CVE: CVE-2024-53105
Published: 2024-12-02
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page being freed
using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at free_pages_prepare()
stage:

  BUG: Bad page state in process syz.5.504  pfn:61f45
  page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:[PII_REDACTED] index:0x0 pfn:0x61f45
  flags: 0xfff[PII_REDACTED]4(referenced|workingset|mlocked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
  raw: 00fff[PII_REDACTED]4 [PII_REDACTED] dead[PII_REDACTED]22 [PII_REDACTED]
  raw: [PII_REDACTED] [PII_REDACTED] 00000000ffffffff [PII_REDACTED]
  page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
  page_owner tracks the page as allocated
  page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8443, tgid 8442 (syz.5.504), ts[PII_REDACTED]43, free_ts[PII_REDACTED]94
   set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
   post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537
   prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline]
   get_page_from_freelist+0x303f/0x3190 mm/page_alloc.c:3457
   __alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4733
   alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265
   kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99
   kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline]
   kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5488 [inline]
   kvm_dev_ioctl+0x12dc/0x2240 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5530
   __do_compat_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:1007 [inline]
   __se_compat_sys_ioctl+0x510/0xc90 fs/ioctl.c:950
   do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:165 [inline]
   __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb4/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:386
   do_fast_syscall_32+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:411
   entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x84/0x8e
  page last free pid 8399 tgid 8399 stack trace:
   reset_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:25 [inline]
   free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1108 [inline]
   free_unref_folios+0xf12/0x18d0 mm/page_alloc.c:2686
   folios_put_refs+0x76c/0x860 mm/swap.c:1007
   free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x5c8/0x690 mm/swap_state.c:335
   __tlb_batch_free_encoded_pages mm/mmu_gather.c:136 [inline]
   tlb_batch_pages_flush mm/mmu_gather.c:149 [inline]
   tlb_flush_mmu_free mm/mmu_gather.c:366 [inline]
   tlb_flush_mmu+0x3a3/0x680 mm/mmu_gather.c:373
   tlb_finish_mmu+0xd4/0x200 mm/mmu_gather.c:465
   exit_mmap+0x496/0xc40 mm/mmap.c:1926
   __mmput+0x115/0x390 kernel/fork.c:1348
   exit_mm+0x220/0x310 kernel/exit.c:571
   do_exit+0x9b2/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:926
   do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088
   __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [inline]
   __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1097 [inline]
   __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1097
   x64_sys_call+0x2634/0x2640 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 8442 Comm: syz.5.504 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc6-syzkaller #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
   bad_page+0x176/0x1d0 mm/page_alloc.c:501
   free_page_is_bad mm/page_alloc.c:918 [inline]
   free_pages_prepare mm/page_alloc.c:1100 [inline]
   free_unref_page+0xed0/0xf20 mm/page_alloc.c:2638
   kvm_destroy_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1327 [inline]
   kvm_put_kvm+0xc75/0x1350 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1386
   kvm_vcpu_release+0x54/0x60 virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:4143
   __fput+0x23f/0x880 fs/file_table.c:431
   task_work_run+0x24f/0x310 kernel/task_work.c:239
   exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:43 [inline]
   do_exit+0xa2f/0x28e0 kernel/exit.c:939
   do_group_exit+0x207/0x2c0 kernel/exit.c:1088
   __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1099 [in
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-401, CWE-401
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2521664c1fc0fcea825ef0b4d8e2dfb622bc0f9a; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66edc3a5894c74f8887c8af23b97593a0dd0df4d; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7873d11911cd1d21e25c354eb130d8c3b5cb3ca5