linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-56673: riscv: mm: Do not call pmd dtor on vmemmap page table teardown

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Message-ID: <2024122756-CVE-2024-56673-1ce5@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2024 16:07:10 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-56673: riscv: mm: Do not call pmd dtor on vmemmap page table teardown

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

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

riscv: mm: Do not call pmd dtor on vmemmap page table teardown

The vmemmap's, which is used for RV64 with SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP, page
tables are populated using pmd (page middle directory) hugetables.
However, the pmd allocation is not using the generic mechanism used by
the VMA code (e.g. pmd_alloc()), or the RISC-V specific
create_pgd_mapping()/alloc_pmd_late(). Instead, the vmemmap page table
code allocates a page, and calls vmemmap_set_pmd(). This results in
that the pmd ctor is *not* called, nor would it make sense to do so.

Now, when tearing down a vmemmap page table pmd, the cleanup code
would unconditionally, and incorrectly call the pmd dtor, which
results in a crash (best case).

This issue was found when running the HMM selftests:

  | tools/testing/selftests/mm# ./test_hmm.sh smoke
  | ... # when unloading the test_hmm.ko module
  | page: refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10915b
  | flags: 0x1000000000000000(node=0|zone=1)
  | raw: 1000000000000000 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
  | raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
  | page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(ptdesc->pmd_huge_pte)
  | ------------[ cut here ]------------
  | kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:3080!
  | Kernel BUG [#1]
  | Modules linked in: test_hmm(-) sch_fq_codel fuse drm drm_panel_orientation_quirks backlight dm_mod
  | CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 514 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G        W          6.12.0-00982-gf2a4f1682d07 #2
  | Tainted: [W]=WARN
  | Hardware name: riscv-virtio qemu/qemu, BIOS 2024.10 10/01/2024
  | epc : remove_pgd_mapping+0xbec/0x1070
  |  ra : remove_pgd_mapping+0xbec/0x1070
  | epc : ffffffff80010a68 ra : ffffffff80010a68 sp : ff20000000a73940
  |  gp : ffffffff827b2d88 tp : ff6000008785da40 t0 : ffffffff80fbce04
  |  t1 : 0720072007200720 t2 : 706d756420656761 s0 : ff20000000a73a50
  |  s1 : ff6000008915cff8 a0 : 0000000000000039 a1 : 0000000000000008
  |  a2 : ff600003fff0de20 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
  |  a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : c0000000ffffefff a7 : ffffffff824469b8
  |  s2 : ff1c0000022456c0 s3 : ff1ffffffdbfffff s4 : ff6000008915c000
  |  s5 : ff6000008915c000 s6 : ff6000008915c000 s7 : ff1ffffffdc00000
  |  s8 : 0000000000000001 s9 : ff1ffffffdc00000 s10: ffffffff819a31f0
  |  s11: ffffffffffffffff t3 : ffffffff8000c950 t4 : ff60000080244f00
  |  t5 : ff60000080244000 t6 : ff20000000a73708
  | status: 0000000200000120 badaddr: ffffffff80010a68 cause: 0000000000000003
  | [<ffffffff80010a68>] remove_pgd_mapping+0xbec/0x1070
  | [<ffffffff80fd238e>] vmemmap_free+0x14/0x1e
  | [<ffffffff8032e698>] section_deactivate+0x220/0x452
  | [<ffffffff8032ef7e>] sparse_remove_section+0x4a/0x58
  | [<ffffffff802f8700>] __remove_pages+0x7e/0xba
  | [<ffffffff803760d8>] memunmap_pages+0x2bc/0x3fe
  | [<ffffffff02a3ca28>] dmirror_device_remove_chunks+0x2ea/0x518 [test_hmm]
  | [<ffffffff02a3e026>] hmm_dmirror_exit+0x3e/0x1018 [test_hmm]
  | [<ffffffff80102c14>] __riscv_sys_delete_module+0x15a/0x2a6
  | [<ffffffff80fd020c>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x1f2/0x266
  | [<ffffffff80fde0a2>] _new_vmalloc_restore_context_a0+0xc6/0xd2
  | Code: bf51 7597 0184 8593 76a5 854a 4097 0029 80e7 2c00 (9002) 7597
  | ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
  | Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Add a check to avoid calling the pmd dtor, if the calling context is
vmemmap_free().

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-56673 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit c75a74f4ba19c904c0ae1e011ae2568449409ae4 and fixed in 6.12.6 with commit 344945806f2f7af68be98bac02836c867f223aa9
	Issue introduced in 6.11 with commit c75a74f4ba19c904c0ae1e011ae2568449409ae4 and fixed in 6.13-rc3 with commit 21f1b85c8912262adf51707e63614a114425eb10

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-2024-56673
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:
	arch/riscv/mm/init.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/344945806f2f7af68be98bac02836c867f223aa9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/21f1b85c8912262adf51707e63614a114425eb10