Bug 2298107 (CVE-2021-47623)

Summary:	CVE-2021-47623 kernel: powerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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OS:	Linux
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-16 12:21:32 UTC

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

powerpc/fixmap: Fix VM debug warning on unmap

Unmapping a fixmap entry is done by calling __set_fixmap()
with FIXMAP_PAGE_CLEAR as flags.

Today, powerpc __set_fixmap() calls map_kernel_page().

map_kernel_page() is not happy when called a second time
for the same page.

	WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:194 set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8
	CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty #682
	NIP:  c0017cd4 LR: c00187f0 CTR: 00000010
	REGS: e1011d50 TRAP: 0700   Not tainted  (5.16.0-rc3-s3k-dev-01993-g350ff07feb7d-dirty)
	MSR:  00029032 <EE,ME,IR,DR,RI>  CR: 42000208  XER: 00000000

	GPR00: c0165fec e1011e10 c14c0000 c0ee2550 ff800000 c0f3d000 00000000 c001686c
	GPR08: 00001000 b00045a9 00000001 c0f58460 c0f50000 00000000 c0007e10 00000000
	GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
	GPR24: 00000000 00000000 c0ee2550 00000000 c0f57000 00000ff8 00000000 ff800000
	NIP [c0017cd4] set_pte_at+0xc/0x1e8
	LR [c00187f0] map_kernel_page+0x9c/0x100
	Call Trace:
	[e1011e10] [c0736c68] vsnprintf+0x358/0x6c8 (unreliable)
	[e1011e30] [c0165fec] __set_fixmap+0x30/0x44
	[e1011e40] [c0c13bdc] early_iounmap+0x11c/0x170
	[e1011e70] [c0c06cb0] ioremap_legacy_serial_console+0x88/0xc0
	[e1011e90] [c0c03634] do_one_initcall+0x80/0x178
	[e1011ef0] [c0c0385c] kernel_init_freeable+0xb4/0x250
	[e1011f20] [c0007e34] kernel_init+0x24/0x140
	[e1011f30] [c0016268] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64
	Instruction dump:
	7fe3fb78 48019689 80010014 7c630034 83e1000c 5463d97e 7c0803a6 38210010
	4e800020 81250000 712a0001 41820008 <0fe00000> 9421ffe0 93e1001c 48000030

Implement unmap_kernel_page() which clears an existing pte.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-24 00:47:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2024:6991 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6991