffffd0
[ 3.744231] x8 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x7 : ffff80008237bad0 x6 : c0000000ffff7fff
[ 3.744907] x5 : ffff80008237ba78 x4 : ffff8000820bbad0 x3 : 0000000000000001
[ 3.745580] x2 : 68d66547c09f7800 x1 : 68d66547c09f7800 x0 : 0000000000000000
[ 3.746255] Call trace:
[ 3.746530] kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[ 3.746931] mem_pool_free+0x44/0xf4
[ 3.747306] free_object_rcu+0xc8/0xdc
[ 3.747693] rcu_do_batch+0x234/0x8a4
[ 3.748075] rcu_core+0x230/0x3e4
[ 3.748424] rcu_core_si+0x14/0x1c
[ 3.748780] handle_softirqs+0x134/0x378
[ 3.749189] run_ksoftirqd+0x70/0x9c
[ 3.749560] smpboot_thread_fn+0x148/0x22c
[ 3.749978] kthread+0x10c/0x118
[ 3.750323] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[ 3.750696] —[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]—

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.10–6.10.10

linuxlinux_kernelRange6.11.0≥

VendorProductVersionCPE
linuxlinux_kernel*cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
linux	linux_kernel	*	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel::::::::

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Linux",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/slub.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "4b8736964640",
        "lessThan": "2d476c86ba47",
        "status": "affected",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
      {
        "version": "4b8736964640",
        "lessThan": "ab7ca09520e9",
        "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/slub.c"
    ],
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.10",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.10",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.10.10",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.10.*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "version": "6.11",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
        "status": "unaffected",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
      }
    ]
  }
]