Bug 2327372 (CVE-2024-53049)

Summary: CVE-2024-53049 kernel: slub/kunit: fix a WARNING due to unwrapped __kmalloc_cache_noprof
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-11-19 18:03:42 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

slub/kunit: fix a WARNING due to unwrapped __kmalloc_cache_noprof

'modprobe slub_kunit' will have a warning as shown below. The root cause
is that __kmalloc_cache_noprof was directly used, which resulted in no
alloc_tag being allocated. This caused current->alloc_tag to be null,
leading to a warning in alloc_tag_add_check.

Let's add an alloc_hook layer to __kmalloc_cache_noprof specifically
within lib/slub_kunit.c, which is the only user of this internal slub
function outside kmalloc implementation itself.

[58162.947016] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 6210 at
./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:125 alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook+0x268/0x27c
[58162.957721] Call trace:
[58162.957919]  alloc_tagging_slab_alloc_hook+0x268/0x27c
[58162.958286]  __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x14c/0x344
[58162.958615]  test_kmalloc_redzone_access+0x50/0x10c [slub_kunit]
[58162.959045]  kunit_try_run_case+0x74/0x184 [kunit]
[58162.959401]  kunit_generic_run_threadfn_adapter+0x2c/0x4c [kunit]
[58162.959841]  kthread+0x10c/0x118
[58162.960093]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[58162.960363] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2024-11-19 20:55:30 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2024111926-CVE-2024-53049-fa45@gregkh/T