CVE: CVE-2021-47462
Published: 2024-05-22
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()

syzbot reported access to unitialized memory in mbind() [1]

Issue came with commit bda420b98505 ("numa balancing: migrate on fault
among multiple bound nodes")

This commit added a new bit in MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, but only checked valid
combination (MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING can only be used with MPOL_BIND) in
do_set_mempolicy()

This patch moves the check in sanitize_mpol_flags() so that it is also
used by mbind()

  [1]
  BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
   __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
   mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]
   vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190
   mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811
   do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333
   kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
   __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
   __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   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_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3221 [inline]
   slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3230 [inline]
   kmem_cache_alloc+0x751/0xff0 mm/slub.c:3235
   mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:293 [inline]
   do_mbind+0x912/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1289
   kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
   __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
   __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   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
  =====================================================
  Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_kmsan set ...
  CPU: 0 PID: 15049 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G    B             5.15.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
   dump_stack_lvl+0x1ff/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106
   dump_stack+0x25/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:113
   panic+0x44f/0xdeb kernel/panic.c:232
   kmsan_report+0x2ee/0x300 mm/kmsan/report.c:186
   __msan_warning+0xd7/0x150 mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c:208
   __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
   mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]
   vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190
   mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811
   do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333
   kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
   __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
   __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
   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
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-908
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee4e9ae98f1f262d6fae0d266cfdf3ba2c321d9; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c