CVE-2024-41065 powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

2024-07-2914:57:27

Linux

www.cve.org

powerpc

pseries

whitelist

usercopy hardening

kernel vulnerability

EPSS

Percentile

10.7%

JSON

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

powerpc/pseries: Whitelist dtl slub object for copying to userspace

Reading the dispatch trace log from /sys/kernel/debug/powerpc/dtl/cpu-*
results in a BUG() when the config CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY is enabled as
shown below.

kernel BUG at mm/usercopy.c:102!
Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#1]
LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Radix SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries
Modules linked in: xfs libcrc32c dm_service_time sd_mod t10_pi sg ibmvfc
scsi_transport_fc ibmveth pseries_wdt dm_multipath dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod fuse
CPU: 27 PID: 1815 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.10.0-rc3 #85
Hardware name: IBM,9040-MRX POWER10 (raw) 0x800200 0xf000006 of:IBM,FW1060.00 (NM1060_042) hv:phyp pSeries
NIP:  c0000000005d23d4 LR: c0000000005d23d0 CTR: 00000000006ee6f8
REGS: c000000120c078c0 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (6.10.0-rc3)
MSR:  8000000000029033 &lt;SF,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE&gt;  CR: 2828220f  XER: 0000000e
CFAR: c0000000001fdc80 IRQMASK: 0
[ ... GPRs omitted ... ]
NIP [c0000000005d23d4] usercopy_abort+0x78/0xb0
LR [c0000000005d23d0] usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0
Call Trace:
 usercopy_abort+0x74/0xb0 (unreliable)
 __check_heap_object+0xf8/0x120
 check_heap_object+0x218/0x240
 __check_object_size+0x84/0x1a4
 dtl_file_read+0x17c/0x2c4
 full_proxy_read+0x8c/0x110
 vfs_read+0xdc/0x3a0
 ksys_read+0x84/0x144
 system_call_exception+0x124/0x330
 system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
--- interrupt: 3000 at 0x7fff81f3ab34

Commit 6d07d1cd300f (“usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0”)
requires that only whitelisted areas in slab/slub objects can be copied to
userspace when usercopy hardening is enabled using CONFIG_HARDENED_USERCOPY.
Dtl contains hypervisor dispatch events which are expected to be read by
privileged users. Hence mark this safe for user access.
Specify useroffset=0 and usersize=DISPATCH_LOG_BYTES to whitelist the
entire object.

CNA Affected

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