linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-26983: bootconfig: use memblock_free

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Date: Wed,  1 May 2024 07:30:44 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-26983: bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy

Description
===========

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

bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy

On the time to free xbc memory in xbc_exit(), memblock may has handed
over memory to buddy allocator. So it doesn't make sense to free memory
back to memblock. memblock_free() called by xbc_exit() even causes UAF bugs
on architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK disabled like x86.
Following KASAN logs shows this case.

This patch fixes the xbc memory free problem by calling memblock_free()
in early xbc init error rewind path and calling memblock_free_late() in
xbc exit path to free memory to buddy allocator.

[    9.410890] ==================================================================
[    9.418962] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.426850] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88845dd30000 by task swapper/0/1

[    9.435901] CPU: 9 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G     U             6.9.0-rc3-00208-g586b5dfb51b9 #5
[    9.446403] Hardware name: Intel Corporation RPLP LP5 (CPU:RaptorLake)/RPLP LP5 (ID:13), BIOS IRPPN02.01.01.00.00.19.015.D-00000000 Dec 28 2023
[    9.460789] Call Trace:
[    9.463518]  <TASK>
[    9.465859]  dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
[    9.469949]  print_report+0xce/0x610
[    9.473944]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0xf5/0x1b0
[    9.478619]  ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.483877]  kasan_report+0xc6/0x100
[    9.487870]  ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.493125]  memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.498187]  memblock_phys_free+0xb4/0x160
[    9.502762]  ? __pfx_memblock_phys_free+0x10/0x10
[    9.508021]  ? mutex_unlock+0x7e/0xd0
[    9.512111]  ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10
[    9.516786]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x430
[    9.521850]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    9.526426]  xbc_exit+0x17/0x70
[    9.529935]  kernel_init+0x38/0x1e0
[    9.533829]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xd/0x30
[    9.538601]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[    9.542596]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    9.547170]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[    9.551552]  </TASK>

[    9.555649] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[    9.561875] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x45dd30
[    9.570821] flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
[    9.576271] page_type: 0xffffffff()
[    9.580167] raw: 0200000000000000 ffffea0011774c48 ffffea0012ba1848 0000000000000000
[    9.588823] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[    9.597476] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

[    9.605362] Memory state around the buggy address:
[    9.610714]  ffff88845dd2ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[    9.618786]  ffff88845dd2ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[    9.626857] >ffff88845dd30000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.634930]                    ^
[    9.638534]  ffff88845dd30080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.646605]  ffff88845dd30100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.654675] ==================================================================

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-26983 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 40caa127f3c7 and fixed in 6.1.88 with commit 1e7feb31a18c
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 40caa127f3c7 and fixed in 6.6.29 with commit e46d3be714ad
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 40caa127f3c7 and fixed in 6.8.8 with commit 5a7dfb8fcd3f
	Issue introduced in 5.15 with commit 40caa127f3c7 and fixed in 6.9-rc5 with commit 89f9a1e876b5

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2024-26983
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/linux/bootconfig.h
	lib/bootconfig.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1e7feb31a18c197d63a5e606025ed63c762f8918
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e46d3be714ad9652480c6db129ab8125e2d20ab7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a7dfb8fcd3f29fc93161100179b27f24f3d5f35
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/89f9a1e876b5a7ad884918c03a46831af202c8a0