Bug 2315199 (CVE-2024-46847)

Summary: CVE-2024-46847 kernel: mm: vmalloc: ensure vmap_block is initialised before adding to queue
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-27 13:22:43 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: vmalloc: ensure vmap_block is initialised before adding to queue

Commit 8c61291fd850 ("mm: fix incorrect vbq reference in
purge_fragmented_block") extended the 'vmap_block' structure to contain a
'cpu' field which is set at allocation time to the id of the initialising
CPU.

When a new 'vmap_block' is being instantiated by new_vmap_block(), the
partially initialised structure is added to the local 'vmap_block_queue'
xarray before the 'cpu' field has been initialised.  If another CPU is
concurrently walking the xarray (e.g.  via vm_unmap_aliases()), then it
may perform an out-of-bounds access to the remote queue thanks to an
uninitialised index.

This has been observed as UBSAN errors in Android:

 | Internal error: UBSAN: array index out of bounds: 00000000f2005512 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
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 | Call trace:
 |  purge_fragmented_block+0x204/0x21c
 |  _vm_unmap_aliases+0x170/0x378
 |  vm_unmap_aliases+0x1c/0x28
 |  change_memory_common+0x1dc/0x26c
 |  set_memory_ro+0x18/0x24
 |  module_enable_ro+0x98/0x238
 |  do_init_module+0x1b0/0x310

Move the initialisation of 'vb->cpu' in new_vmap_block() ahead of the
addition to the xarray.