linux-cve-announce - CVE-2024-57885: mm/kmemleak: fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message

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Message-ID: <2025011510-CVE-2024-57885-ea46@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 14:06:08 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2024-57885: mm/kmemleak: fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message

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

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

mm/kmemleak: fix sleeping function called from invalid context at print message

Address a bug in the kernel that triggers a "sleeping function called from
invalid context" warning when /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak is printed under
specific conditions:
- CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y
- Set SELinux as the LSM for the system
- Set kptr_restrict to 1
- kmemleak buffer contains at least one item

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 136, name: cat
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 2, expected: 2
6 locks held by cat/136:
 #0: ffff32e64bcbf950 (&p->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: seq_read_iter+0xb8/0xe30
 #1: ffffafe6aaa9dea0 (scan_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kmemleak_seq_start+0x34/0x128
 #3: ffff32e6546b1cd0 (&object->lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kmemleak_seq_show+0x3c/0x1e0
 #4: ffffafe6aa8d8560 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: has_ns_capability_noaudit+0x8/0x1b0
 #5: ffffafe6aabbc0f8 (notif_lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: avc_compute_av+0xc4/0x3d0
irq event stamp: 136660
hardirqs last  enabled at (136659): [<ffffafe6a80fd7a0>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xa8/0xd8
hardirqs last disabled at (136660): [<ffffafe6a80fd85c>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x8c/0xb0
softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<ffffafe6a5d50b28>] copy_process+0x11d8/0x3df8
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffafe6a6598a4c>] kmemleak_seq_show+0x3c/0x1e0
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 136 Comm: cat Tainted: G            E      6.11.0-rt7+ #34
Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0xa0/0x128
 show_stack+0x1c/0x30
 dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x198
 dump_stack+0x18/0x20
 rt_spin_lock+0x8c/0x1a8
 avc_perm_nonode+0xa0/0x150
 cred_has_capability.isra.0+0x118/0x218
 selinux_capable+0x50/0x80
 security_capable+0x7c/0xd0
 has_ns_capability_noaudit+0x94/0x1b0
 has_capability_noaudit+0x20/0x30
 restricted_pointer+0x21c/0x4b0
 pointer+0x298/0x760
 vsnprintf+0x330/0xf70
 seq_printf+0x178/0x218
 print_unreferenced+0x1a4/0x2d0
 kmemleak_seq_show+0xd0/0x1e0
 seq_read_iter+0x354/0xe30
 seq_read+0x250/0x378
 full_proxy_read+0xd8/0x148
 vfs_read+0x190/0x918
 ksys_read+0xf0/0x1e0
 __arm64_sys_read+0x70/0xa8
 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0xd4/0x1d8
 el0_svc+0x50/0x158
 el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180

%pS and %pK, in the same back trace line, are redundant, and %pS can void
%pK service in certain contexts.

%pS alone already provides the necessary information, and if it cannot
resolve the symbol, it falls back to printing the raw address voiding
the original intent behind the %pK.

Additionally, %pK requires a privilege check CAP_SYSLOG enforced through
the LSM, which can trigger a "sleeping function called from invalid
context" warning under RT_PREEMPT kernels when the check occurs in an
atomic context. This issue may also affect other LSMs.

This change avoids the unnecessary privilege check and resolves the
sleeping function warning without any loss of information.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2024-57885 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72 and fixed in 6.6.70 with commit 86d946f3f9992aaa12abcfd09f925446c2cd42a2
	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72 and fixed in 6.12.9 with commit 64b2d32f22597b2a1dc83ac600b2426588851a97
	Issue introduced in 6.2 with commit 3a6f33d86baa8103c80f62edd9393e9f7bf25d72 and fixed in 6.13-rc6 with commit cddc76b165161a02ff14c4d84d0f5266d9d32b9e

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-2024-57885
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/kmemleak.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/86d946f3f9992aaa12abcfd09f925446c2cd42a2
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/64b2d32f22597b2a1dc83ac600b2426588851a97
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cddc76b165161a02ff14c4d84d0f5266d9d32b9e