CVE: CVE-2024-26987
Published: 2024-05-01
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/memory-failure: fix deadlock when hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap is enabled

When I did hard offline test with hugetlb pages, below deadlock occurs:

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WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.8.0-11409-gf6cef5f8c37f #1 Not tainted
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bash/46904 is trying to acquire lock:
ffffffffabe68910 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: static_key_slow_dec+0x16/0x60

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffffabf92ea8 (pcp_batch_high_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: zone_pcp_disable+0x16/0x40

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (pcp_batch_high_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       __mutex_lock+0x6c/0x770
       page_alloc_cpu_online+0x3c/0x70
       cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x397/0x5f0
       __cpuhp_invoke_callback_range+0x71/0xe0
       _cpu_up+0xeb/0x210
       cpu_up+0x91/0xe0
       cpuhp_bringup_mask+0x49/0xb0
       bringup_nonboot_cpus+0xb7/0xe0
       smp_init+0x25/0xa0
       kernel_init_freeable+0x15f/0x3e0
       kernel_init+0x15/0x1b0
       ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
       ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

-> #0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}:
       __lock_acquire+0x1298/0x1cd0
       lock_acquire+0xc0/0x2b0
       cpus_read_lock+0x2a/0xc0
       static_key_slow_dec+0x16/0x60
       __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio+0x1b9/0x200
       dissolve_free_huge_page+0x211/0x260
       __page_handle_poison+0x45/0xc0
       memory_failure+0x65e/0xc70
       hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
       kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
       vfs_write+0x387/0x550
       ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
       do_syscall_64+0xca/0x1e0
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75

other info that might help us debug this:

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(pcp_batch_high_lock);
                               lock(cpu_hotplug_lock);
                               lock(pcp_batch_high_lock);
  rlock(cpu_hotplug_lock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

5 locks held by bash/46904:
 #0: ffff98f6c3bb23f0 (sb_writers#5){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 #1: ffff98f6c328e488 (&of->mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0xf8/0x1d0
 #2: ffff98ef83b31890 (kn->active#113){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x100/0x1d0
 #3: ffffffffabf9db48 (mf_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: memory_failure+0x44/0xc70
 #4: ffffffffabf92ea8 (pcp_batch_high_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: zone_pcp_disable+0x16/0x40

stack backtrace:
CPU: 10 PID: 46904 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.8.0-11409-gf6cef5f8c37f #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xa0
 check_noncircular+0x129/0x140
 __lock_acquire+0x1298/0x1cd0
 lock_acquire+0xc0/0x2b0
 cpus_read_lock+0x2a/0xc0
 static_key_slow_dec+0x16/0x60
 __hugetlb_vmemmap_restore_folio+0x1b9/0x200
 dissolve_free_huge_page+0x211/0x260
 __page_handle_poison+0x45/0xc0
 memory_failure+0x65e/0xc70
 hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
 vfs_write+0x387/0x550
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xca/0x1e0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6d/0x75
RIP: 0033:0x7fc862314887
Code: 10 00 f7 d8 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb b7 0f 1f 00 f3 0f 1e fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74 24
RSP: 002b:00007fff19311268 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: [PII_REDACTED]
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX:[PII_REDACTED]00000c RCX: 00007fc862314887
RDX:[PII_REDACTED]00000c RSI:[PII_REDACTED]45fe10 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
RBP:[PII_REDACTED]45fe10 R08: 00007fc8623d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: [PII_REDACTED] R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12:[PII_REDACTED]00000c
R13: 00007fc86241b780 R14: 00007fc862417600 R15: 00007fc862416a00

In short, below scene breaks the 
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-667
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1983184c22dd84a4d95a71e5c6775c2638557dc7; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49955b24002dc16a0ae2e83a57a2a6c863a1845c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5ef7ba2799a3b5ed292b8f6407376e2c25ef002e