High · published January 21, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: mm: Fix the out of bound issue of vmemmap address
In sparse vmemmap model, the virtual address of vmemmap is calculated as:
((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT)).
And the struct page's va can be calculated with an offset:
(vmemmap + (pfn)).
However, when initializing struct pages, kernel actually starts from the
first page from the same section that phys_ram_base belongs to. If the
first page's physical address is not (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT), then
we get an va below VMEMMAP_START when calculating va for it's struct page.
For example, if phys_ram_base starts from 0x82000000 with pfn 0x82000, the
first page in the same section is actually pfn 0x80000. During
init_unavailable_range(), we will initialize struct page for pfn 0x80000
with virtual address ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - 0x2000), which is
below VMEMMAP_START as well as PCI_IO_END.
This commit fixes this bug by introducing a new variable
'vmemmap_start_pfn' which is aligned with memory section size and using
it to calculate vmemmap address instead of phys_ram_base.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.10.212, < 5.11 | 5.11 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 5.15.151, < 5.16 | 5.16 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.1.81, < 6.1.140 | 6.1.140 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.6.21, < 6.6.72 | 6.6.72 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.7.9, < 6.8 | 6.8 |
| linux/linux_kernel | ≥ 6.8.1, < 6.12.10 | 6.12.10 |
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