CVE-2024-53687

riscv: Fix IPIs usage in kfence_protect_page()

published January 11, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

riscv: Fix IPIs usage in kfence_protect_page()

flush_tlb_kernel_range() may use IPIs to flush the TLBs of all the

cores, which triggers the following warning when the irqs are disabled:

[ 3.455330] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:815 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520

[ 3.456647] Modules linked in:

[ 3.457218] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00010-g91d3de7240b8 #1

[ 3.457416] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS

[ 3.457633] epc : smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520

[ 3.457736] ra : on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x1e/0x30

[ 3.457786] epc : ffffffff800b669a ra : ffffffff800b67c2 sp : ff2000000000bb50

[ 3.457824] gp : ffffffff815212b8 tp : ff6000008014f080 t0 : 000000000000003f

[ 3.457859] t1 : ffffffff815221e0 t2 : 000000000000000f s0 : ff2000000000bc10

[ 3.457920] s1 : 0000000000000040 a0 : ffffffff815221e0 a1 : 0000000000000001

[ 3.457953] a2 : 0000000000010000 a3 : 0000000000000003 a4 : 0000000000000000

[ 3.458006] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : ffffffffffffffff a7 : 0000000000000000

[ 3.458042] s2 : ffffffff815223be s3 : 00fffffffffff000 s4 : ff600001ffe38fc0

[ 3.458076] s5 : ff600001ff950d00 s6 : 0000000200000120 s7 : 0000000000000001

[ 3.458109] s8 : 0000000000000001 s9 : ff60000080841ef0 s10: 0000000000000001

[ 3.458141] s11: ffffffff81524812 t3 : 0000000000000001 t4 : ff60000080092bc0

[ 3.458172] t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ff200000000236d0

[ 3.458203] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ffffffff800b669a cause: 0000000000000003

[ 3.458373] [<ffffffff800b669a>] smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520

[ 3.458593] [<ffffffff800b67c2>] on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x1e/0x30

[ 3.458625] [<ffffffff8000e4ca>] __flush_tlb_range+0x118/0x1ca

[ 3.458656] [<ffffffff8000e6b2>] flush_tlb_kernel_range+0x1e/0x26

[ 3.458683] [<ffffffff801ea56a>] kfence_protect+0xc0/0xce

[ 3.458717] [<ffffffff801e9456>] kfence_guarded_free+0xc6/0x1c0

[ 3.458742] [<ffffffff801e9d6c>] __kfence_free+0x62/0xc6

[ 3.458764] [<ffffffff801c57d8>] kfree+0x106/0x32c

[ 3.458786] [<ffffffff80588cf2>] detach_buf_split+0x188/0x1a8

[ 3.458816] [<ffffffff8058708c>] virtqueue_get_buf_ctx+0xb6/0x1f6

[ 3.458839] [<ffffffff805871da>] virtqueue_get_buf+0xe/0x16

[ 3.458880] [<ffffffff80613d6a>] virtblk_done+0x5c/0xe2

[ 3.458908] [<ffffffff8058766e>] vring_interrupt+0x6a/0x74

[ 3.458930] [<ffffffff800747d8>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x7c/0xe2

[ 3.458956] [<ffffffff800748f0>] handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x86

[ 3.458978] [<ffffffff800786cc>] handle_simple_irq+0x9e/0xbe

[ 3.459004] [<ffffffff80073934>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x2a

[ 3.459027] [<ffffffff804bf87c>] imsic_handle_irq+0xba/0x120

[ 3.459056] [<ffffffff80073934>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x2a

[ 3.459080] [<ffffffff804bdb76>] riscv_intc_aia_irq+0x24/0x34

[ 3.459103] [<ffffffff809d0452>] handle_riscv_irq+0x2e/0x4c

[ 3.459133] [<ffffffff809d923e>] call_on_irq_stack+0x32/0x40

So only flush the local TLB and let the lazy kfence page fault handling

deal with the faults which could happen when a core has an old protected

pte version cached in its TLB. That leads to potential inaccuracies which

can be tolerated when using kfence.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00220 · 11.8th percentile
Published
2025-01-11T12:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JAN 12:29Z
    riscv: Fix IPIs usage in kfence_protect_page()
    cvelistv5