linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53699: riscv: move memblock_allow

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Message-ID: <2025102211-CVE-2023-53699-44cc@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:24:38 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53699: riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after linear mapping is ready

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

riscv: move memblock_allow_resize() after linear mapping is ready

The initial memblock metadata is accessed from kernel image mapping. The
regions arrays need to "reallocated" from memblock and accessed through
linear mapping to cover more memblock regions. So the resizing should
not be allowed until linear mapping is ready. Note that there are
memblock allocations when building linear mapping.

This patch is similar to 24cc61d8cb5a ("arm64: memblock: don't permit
memblock resizing until linear mapping is up").

In following log, many memblock regions are reserved before
create_linear_mapping_page_table(). And then it triggered reallocation
of memblock.reserved.regions and memcpy the old array in kernel image
mapping to the new array in linear mapping which caused a page fault.

[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf01f000-0x00000000bf01ffff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf021000-0x00000000bf021fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf023000-0x00000000bf023fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf025000-0x00000000bf025fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf027000-0x00000000bf027fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf029000-0x00000000bf029fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02b000-0x00000000bf02bfff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02d000-0x00000000bf02dfff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf02f000-0x00000000bf02ffff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf030000-0x00000000bf030fff] early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem+0x28c/0x2c6
[    0.000000] OF: reserved mem: 0x0000000080000000..0x000000008007ffff (512 KiB) map non-reusable mmode_resv0@...00000
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x00000000bf000000-0x00000000bf001fed] paging_init+0x19a/0x5ae
[    0.000000] memblock_phys_alloc_range: 4096 bytes align=0x1000 from=0x0000000000000000 max_addr=0x0000000000000000 alloc_pmd_fixmap+0x14/0x1c
[    0.000000] memblock_reserve: [0x000000017ffff000-0x000000017fffffff] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xb8/0x128
[    0.000000] memblock: reserved is doubled to 256 at [0x000000017fffd000-0x000000017fffe7ff]
[    0.000000] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ff600000ffffd000
[    0.000000] Oops [#1]
[    0.000000] Modules linked in:
[    0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.4.0-rc1-00011-g99a670b2069c #66
[    0.000000] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[    0.000000] epc : __memcpy+0x60/0xf8
[    0.000000]  ra : memblock_double_array+0x192/0x248
[    0.000000] epc : ffffffff8081d214 ra : ffffffff80a3dfc0 sp : ffffffff81403bd0
[    0.000000]  gp : ffffffff814fbb38 tp : ffffffff8140dac0 t0 : 0000000001600000
[    0.000000]  t1 : 0000000000000000 t2 : 000000008f001000 s0 : ffffffff81403c60
[    0.000000]  s1 : ffffffff80c0bc98 a0 : ff600000ffffd000 a1 : ffffffff80c0bcd8
[    0.000000]  a2 : 0000000000000c00 a3 : ffffffff80c0c8d8 a4 : 0000000080000000
[    0.000000]  a5 : 0000000000080000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000080200000
[    0.000000]  s2 : ff600000ffffd000 s3 : 0000000000002000 s4 : 0000000000000c00
[    0.000000]  s5 : ffffffff80c0bc60 s6 : ffffffff80c0bcc8 s7 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s8 : ffffffff814fd0a8 s9 : 000000017fffe7ff s10: 0000000000000000
[    0.000000]  s11: 0000000000001000 t3 : 0000000000001000 t4 : 0000000000000000
[    0.000000]  t5 : 000000008f003000 t6 : ff600000ffffd000
[    0.000000] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ff600000ffffd000 cause: 000000000000000f
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff8081d214>] __memcpy+0x60/0xf8
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a3e1a2>] memblock_add_range.isra.14+0x12c/0x162
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a3e36a>] memblock_reserve+0x6e/0x8c
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a123fc>] memblock_alloc_range_nid+0xb8/0x128
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a1256a>] memblock_phys_alloc_range+0x5e/0x6a
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a04732>] alloc_pmd_fixmap+0x14/0x1c
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a0475a>] alloc_p4d_fixmap+0xc/0x14
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a04a36>] create_pgd_mapping+0x98/0x17c
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a04e9e>] create_linear_mapping_range.constprop.10+0xe4/0x112
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a05bb8>] paging_init+0x3ec/0x5ae
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a03354>] setup_arch+0xb2/0x576
[    0.000000] [<ffffffff80a00726>] start_kernel+0x72/0x57e
[    0.000000] Code: b303 0285 b383 0305 be03 0385 be83 0405 bf03 0485 (b023) 00ef
[    0.000000] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[    0.000000] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
[    0.000000] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task! ]---

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53699 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 5.3 with commit 671f9a3e2e24cdeb2d2856abee7422f093e23e29 and fixed in 5.15.121 with commit a4284246fca2ef482a8fcf5ad7d2c33a45b41e9c
	Issue introduced in 5.3 with commit 671f9a3e2e24cdeb2d2856abee7422f093e23e29 and fixed in 6.1.39 with commit 0a1b80ff4f721c4be98707bfe9d20238df133eb8
	Issue introduced in 5.3 with commit 671f9a3e2e24cdeb2d2856abee7422f093e23e29 and fixed in 6.4.4 with commit ba11f4e59509538810e5c44578fc73984acdf1d7
	Issue introduced in 5.3 with commit 671f9a3e2e24cdeb2d2856abee7422f093e23e29 and fixed in 6.5 with commit 85fadc0d04119c2fe4a20287767ab904c6d21ba1

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-2023-53699
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/a4284246fca2ef482a8fcf5ad7d2c33a45b41e9c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a1b80ff4f721c4be98707bfe9d20238df133eb8
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba11f4e59509538810e5c44578fc73984acdf1d7
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85fadc0d04119c2fe4a20287767ab904c6d21ba1