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Debian: CVE-2022-49851: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
May 1, 2025
Added
May 5, 2025
Modified
May 6, 2025

Description

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

riscv: fix reserved memory setup

Currently, RISC-V sets up reserved memory using the "early" copy of the
device tree. As a result, when trying to get a reserved memory region
using of_reserved_mem_lookup(), the pointer to reserved memory regions
is using the early, pre-virtual-memory address which causes a kernel
panic when trying to use the buffer's name:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000401c31ac
Oops [#1]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00001-g0d9d6953d834 #1
Hardware name: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit (DT)
epc : string+0x4a/0xea
ra : vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
epc : ffffffff80335ea0 ra : ffffffff80338936 sp : ffffffff81203be0
gp : ffffffff812e0a98 tp : ffffffff8120de40 t0 : 0000000000000000
t1 : ffffffff81203e28 t2 : 7265736572203a46 s0 : ffffffff81203c20
s1 : ffffffff81203e28 a0 : ffffffff81203d22 a1 : 0000000000000000
a2 : ffffffff81203d08 a3 : 0000000081203d21 a4 : ffffffffffffffff
a5 : 00000000401c31ac a6 : ffff0a00ffffff04 a7 : ffffffffffffffff
s2 : ffffffff81203d08 s3 : ffffffff81203d00 s4 : 0000000000000008
s5 : ffffffff000000ff s6 : 0000000000ffffff s7 : 00000000ffffff00
s8 : ffffffff80d9821a s9 : ffffffff81203d22 s10: 0000000000000002
s11: ffffffff80d9821c t3 : ffffffff812f3617 t4 : ffffffff812f3617
t5 : ffffffff812f3618 t6 : ffffffff81203d08
status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000401c31ac cause: 000000000000000d
[] vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
[] vprintk_store+0xf6/0x344
[] vprintk_emit+0x56/0x192
[] vprintk_default+0x16/0x1e
[] vprintk+0x72/0x80
[] _printk+0x36/0x50
[] print_reserved_mem+0x1c/0x24
[] paging_init+0x528/0x5bc
[] setup_arch+0xd0/0x592
[] start_kernel+0x82/0x73c

early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() takes no arguments as it operates on
initial_boot_params, which is populated by early_init_dt_verify(). On
RISC-V, early_init_dt_verify() is called twice. Once, directly, in
setup_arch() if CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB is not enabled and once indirectly,
very early in the boot process, by parse_dtb() when it calls
early_init_dt_scan_nodes().

This first call uses dtb_early_va to set initial_boot_params, which is
not usable later in the boot process when
early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() is called. On arm64 for example, the
corresponding call to early_init_dt_scan_nodes() uses fixmap addresses
and doesn't suffer the same fate.

Move early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() further along the boot sequence,
after the direct call to early_init_dt_verify() in setup_arch() so that
the names use the correct virtual memory addresses. The above supposed
that CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB was not set, but should work equally in the case
where it is - unflatted_and_copy_device_tree() also updates
initial_boot_params.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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