CVE-2021-47640

powerpc/kasan: Fix early region not updated correctly

High · published February 26, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

powerpc/kasan: Fix early region not updated correctly

The shadow's page table is not updated when PTE_RPN_SHIFT is 24

and PAGE_SHIFT is 12. It not only causes false positives but

also false negative as shown the following text.

Fix it by bringing the logic of kasan_early_shadow_page_entry here.

1. False Positive:

==================================================================

BUG: KASAN: vmalloc-out-of-bounds in pcpu_alloc+0x508/0xa50

Write of size 16 at addr f57f3be0 by task swapper/0/1

CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.15.0-12267-gdebe436e77c7 #1

Call Trace:

[c80d1c20] [c07fe7b8] dump_stack_lvl+0x4c/0x6c (unreliable)

[c80d1c40] [c02ff668] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x88/0x300

[c80d1c70] [c02ff45c] kasan_report+0x1ec/0x200

[c80d1cb0] [c0300b20] kasan_check_range+0x160/0x2f0

[c80d1cc0] [c03018a4] memset+0x34/0x90

[c80d1ce0] [c0280108] pcpu_alloc+0x508/0xa50

[c80d1d40] [c02fd7bc] __kmem_cache_create+0xfc/0x570

[c80d1d70] [c0283d64] kmem_cache_create_usercopy+0x274/0x3e0

[c80d1db0] [c2036580] init_sd+0xc4/0x1d0

[c80d1de0] [c00044a0] do_one_initcall+0xc0/0x33c

[c80d1eb0] [c2001624] kernel_init_freeable+0x2c8/0x384

[c80d1ef0] [c0004b14] kernel_init+0x24/0x170

[c80d1f10] [c001b26c] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64

Memory state around the buggy address:

f57f3a80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

f57f3b00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

>f57f3b80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

^

f57f3c00: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

f57f3c80: f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8 f8

==================================================================

2. False Negative (with KASAN tests):

==================================================================

Before fix:

ok 45 - kmalloc_double_kzfree

# vmalloc_oob: EXPECTATION FAILED at lib/test_kasan.c:1039

KASAN failure expected in "((volatile char *)area)[3100]", but none occurred

not ok 46 - vmalloc_oob

not ok 1 - kasan

==================================================================

After fix:

ok 1 - kasan

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00261 · 16.8th percentile
Published
2025-02-26T01:54Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 26 FEB 01:54Z
    powerpc/kasan: Fix early region not updated correctly
    cvelistv5