Bug 2300395 (CVE-2024-41031)

Summary:	CVE-2024-41031 kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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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 6.6.41, kernel 6.9.10, kernel 6.10	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel related to how large page caching is handled, particularly for AMD64 architectures. The issue stems from the xarray data structure's inability to support PMD-sized page caches when the base page size is larger than MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER. The particular configuration on ARM64 architectures can potentially lead to untenable resource allocation and system crashes when large pages are manipulated.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 15:31:25 UTC

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

mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

On ARM64, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER is 13 when the base page size is 64KB.  The
PMD-sized page cache can't be supported by xarray as the following error
messages indicate.

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WARNING: CPU: 35 PID: 7484 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib  \
nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct    \
nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4    \
ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm      \
fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64      \
sha1_ce virtio_net net_failover virtio_console virtio_blk failover \
dimlib virtio_mmio
CPU: 35 PID: 7484 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.10.0-rc5-gavin+ #9
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024
pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
lr : split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x720
sp : ffff800087a4f6c0
x29: ffff800087a4f6c0 x28: ffff800087a4f720 x27: 000000001fffffff
x26: 0000000000000c40 x25: 000000000000000d x24: ffff00010625b858
x23: ffff800087a4f720 x22: ffffffdfc0780000 x21: 0000000000000000
x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffdfc0780000 x18: 000000001ff40000
x17: 00000000ffffffff x16: 0000018000000000 x15: 51ec004000000000
x14: 0000e00000000000 x13: 0000000000002000 x12: 0000000000000020
x11: 51ec000000000000 x10: 51ece1c0ffff8000 x9 : ffffbeb961a44d28
x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : ffffffdfc0456420 x6 : ffff0000e1aa6eb8
x5 : 20bf08b4fe778fca x4 : ffffffdfc0456420 x3 : 0000000000000c40
x2 : 000000000000000d x1 : 000000000000000c x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128
 split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x720
 truncate_inode_partial_folio+0xdc/0x160
 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b4/0x4a8
 truncate_pagecache_range+0x84/0xa0
 xfs_flush_unmap_range+0x70/0x90 [xfs]
 xfs_file_fallocate+0xfc/0x4d8 [xfs]
 vfs_fallocate+0x124/0x2e8
 ksys_fallocate+0x4c/0xa0
 __arm64_sys_fallocate+0x24/0x38
 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x7c/0xd8
 do_el0_svc+0xb4/0xd0
 el0_svc+0x44/0x1d8
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x134/0x150
 el0t_64_sync+0x17c/0x180

Fix it by skipping to allocate PMD-sized page cache when its size is
larger than MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER.  For this specific case, we will fall to
regular path where the readahead window is determined by BDI's sysfs file
(read_ahead_kb).

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 08:50:49 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024072921-CVE-2024-41031-6286@gregkh/T

Comment 3 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-30 08:51:14 UTC

Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2301531]

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-18 00:06:44 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6745 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6745

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2024-09-18 00:17:25 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:6744 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6744

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2024-12-04 00:46:06 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2024:10771 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:10771