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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-48731

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 6/20/2024 8:15:11 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes

When using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to
add ZONE_DEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were
huge(e.g., 0x400000000), the node_end_pfn() will be also huge (see
move_pfn_range_to_zone()).  Thus it creates a huge hole between
node_start_pfn() and node_end_pfn().

We found on some AMD APUs, amdkfd requested such a free mem region and
created a huge hole.  In such a case, following code snippet was just
doing busy test_bit() looping on the huge hole.

  for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
	struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
		if (!page)
			continue;
	...
  }

So we got a soft lockup:

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! [bash:1221]
  CPU: 6 PID: 1221 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.15.0-custom #1
  RIP: 0010:pfn_to_online_page+0x5/0xd0
  Call Trace:
    ? kmemleak_scan+0x16a/0x440
    kmemleak_write+0x306/0x3a0
    ? common_file_perm+0x72/0x170
    full_proxy_write+0x5c/0x90
    vfs_write+0xb9/0x260
    ksys_write+0x67/0xe0
    __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
    do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

I did some tests with the patch.

(1) amdgpu module unloaded

before the patch:

  real    0m0.976s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.968s

after the patch:

  real    0m0.981s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m0.973s

(2) amdgpu module loaded

before the patch:

  real    0m35.365s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m35.354s

after the patch:

  real    0m1.049s
  user    0m0.000s
  sys     0m1.042s
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/352715593e81b917ce1b321e794549815b850134 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5389c80992f0001ee505838fe6a8b20897ce96e [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c10a0f877fe007021d70f9cada240f42adc2b5db [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cebb0aceb21ad91429617a40e3a17444fabf1529 [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3533ee20e9a0e2e8f60384da7450d43d1c63d1a [No types assigned]