Description

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

powerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()

During early init CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES can be PAGE_SIZE,
since pageblock_order is still zero and it gets initialized
later during initmem_init() e.g.
setup_arch() -> initmem_init() -> sparse_init() -> set_pageblock_order()

One such use case where this causes issue is -
early_setup() -> early_init_devtree() -> fadump_reserve_mem() -> fadump_cma_init()

This causes CMA memory alignment check to be bypassed in
cma_init_reserved_mem(). Then later cma_activate_area() can hit
a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1)) if the reserved memory
area was not pageblock_order aligned.

Fix it by moving the fadump_cma_init() after initmem_init(),
where other such cma reservations also gets called.

==============
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10010
flags: 0x13ffff800000000(node=1|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff) CMA
raw: 013ffff800000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:778!

Call Trace:
__free_one_page+0x57c/0x7b0 (unreliable)
free_pcppages_bulk+0x1a8/0x2c8
free_unref_page_commit+0x3d4/0x4e4
free_unref_page+0x458/0x6d0
init_cma_reserved_pageblock+0x114/0x198
cma_init_reserved_areas+0x270/0x3...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-56677

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (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/aabef6301dcf410dfd2b8759cd413b2a003c7e3f
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c1d1ef70834013fc3bd12b6a0f4664c6d75a74
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f551637fe9bf863386309e03f9d148d97f535ad1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7351c5a6507b4401aeecadb5959131410a339520
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b94cae1c47f94588c3e7096963c1007c4d9c1d

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