Bug 2347739 (CVE-2022-49081)

Summary: CVE-2022-49081 kernel: highmem: fix checks in __kmap_local_sched_{in,out}
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:05:04 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

highmem: fix checks in __kmap_local_sched_{in,out}

When CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL is enabled __kmap_local_sched_{in,out} check
that even slots in the tsk->kmap_ctrl.pteval are unmapped.  The slots are
initialized with 0 value, but the check is done with pte_none.  0 pte
however does not necessarily mean that pte_none will return true.  e.g.
on xtensa it returns false, resulting in the following runtime warnings:

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/highmem.c:627 __kmap_local_sched_out+0x51/0x108
 CPU: 0 PID: 101 Comm: touch Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-00010-gd3a1cdde80d2-dirty #13
 Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0xc/0x40
   __warn+0x8f/0x174
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0xac
   __kmap_local_sched_out+0x51/0x108
   __schedule+0x71a/0x9c4
   preempt_schedule_irq+0xa0/0xe0
   common_exception_return+0x5c/0x93
   do_wp_page+0x30e/0x330
   handle_mm_fault+0xa70/0xc3c
   do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x3c4
   common_exception+0x7f/0x7f

 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/highmem.c:664 __kmap_local_sched_in+0x50/0xe0
 CPU: 0 PID: 101 Comm: touch Tainted: G        W         5.17.0-rc7-00010-gd3a1cdde80d2-dirty #13
 Call Trace:
   dump_stack+0xc/0x40
   __warn+0x8f/0x174
   warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0xac
   __kmap_local_sched_in+0x50/0xe0
   finish_task_switch$isra$0+0x1ce/0x2f8
   __schedule+0x86e/0x9c4
   preempt_schedule_irq+0xa0/0xe0
   common_exception_return+0x5c/0x93
   do_wp_page+0x30e/0x330
   handle_mm_fault+0xa70/0xc3c
   do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x3c4
   common_exception+0x7f/0x7f

Fix it by replacing !pte_none(pteval) with pte_val(pteval) != 0.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 20:42:26 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022657-CVE-2022-49081-7a0f@gregkh/T