linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-50254: bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits

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Message-ID: <2024110938-CVE-2024-50254-535a@gregkh>
Date: Sat,  9 Nov 2024 11:16:02 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-50254: bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy()

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

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

bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy()

bpf_iter_bits_destroy() uses "kit->nr_bits <= 64" to check whether the
bits are dynamically allocated. However, the check is incorrect and may
cause a kmemleak as shown below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812628c8c0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294727320
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
	b0 c1 55 f5 81 88 ff ff f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0  ..U...........
	f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..............
  backtrace (crc 781e32cc):
	[<00000000c452b4ab>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80
	[<0000000004e09f80>] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x480/0x5c0
	[<00000000597124d6>] __alloc.isra.0+0x89/0xb0
	[<000000004ebfffcd>] alloc_bulk+0x2af/0x720
	[<00000000d9c10145>] prefill_mem_cache+0x7f/0xb0
	[<00000000ff9738ff>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0x3e2/0x610
	[<000000008b616eac>] bpf_global_ma_init+0x19/0x30
	[<00000000fc473efc>] do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x3c0
	[<00000000ec81498c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x66a/0x940
	[<00000000b119f72f>] kernel_init+0x20/0x160
	[<00000000f11ac9a7>] ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x70
	[<0000000004671da4>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

That is because nr_bits will be set as zero in bpf_iter_bits_next()
after all bits have been iterated.

Fix the issue by setting kit->bit to kit->nr_bits instead of setting
kit->nr_bits to zero when the iteration completes in
bpf_iter_bits_next(). In addition, use "!nr_bits || bits >= nr_bits" to
check whether the iteration is complete and still use "nr_bits > 64" to
indicate whether bits are dynamically allocated. The "!nr_bits" check is
necessary because bpf_iter_bits_new() may fail before setting
kit->nr_bits, and this condition will stop the iteration early instead
of accessing the zeroed or freed kit->bits.

Considering the initial value of kit->bits is -1 and the type of
kit->nr_bits is unsigned int, change the type of kit->nr_bits to int.
The potential overflow problem will be handled in the following patch.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-50254 to this issue.

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

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 4665415975b0 and fixed in 6.11.7 with commit 9cee266fafaf
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit 4665415975b0 and fixed in 6.12-rc6 with commit 101ccfbabf47

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-2024-50254
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:
	kernel/bpf/helpers.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/9cee266fafaf79fd465314546f637f9a3c215830
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/101ccfbabf4738041273ce64e2b116cf440dea13