Bug 2324883 (CVE-2024-50254)

Summary: CVE-2024-50254 kernel: bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-09 11:03:07 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bpf: Free dynamically allocated bits in bpf_iter_bits_destroy()

bpf_iter_bits_destroy() uses "kit->nr_bits <= 64" to check whether the
bits are dynamically allocated. However, the check is incorrect and may
cause a kmemleak as shown below:

unreferenced object 0xffff88812628c8c0 (size 32):
  comm "swapper/0", pid 1, jiffies 4294727320
  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
	b0 c1 55 f5 81 88 ff ff f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0  ..U...........
	f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ..............
  backtrace (crc 781e32cc):
	[<00000000c452b4ab>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4b/0x80
	[<0000000004e09f80>] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x480/0x5c0
	[<00000000597124d6>] __alloc.isra.0+0x89/0xb0
	[<000000004ebfffcd>] alloc_bulk+0x2af/0x720
	[<00000000d9c10145>] prefill_mem_cache+0x7f/0xb0
	[<00000000ff9738ff>] bpf_mem_alloc_init+0x3e2/0x610
	[<000000008b616eac>] bpf_global_ma_init+0x19/0x30
	[<00000000fc473efc>] do_one_initcall+0xd3/0x3c0
	[<00000000ec81498c>] kernel_init_freeable+0x66a/0x940
	[<00000000b119f72f>] kernel_init+0x20/0x160
	[<00000000f11ac9a7>] ret_from_fork+0x3c/0x70
	[<0000000004671da4>] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

That is because nr_bits will be set as zero in bpf_iter_bits_next()
after all bits have been iterated.

Fix the issue by setting kit->bit to kit->nr_bits instead of setting
kit->nr_bits to zero when the iteration completes in
bpf_iter_bits_next(). In addition, use "!nr_bits || bits >= nr_bits" to
check whether the iteration is complete and still use "nr_bits > 64" to
indicate whether bits are dynamically allocated. The "!nr_bits" check is
necessary because bpf_iter_bits_new() may fail before setting
kit->nr_bits, and this condition will stop the iteration early instead
of accessing the zeroed or freed kit->bits.

Considering the initial value of kit->bits is -1 and the type of
kit->nr_bits is unsigned int, change the type of kit->nr_bits to int.
The potential overflow problem will be handled in the following patch.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2024-11-11 06:00:29 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024110938-CVE-2024-50254-535a@gregkh/T