Bug 2348303 (CVE-2022-49666) - CVE-2022-49666 kernel: powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC
Summary: CVE-2022-49666 kernel: powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49666
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-02-26 03:24 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-02-28 04:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-26 03:24:44 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC

With commit ffa0b64e3be5 ("powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit")
the kernel now validate the addr against high_memory value. This results
in the below BUG_ON with dax pfns.

[  635.798741][T26531] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5521!
1:mon> e
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007287630]
    pc: c00000000055ed48: free_pages.part.0+0x48/0x110
    lr: c00000000053ca70: tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
    sp: c0000000072878d0
   msr: 800000000282b033
  current = 0xc00000000afabe00
  paca    = 0xc00000037ffff300   irqmask: 0x03   irq_happened: 0x05
    pid   = 26531, comm = 50-landscape-sy
kernel BUG at :5521!
Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-14659-g4ec05be7c2e1 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #625 SMP Thu Jun 23 00:35:43 CDT 2022
1:mon> t
[link register   ] c00000000053ca70 tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
[c0000000072878d0] c00000000053ca54 tlb_finish_mmu+0x64/0xd0 (unreliable)
[c000000007287900] c000000000539424 exit_mmap+0xe4/0x2a0
[c0000000072879e0] c00000000019fc1c mmput+0xcc/0x210
[c000000007287a20] c000000000629230 begin_new_exec+0x5e0/0xf40
[c000000007287ae0] c00000000070b3cc load_elf_binary+0x3ac/0x1e00
[c000000007287c10] c000000000627af0 bprm_execve+0x3b0/0xaf0
[c000000007287cd0] c000000000628414 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1e4/0x310
[c000000007287d80] c00000000062858c sys_execve+0x4c/0x60
[c000000007287db0] c00000000002c1b0 system_call_exception+0x160/0x2c0
[c000000007287e10] c00000000000c53c system_call_common+0xec/0x250

The fix is to make sure we update high_memory on memory hotplug.
This is similar to what x86 does in commit 3072e413e305 ("mm/memory_hotplug: introduce add_pages")

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-26 14:05:08 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022623-CVE-2022-49666-98ab@gregkh/T

Comment 4 Avinash Hanwate 2025-02-27 14:08:07 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025022623-CVE-2022-49666-98ab@gregkh/T


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