vulnerability

Alma Linux: CVE-2024-26947: Important: kernel security update (ALSA-2024-6997)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2024
Added
Nov 4, 2024
Modified
Feb 20, 2025

Description

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

ARM: 9359/1: flush: check if the folio is reserved for no-mapping addresses

Since commit a4d5613c4dc6 ("arm: extend pfn_valid to take into account
freed memory map alignment") changes the semantics of pfn_valid() to check
presence of the memory map for a PFN. A valid page for an address which
is reserved but not mapped by the kernel[1], the system crashed during
some uio test with the following memory layout:

node 0: [mem 0x00000000c0a00000-0x00000000cc8fffff]
node 0: [mem 0x00000000d0000000-0x00000000da1fffff]
the uio layout is:0xc0900000, 0x100000

the crash backtrace like:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address bff00000
[...]
CPU: 1 PID: 465 Comm: startapp.bin Tainted: G O 5.10.0 #1
Hardware name: Generic DT based system
PC is at b15_flush_kern_dcache_area+0x24/0x3c
LR is at __sync_icache_dcache+0x6c/0x98
[...]
(b15_flush_kern_dcache_area) from (__sync_icache_dcache+0x6c/0x98)
(__sync_icache_dcache) from (set_pte_at+0x28/0x54)
(set_pte_at) from (remap_pfn_range+0x1a0/0x274)
(remap_pfn_range) from (uio_mmap+0x184/0x1b8 [uio])
(uio_mmap [uio]) from (__mmap_region+0x264/0x5f4)
(__mmap_region) from (__do_mmap_mm+0x3ec/0x440)
(__do_mmap_mm) from (do_mmap+0x50/0x58)
(do_mmap) from (vm_mmap_pgoff+0xfc/0x188)
(vm_mmap_pgoff) from (ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xac/0xc4)
(ksys_mmap_pgoff) from (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x5c)
Code: e0801001 e2423001 e1c00003 f57ff04f (ee070f3e)
---[ end trace 09cf0734c3805d52 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

So check if PG_reserved was set to solve this issue.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/

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