CVE: CVE-2024-46790
Published: 2024-09-18
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

codetag: debug: mark codetags for poisoned page as empty

When PG_hwpoison pages are freed they are treated differently in
free_pages_prepare() and instead of being released they are isolated.

Page allocation tag counters are decremented at this point since the page
is considered not in use.  Later on when such pages are released by
unpoison_memory(), the allocation tag counters will be decremented again
and the following warning gets reported:

[  113.930443][ T3282] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  113.931105][ T3282] alloc_tag was not set
[  113.931576][ T3282] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 3282 at ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:130 pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[  113.932866][ T3282] Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject fuse ip6t_rpfilter ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ipt_REJECT nf_reject_ipv4 xt_conntrack ebtable_nat ebtable_broute ip6table_nat ip6table_man4
[  113.941638][ T3282] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 3282 Comm: madvise11 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G        W          6.11.0-rc4-dirty #18
[  113.943003][ T3282] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[  113.943453][ T3282] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[  113.944378][ T3282] pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[  113.945319][ T3282] pc : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[  113.946016][ T3282] lr : pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[  113.946706][ T3282] sp : ffff800087093a10
[  113.947197][ T3282] x29: ffff800087093a10 x28: ffff0000d7a9d400 x27: ffff80008249f0a0
[  113.948165][ T3282] x26: [PII_REDACTED] x25: ffff80008249f2b0 x24: [PII_REDACTED]
[  113.949134][ T3282] x23: [PII_REDACTED] x22: [PII_REDACTED] x21: [PII_REDACTED]
[  113.950597][ T3282] x20: ffff0000c08fcad8 x19: ffff80008251e000 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[  113.952207][ T3282] x17: [PII_REDACTED] x16: [PII_REDACTED] x15: ffff[PII_REDACTED]10
[  113.953161][ T3282] x14: [PII_REDACTED] x13: 205d[PII_REDACTED]20 x12: 5b5d[PII_REDACTED]39
[  113.954120][ T3282] x11: ffff[PII_REDACTED]00 x10:[PII_REDACTED]00005d x9 : 00000000ffffffd0
[  113.955078][ T3282] x8 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x7 : ffff80008236ba90 x6 : c0000000ffff7fff
[  113.956036][ T3282] x5 : ffff000b34bf4dc8 x4 : ffff8000820aba90 x3 : [PII_REDACTED]
[  113.956994][ T3282] x2 : ffff800ab320f000 x1 : 841d1e35ac932e00 x0 : [PII_REDACTED]
[  113.957962][ T3282] Call trace:
[  113.958350][ T3282]  pgalloc_tag_sub.part.66+0x154/0x164
[  113.959000][ T3282]  pgalloc_tag_sub+0x14/0x1c
[  113.959539][ T3282]  free_unref_page+0xf4/0x4b8
[  113.960096][ T3282]  __folio_put+0xd4/0x120
[  113.960614][ T3282]  folio_put+0x24/0x50
[  113.961103][ T3282]  unpoison_memory+0x4f0/0x5b0
[  113.961678][ T3282]  hwpoison_unpoison+0x30/0x48 [hwpoison_inject]
[  113.962436][ T3282]  simple_attr_write_xsigned.isra.34+0xec/0x1cc
[  113.963183][ T3282]  simple_attr_write+0x38/0x48
[  113.963750][ T3282]  debugfs_attr_write+0x54/0x80
[  113.964330][ T3282]  full_proxy_write+0x68/0x98
[  113.964880][ T3282]  vfs_write+0xdc/0x4d0
[  113.965372][ T3282]  ksys_write+0x78/0x100
[  113.965875][ T3282]  __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x30
[  113.966440][ T3282]  invoke_syscall+0x7c/0x104
[  113.966984][ T3282]  el0_svc_common.constprop.1+0x88/0x104
[  113.967652][ T3282]  do_el0_svc+0x2c/0x38
[  113.968893][ T3282]  el0_svc+0x3c/0x1b8
[  113.969379][ T3282]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x98/0xbc
[  113.969980][ T3282]  el0t_64_sync+0x19c/0x1a0
[  113.970511][ T3282] ---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---

To fix this, clear the page tag reference after the page got isolated
and accounted for.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16ad36c8e66a26626e7d0224100b433483a2acef; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5e9784e997620af7c[PII_REDACTED]f5d6964b41942