linux-cve-announce - CVE-2021-47089: kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

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Date: Mon,  4 Mar 2024 19:11:16 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2021-47089: kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

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

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

kfence: fix memory leak when cat kfence objects

Hulk robot reported a kmemleak problem:

    unreferenced object 0xffff93d1d8cc02e8 (size 248):
      comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        00 40 85 19 d4 93 ff ff 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00  .@..............
        00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      backtrace:
         seq_open+0x2a/0x80
         full_proxy_open+0x167/0x1e0
         do_dentry_open+0x1e1/0x3a0
         path_openat+0x961/0xa20
         do_filp_open+0xae/0x120
         do_sys_openat2+0x216/0x2f0
         do_sys_open+0x57/0x80
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
    unreferenced object 0xffff93d419854000 (size 4096):
      comm "cat", pid 23327, jiffies 4624670141 (age 495992.217s)
      hex dump (first 32 bytes):
        6b 66 65 6e 63 65 2d 23 32 35 30 3a 20 30 78 30  kfence-#250: 0x0
        30 30 30 30 30 30 30 37 35 34 62 64 61 31 32 2d  0000000754bda12-
      backtrace:
         seq_read_iter+0x313/0x440
         seq_read+0x14b/0x1a0
         full_proxy_read+0x56/0x80
         vfs_read+0xa5/0x1b0
         ksys_read+0xa0/0xf0
         do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40
         entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9

I find that we can easily reproduce this problem with the following
commands:

	cat /sys/kernel/debug/kfence/objects
	echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
	cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak

The leaked memory is allocated in the stack below:

    do_syscall_64
      do_sys_open
        do_dentry_open
          full_proxy_open
            seq_open            ---> alloc seq_file
      vfs_read
        full_proxy_read
          seq_read
            seq_read_iter
              traverse          ---> alloc seq_buf

And it should have been released in the following process:

    do_syscall_64
      syscall_exit_to_user_mode
        exit_to_user_mode_prepare
          task_work_run
            ____fput
              __fput
                full_proxy_release  ---> free here

However, the release function corresponding to file_operations is not
implemented in kfence.  As a result, a memory leak occurs.  Therefore,
the solution to this problem is to implement the corresponding release
function.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2021-47089 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 0ce20dd84089 and fixed in 5.15.12 with commit 2f06c8293d27
	Issue introduced in 5.12 with commit 0ce20dd84089 and fixed in 5.16 with commit 0129ab1f268b

Please see https://www.kernel.org or 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-2021-47089
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:
	mm/kfence/core.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/2f06c8293d27f6337f907042c602c9c953988c48
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0129ab1f268b6cf88825eae819b9b84aa0a85634