vulnerability
Ubuntu: (CVE-2022-49081): linux vulnerability
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C) | 2025-02-26 | 2025-03-19 | 2025-03-20 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
highmem: fix checks in __kmap_local_sched_{in,out}
When CONFIG_DEBUG_KMAP_LOCAL is enabled __kmap_local_sched_{in,out} check
that even slots in the tsk->kmap_ctrl.pteval are unmapped. The slots are
initialized with 0 value, but the check is done with pte_none. 0 pte
however does not necessarily mean that pte_none will return true. e.g.
on xtensa it returns false, resulting in the following runtime warnings:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/highmem.c:627 __kmap_local_sched_out+0x51/0x108
CPU: 0 PID: 101 Comm: touch Not tainted 5.17.0-rc7-00010-gd3a1cdde80d2-dirty #13
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xc/0x40
__warn+0x8f/0x174
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0xac
__kmap_local_sched_out+0x51/0x108
__schedule+0x71a/0x9c4
preempt_schedule_irq+0xa0/0xe0
common_exception_return+0x5c/0x93
do_wp_page+0x30e/0x330
handle_mm_fault+0xa70/0xc3c
do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x3c4
common_exception+0x7f/0x7f
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 101 at mm/highmem.c:664 __kmap_local_sched_in+0x50/0xe0
CPU: 0 PID: 101 Comm: touch Tainted: G W 5.17.0-rc7-00010-gd3a1cdde80d2-dirty #13
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0xc/0x40
__warn+0x8f/0x174
warn_slowpath_fmt+0x48/0xac
__kmap_local_sched_in+0x50/0xe0
finish_task_switch$isra$0+0x1ce/0x2f8
__schedule+0x86e/0x9c4
preempt_schedule_irq+0xa0/0xe0
common_exception_return+0x5c/0x93
do_wp_page+0x30e/0x330
handle_mm_fault+0xa70/0xc3c
do_page_fault+0x1d8/0x3c4
common_exception+0x7f/0x7f
Fix it by replacing !pte_none(pteval) with pte_val(pteval) != 0.
Solution(s)
References
- CVE-2022-49081
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2022-49081
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/linus/66f133ceab7456c789f70a242991ed1b27ba1c3d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66f133ceab7456c789f70a242991ed1b27ba1c3d
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dd5b3b97716a611fcf67d92fd2370fcb8d50372
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/85550b0f5fa5dd3c30469ea702c44444ef242c83
- URL-https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c21d040de6225414547d9bd31cd200f290991c85
- URL-https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49081

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