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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD5.5 Medium

CVE-2022-48731

mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes When using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to add ZONE_DEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were huge(e.g., 0x400000000), the node_end_pfn() will be also huge (see move_pfn_range_to_zone()). Thus it creates a huge hole between node_start_pfn() and node_end_pfn(). We found on some AMD APUs, amdkfd requested such a free mem region and created a huge hole. In such a case, following code snippet was just doing busy test_bit() looping on the huge hole. for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) { struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn); if (!page) continue; ... } So we got a soft lockup: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! [bash:1221] CPU: 6 PID: 1221 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.15.0-custom #1 RIP: 0010:pfn_to_online_page+0x5/0xd0 Call Trace: ? kmemleak_scan+0x16a/0x440 kmemleak_write+0x306/0x3a0 ? common_file_perm+0x72/0x170 full_proxy_write+0x5c/0x90 vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae I did some tests with the patch. (1) amdgpu module unloaded before the patch: real 0m0.976s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.968s after the patch: real 0m0.981s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.973s (2) amdgpu module loaded before the patch: real 0m35.365s user 0m0.000s sys 0m35.354s after the patch: real 0m1.049s user 0m0.000s sys 0m1.042s

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378 to < d3533ee20e9a0e2e8f60384da7450d43d1c63d1aaffected
  • 4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378 to < 352715593e81b917ce1b321e794549815b850134affected
  • 4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378 to < a5389c80992f0001ee505838fe6a8b20897ce96eaffected
  • 4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378 to < cebb0aceb21ad91429617a40e3a17444fabf1529affected
  • 4ef589dc9b10cdcae75a2b2b0e9b2c5e8a92c378 to < c10a0f877fe007021d70f9cada240f42adc2b5dbaffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 4.14affected
  • 0 to < 4.14unaffected
  • 5.4.178 to ≤ 5.4.*unaffected
  • 5.10.99 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.22 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 5.16.8 to ≤ 5.16.*unaffected
  • 5.17 to ≤ *unaffected

References