CVE-2022-48802
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
16/07/2024
Last modified:
04/05/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
fs/proc: task_mmu.c: don&#39;t read mapcount for migration entry<br />
<br />
The syzbot reported the below BUG:<br />
<br />
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:785!<br />
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN<br />
CPU: 1 PID: 4392 Comm: syz-executor560 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc6-syzkaller #0<br />
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011<br />
RIP: 0010:PageDoubleMap include/linux/page-flags.h:785 [inline]<br />
RIP: 0010:__page_mapcount+0x2d2/0x350 mm/util.c:744<br />
Call Trace:<br />
page_mapcount include/linux/mm.h:837 [inline]<br />
smaps_account+0x470/0xb10 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:466<br />
smaps_pte_entry fs/proc/task_mmu.c:538 [inline]<br />
smaps_pte_range+0x611/0x1250 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:601<br />
walk_pmd_range mm/pagewalk.c:128 [inline]<br />
walk_pud_range mm/pagewalk.c:205 [inline]<br />
walk_p4d_range mm/pagewalk.c:240 [inline]<br />
walk_pgd_range mm/pagewalk.c:277 [inline]<br />
__walk_page_range+0xe23/0x1ea0 mm/pagewalk.c:379<br />
walk_page_vma+0x277/0x350 mm/pagewalk.c:530<br />
smap_gather_stats.part.0+0x148/0x260 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:768<br />
smap_gather_stats fs/proc/task_mmu.c:741 [inline]<br />
show_smap+0xc6/0x440 fs/proc/task_mmu.c:822<br />
seq_read_iter+0xbb0/0x1240 fs/seq_file.c:272<br />
seq_read+0x3e0/0x5b0 fs/seq_file.c:162<br />
vfs_read+0x1b5/0x600 fs/read_write.c:479<br />
ksys_read+0x12d/0x250 fs/read_write.c:619<br />
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]<br />
do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae<br />
<br />
The reproducer was trying to read /proc/$PID/smaps when calling<br />
MADV_FREE at the mean time. MADV_FREE may split THPs if it is called<br />
for partial THP. It may trigger the below race:<br />
<br />
CPU A CPU B<br />
----- -----<br />
smaps walk: MADV_FREE:<br />
page_mapcount()<br />
PageCompound()<br />
split_huge_page()<br />
page = compound_head(page)<br />
PageDoubleMap(page)<br />
<br />
When calling PageDoubleMap() this page is not a tail page of THP anymore<br />
so the BUG is triggered.<br />
<br />
This could be fixed by elevated refcount of the page before calling<br />
mapcount, but that would prevent it from counting migration entries, and<br />
it seems overkilling because the race just could happen when PMD is<br />
split so all PTE entries of tail pages are actually migration entries,<br />
and smaps_account() does treat migration entries as mapcount == 1 as<br />
Kirill pointed out.<br />
<br />
Add a new parameter for smaps_account() to tell this entry is migration<br />
entry then skip calling page_mapcount(). Don&#39;t skip getting mapcount<br />
for device private entries since they do track references with mapcount.<br />
<br />
Pagemap also has the similar issue although it was not reported. Fixed<br />
it as well.<br />
<br />
[shy828301@gmail.com: v4]<br />
[nathan@kernel.org: avoid unused variable warning in pagemap_pmd_range()]
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d3f8045efa59457b323caf00bdb9273b7962fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d7275ce2791829953ed4e72f68277ceb2571c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8dd0cfa37792863b6c4bf9542975212a6715d49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db3f3636e4aed2cba3e4e7897a053323f7a62249
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05d3f8045efa59457b323caf00bdb9273b7962fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/24d7275ce2791829953ed4e72f68277ceb2571c6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a8dd0cfa37792863b6c4bf9542975212a6715d49
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db3f3636e4aed2cba3e4e7897a053323f7a62249