CVE-2024-56544CWE-476

CVE-2024-56544

Medium · published December 27, 2024

CVSS v3.1
5.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc

When PAGE_SIZE 4096, MAX_PAGE_ORDER 10, 64bit machine,

page_alloc only support 4MB.

If above this, trigger this warn and return NULL.

udmabuf can change size limit, if change it to 3072(3GB), and then alloc

3GB udmabuf, will fail create.

[ 4080.876581] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 4080.876843] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2015 at mm/page_alloc.c:4556 __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350

[ 4080.878839] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350

[ 4080.879470] Call Trace:

[ 4080.879473] <TASK>

[ 4080.879473] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350

[ 4080.879475] ? __warn.cold+0x8e/0xe8

[ 4080.880647] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350

[ 4080.880909] ? report_bug+0xff/0x140

[ 4080.881175] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80

[ 4080.881556] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70

[ 4080.881559] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20

[ 4080.882077] ? udmabuf_create+0x131/0x400

Because MAX_PAGE_ORDER, kmalloc can max alloc 4096 * (1 << 10), 4MB

memory, each array entry is pointer(8byte), so can save 524288 pages(2GB).

Further more, costly order(order 3) may not be guaranteed that it can be

applied for, due to fragmentation.

This patch change udmabuf array use kvmalloc_array, this can fallback

alloc into vmalloc, which can guarantee allocation for any size and does

not affect the performance of kmalloc allocations.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00218 · 11.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2024-12-27T19:15Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 4.20, < 6.11.116.11.11
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.12, < 6.12.26.12.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 DEC 14:11Z
    udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc
    cvelistv5