CVE: CVE-2024-53687
Published: 2025-01-11
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

riscv: Fix IPIs usage in kfence_protect_page()

flush_tlb_kernel_range() may use IPIs to flush the TLBs of all the
cores, which triggers the following warning when the irqs are disabled:

[    3.455330] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at kernel/smp.c:815 smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520
[    3.456647] Modules linked in:
[    3.457218] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.12.0-rc7-00010-g91d3de7240b8 #1
[    3.457416] Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS
[    3.457633] epc : smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520
[    3.457736]  ra : on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x1e/0x30
[    3.457786] epc : ffffffff800b669a ra : ffffffff800b67c2 sp : ff[PII_REDACTED]bb50
[    3.457824]  gp : ffffffff815212b8 tp : ff[PII_REDACTED]f080 t0 :[PII_REDACTED]00003f
[    3.457859]  t1 : ffffffff815221e0 t2 :[PII_REDACTED]00000f s0 : ff[PII_REDACTED]bc10
[    3.457920]  s1 : [PII_REDACTED] a0 : ffffffff815221e0 a1 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.457953]  a2 : [PII_REDACTED] a3 : [PII_REDACTED] a4 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.458006]  a5 : [PII_REDACTED] a6 : ffffffffffffffff a7 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.458042]  s2 : ffffffff815223be s3 : 00fffffffffff000 s4 : ff600001ffe38fc0
[    3.458076]  s5 : ff600001ff950d00 s6 : [PII_REDACTED] s7 : [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.458109]  s8 : [PII_REDACTED] s9 : ff[PII_REDACTED]1ef0 s10: [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.458141]  s11: ffffffff81524812 t3 : [PII_REDACTED] t4 : ff[PII_REDACTED]2bc0
[    3.458172]  t5 : [PII_REDACTED] t6 : ff[PII_REDACTED]36d0
[    3.458203] status: [PII_REDACTED] badaddr: ffffffff800b669a cause: [PII_REDACTED]
[    3.458373] [<ffffffff800b669a>] smp_call_function_many_cond+0x452/0x520
[    3.458593] [<ffffffff800b67c2>] on_each_cpu_cond_mask+0x1e/0x30
[    3.458625] [<ffffffff8000e4ca>] __flush_tlb_range+0x118/0x1ca
[    3.458656] [<ffffffff8000e6b2>] flush_tlb_kernel_range+0x1e/0x26
[    3.458683] [<ffffffff801ea56a>] kfence_protect+0xc0/0xce
[    3.458717] [<ffffffff801e9456>] kfence_guarded_free+0xc6/0x1c0
[    3.458742] [<ffffffff801e9d6c>] __kfence_free+0x62/0xc6
[    3.458764] [<ffffffff801c57d8>] kfree+0x106/0x32c
[    3.458786] [<ffffffff80588cf2>] detach_buf_split+0x188/0x1a8
[    3.458816] [<ffffffff8058708c>] virtqueue_get_buf_ctx+0xb6/0x1f6
[    3.458839] [<ffffffff805871da>] virtqueue_get_buf+0xe/0x16
[    3.458880] [<ffffffff80613d6a>] virtblk_done+0x5c/0xe2
[    3.458908] [<ffffffff8058766e>] vring_interrupt+0x6a/0x74
[    3.458930] [<ffffffff800747d8>] __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x7c/0xe2
[    3.458956] [<ffffffff800748f0>] handle_irq_event+0x3c/0x86
[    3.458978] [<ffffffff800786cc>] handle_simple_irq+0x9e/0xbe
[    3.459004] [<ffffffff80073934>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x2a
[    3.459027] [<ffffffff804bf87c>] imsic_handle_irq+0xba/0x120
[    3.459056] [<ffffffff80073934>] generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x2a
[    3.459080] [<ffffffff804bdb76>] riscv_intc_aia_irq+0x24/0x34
[    3.459103] [<ffffffff809d0452>] handle_riscv_irq+0x2e/0x4c
[    3.459133] [<ffffffff809d923e>] call_on_irq_stack+0x32/0x40

So only flush the local TLB and let the lazy kfence page fault handling
deal with the faults which could happen when a core has an old protected
pte version cached in its TLB. That leads to potential inaccuracies which
can be tolerated when using kfence.
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3abfc4130c4222099c69d023fed97f1180a8ad7b; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6f796a6a396d6f963f2cc8f5edd7dfba2cca097f; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b3431a8bb336cece8adc452437befa7d4534b2fd