CVE: CVE-2024-50303
Published: 2024-11-19
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

resource,kexec: walk_system_ram_res_rev must retain resource flags

walk_system_ram_res_rev() erroneously discards resource flags when passing
the information to the callback.

This causes systems with IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED memory to have
these resources selected during kexec to store kexec buffers if that
memory happens to be at placed above normal system ram.

This leads to undefined behavior after reboot.  If the kexec buffer is
never touched, nothing happens.  If the kexec buffer is touched, it could
lead to a crash (like below) or undefined behavior.

Tested on a system with CXL memory expanders with driver managed memory,
TPM enabled, and CONFIG_IMA_KEXEC=y.  Adding printk's showed the flags
were being discarded and as a result the check for
IORESOURCE_SYSRAM_DRIVER_MANAGED passes.

find_next_iomem_res: name(System RAM (kmem))
		     start[PII_REDACTED]0)
		     end(1034fffffff)
		     flags(83000200)

locate_mem_hole_top_down: start[PII_REDACTED]0) end(1034fffffff) flags(0)

[.] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff89834ffff000
[.] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[.] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[.] PGD c04c8bf067 P4D c04c8bf067 PUD c04c8be067 PMD 0
[.] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
[.] RIP: 0010:ima_restore_measurement_list+0x95/0x4b0
[.] RSP: 0018:ffffc900000d3a80 EFLAGS: 00010286
[.] RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: [PII_REDACTED] RCX: ffff89834ffff000
[.] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: ffff89834ffff000 RDI: ffff89834ffff018
[.] RBP: ffffc900000d3ba0 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffff888132b8a900
[.] R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: 000000003a616d69 R12: [PII_REDACTED]
[.] R13: ffffffff8404ac28 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: ffff89834ffff000
[.] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff893d44640000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[.] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[.] ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)
[.] CR2: ffff89834ffff000 CR3: 000001034d00f001 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]770ef0
[.] PKRU: 55555554
[.] Call Trace:
[.]  <TASK>
[.]  ? __die+0x78/0xc0
[.]  ? page_fault_oops+0x2a8/0x3a0
[.]  ? exc_page_fault+0x84/0x130
[.]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[.]  ? ima_restore_measurement_list+0x95/0x4b0
[.]  ? template_desc_init_fields+0x317/0x410
[.]  ? crypto_alloc_tfm_node+0x9c/0xc0
[.]  ? init_ima_lsm+0x30/0x30
[.]  ima_load_kexec_buffer+0x72/0xa0
[.]  ima_init+0x44/0xa0
[.]  __initstub__kmod_ima__373_1201_init_ima7+0x1e/0xb0
[.]  ? init_ima_lsm+0x30/0x30
[.]  do_one_initcall+0xad/0x200
[.]  ? idr_alloc_cyclic+0xaa/0x110
[.]  ? new_slab+0x12c/0x420
[.]  ? new_slab+0x12c/0x420
[.]  ? number+0x12a/0x430
[.]  ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0xa/0x80
[.]  ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20
[.]  ? parse_args+0xd4/0x380
[.]  ? parse_args+0x14b/0x380
[.]  kernel_init_freeable+0x1c1/0x2b0
[.]  ? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
[.]  kernel_init+0x16/0x1a0
[.]  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x40
[.]  ? rest_init+0xb0/0xb0
[.]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
[.]  </TASK>
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b125a0def25a082ae944c9615208bf359abdb61c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc9031b7919bd346514ea9a720f433b8daf3970d