CVE: CVE-2022-49567
Published: 2025-02-26
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mempolicy: fix uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy()

mpol_set_nodemask()(mm/mempolicy.c) does not set up nodemask when
pol->mode is MPOL_LOCAL.  Check pol->mode before access
pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed in mpol_rebind_policy()(mm/mempolicy.c).

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:352 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_task+0x2ac/0x2c0 mm/mempolicy.c:368
 mpol_rebind_policy mm/mempolicy.c:352 [inline]
 mpol_rebind_task+0x2ac/0x2c0 mm/mempolicy.c:368
 cpuset_change_task_nodemask kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:1711 [inline]
 cpuset_attach+0x787/0x15e0 kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c:2278
 cgroup_migrate_execute+0x1023/0x1d20 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2515
 cgroup_migrate kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2771 [inline]
 cgroup_attach_task+0x540/0x8b0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:2804
 __cgroup1_procs_write+0x5cc/0x7a0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c:520
 cgroup1_tasks_write+0x94/0xb0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c:539
 cgroup_file_write+0x4c2/0x9e0 kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:3852
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x66a/0x9f0 fs/kernfs/file.c:296
 call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2162 [inline]
 new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:503 [inline]
 vfs_write+0x1318/0x2030 fs/read_write.c:590
 ksys_write+0x28b/0x510 fs/read_write.c:643
 __do_sys_write fs/read_write.c:655 [inline]
 __se_sys_write fs/read_write.c:652 [inline]
 __x64_sys_write+0xdb/0x120 fs/read_write.c:652
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Uninit was created at:
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:524 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3251 [inline]
 slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3259 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc+0x902/0x11c0 mm/slub.c:3264
 mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:293 [inline]
 do_set_mempolicy+0x421/0xb70 mm/mempolicy.c:853
 kernel_set_mempolicy mm/mempolicy.c:1504 [inline]
 __do_sys_set_mempolicy mm/mempolicy.c:1510 [inline]
 __se_sys_set_mempolicy+0x44c/0xb60 mm/mempolicy.c:1507
 __x64_sys_set_mempolicy+0xd8/0x110 mm/mempolicy.c:1507
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_task (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=d6eb90f952c2a5de9ea718a1b873c55cb13b59dc

This patch seems to fix below bug too.
KMSAN: uninit-value in mpol_rebind_mm (2)
https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f2fecd0d7013f54ec4162f60743a2b28df40926b

The uninit-value is pol->w.cpuset_mems_allowed in mpol_rebind_policy().
When syzkaller reproducer runs to the beginning of mpol_new(),

	    mpol_new() mm/mempolicy.c
	  do_mbind() mm/mempolicy.c
	kernel_mbind() mm/mempolicy.c

`mode` is 1(MPOL_PREFERRED), nodes_empty(*nodes) is `true` and `flags`
is 0. Then

	mode = MPOL_LOCAL;
	...
	policy->mode = mode;
	policy->flags = flags;

will be executed. So in mpol_set_nodemask(),

	    mpol_set_nodemask() mm/mempolicy.c
	  do_mbind()
	kernel_mbind()

pol->mode is 4 (MPOL_LOCAL), that `nodemask` in `pol` is not initialized,
which will be accessed in mpol_rebind_policy().
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-908, CWE-908
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/018160ad314d75b1409129b2247b614a9f35894c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/777e563f10e91e91130fe06bee85220d508e7b9b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c5429a04ccd8dbcc3c753dab2f4126774ec28d4