CVE-2024-40917

memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

published July 12, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
17.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES

On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb:

ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug

the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer

being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously

NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used.

No NUMA configuration found

Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff]

was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of

memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This

in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES

triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to

access node 64's (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data.

To compensate said change, make memblock_set_node() warn on and adjust

a passed in value of MAX_NUMNODES, just like various other functions

already do.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00267 · 17.8th percentile
Published
2024-07-12T12:25Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 JUL 12:25Z
    memblock: make memblock_set_node() also warn about use of MAX_NUMNODES
    cvelistv5