Bug 2297498 (CVE-2024-40914)

Summary:	CVE-2024-40914 kernel: mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	kernel 5.15.162, kernel 6.1.95, kernel 6.6.35, kernel 6.9.6, kernel 6.10-rc1	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's memory management component in the unpoison_memory() function, where it involves improper handling of huge_zero_folio when memory failures occur, which can lead to a kernel panic due to an erroneous reference count.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-12 13:31:06 UTC

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

mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio

When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:

 kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135!
 invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00491-gd5ce28f156fe-dirty #14
 RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0
 RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246
 RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0
 RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492
 R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  do_shrink_slab+0x14f/0x6a0
  shrink_slab+0xca/0x8c0
  shrink_node+0x2d0/0x7d0
  balance_pgdat+0x33a/0x720
  kswapd+0x1f3/0x410
  kthread+0xd5/0x100
  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
  </TASK>
 Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
 ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
 RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0
 RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246
 RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8
 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0
 RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492
 R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00
 FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

The root cause is that HWPoison flag will be set for huge_zero_folio
without increasing the folio refcnt.  But then unpoison_memory() will
decrease the folio refcnt unexpectedly as it appears like a successfully
hwpoisoned folio leading to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0) when
releasing huge_zero_folio.

Skip unpoisoning huge_zero_folio in unpoison_memory() to fix this issue. 
We're not prepared to unpoison huge_zero_folio yet.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2024-08-28 12:20:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2024:5928 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:5928

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-04 00:11:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6268 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6268

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-04 00:25:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6267 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6267