Description

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

fs,hugetlb: fix NULL pointer dereference in hugetlbs_fill_super

When configuring a hugetlb filesystem via the fsconfig() syscall, there is
a possible NULL dereference in hugetlbfs_fill_super() caused by assigning
NULL to ctx->hstate in hugetlbfs_parse_param() when the requested pagesize
is non valid.

E.g: Taking the following steps:

fd = fsopen("hugetlbfs", FSOPEN_CLOEXEC);
fsconfig(fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "pagesize", "1024", 0);
fsconfig(fd, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE, NULL, NULL, 0);

Given that the requested "pagesize" is invalid, ctxt->hstate will be replaced
with NULL, losing its previous value, and we will print an error:

...
...
case Opt_pagesize:
ps = memparse(param->string, &rest);
ctx->hstate = h;
if (!ctx->hstate) {
pr_err("Unsupported page size %lu MB\n", ps / SZ_1M);
return -EINVAL;
}
return 0;
...
...

This is a problem because later on, we will dereference ctxt->hstate in
hugetlbfs_fill_super()

...
...
sb->s_blocksize = huge_page_size(ctx->hstate);
...
...

Causing below Oops.

Fix this by replacing cxt->hstate value only when then pagesize is known
to be valid.

kernel: hugetlbfs: Unsupported page size 0 MB
kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
kernel: #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
kernel: PGD 800000010f66c067 P4D 800000010f66c067 PUD 1b22f80...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26688

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.08% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dde8ef4b7a749ae1bc73617c91775631d167557
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/80d852299987a8037be145a94f41874228f1a773
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/22850c9950a4e43a67299755d11498f3292d02ff
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2e2c07104b4904aed1389a59b25799b95a85b5b9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13c5a9fb07105557a1fa9efdb4f23d7ef30b7274
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec78418801ef7b0c22cd6a30145ec480dd48db39
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/79d72c68c58784a3e1cd2378669d51bfd0cb7498

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