CVE: CVE-2024-35877
Published: 2024-05-19
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm/pat: fix VM_PAT handling in COW mappings

PAT handling won't do the right thing in COW mappings: the first PTE (or,
in fact, all PTEs) can be replaced during write faults to point at anon
folios.  Reliably recovering the correct PFN and cachemode using
follow_phys() from PTEs will not work in COW mappings.

Using follow_phys(), we might just get the address+protection of the anon
folio (which is very wrong), or fail on swap/nonswap entries, failing
follow_phys() and triggering a WARN_ON_ONCE() in untrack_pfn() and
track_pfn_copy(), not properly calling free_pfn_range().

In free_pfn_range(), we either wouldn't call memtype_free() or would call
it with the wrong range, possibly leaking memory.

To fix that, let's update follow_phys() to refuse returning anon folios,
and fallback to using the stored PFN inside vma->vm_pgoff for COW mappings
if we run into that.

We will now properly handle untrack_pfn() with COW mappings, where we
don't need the cachemode.  We'll have to fail fork()->track_pfn_copy() if
the first page was replaced by an anon folio, though: we'd have to store
the cachemode in the VMA to make this work, likely growing the VMA size.

For now, lets keep it simple and let track_pfn_copy() just fail in that
case: it would have failed in the past with swap/nonswap entries already,
and it would have done the wrong thing with anon folios.

Simple reproducer to trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in untrack_pfn():

<--- C reproducer --->
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <sys/mman.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
 #include <liburing.h>

 int main(void)
 {
         struct io_uring_params p = {};
         int ring_fd;
         size_t size;
         char *map;

         ring_fd = io_uring_setup(1, &p);
         if (ring_fd < 0) {
                 perror("io_uring_setup");
                 return 1;
         }
         size = p.sq_off.array + p.sq_entries * sizeof(unsigned);

         /* Map the submission queue ring MAP_PRIVATE */
         map = mmap(0, size, PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE,
                    ring_fd, IORING_OFF_SQ_RING);
         if (map == MAP_FAILED) {
                 perror("mmap");
                 return 1;
         }

         /* We have at least one page. Let's COW it. */
         *map = 0;
         pause();
         return 0;
 }
<--- C reproducer --->

On a system with 16 GiB RAM and swap configured:
 # ./iouring &
 # memhog 16G
 # killall iouring
[  301.552930] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  301.553285] WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 1402 at arch/x86/mm/pat/memtype.c:1060 untrack_pfn+0xf4/0x100
[  301.553989] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib nft_reject_g
[  301.558232] CPU: 7 PID: 1402 Comm: iouring Not tainted 6.7.5-100.fc38.x86_64 #1
[  301.558772] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebu4
[  301.559569] RIP: 0010:untrack_pfn+0xf4/0x100
[  301.559893] Code: 75 c4 eb cf 48 8b 43 10 8b a8 e8 00 00 00 3b 6b 28 74 b8 48 8b 7b 30 e8 ea 1a f7 000
[  301.561189] RSP: 0018:ffffba2c0377fab8 EFLAGS: 00010282
[  301.561590] RAX: 00000000ffffffea RBX: ffff9208c8ce9cc0 RCX:[PII_REDACTED]55e047
[  301.562105] RDX: 07fffffff0eb1e0a RSI: [PII_REDACTED] RDI: ffff9208c391d200
[  301.562628] RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: ffffba2c0377fab8 R09: [PII_REDACTED]
[  301.563145] R10: ffff9208d2292d50 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: 00007fea890e0000
[  301.563669] R13: [PII_REDACTED] R14: ffffba2c0377fc08 R15: [PII_REDACTED]
[  301.564186] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff920c2fbc0000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[  301.564773] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[  301.565197] CR2: 00007fea88ee8a20 CR3:[PII_REDACTED]3a8000 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]750ef0
[  301.565725] PKRU: 55555554
[  301.565944] Call Trace:
[  301.566148]  <TASK>
[  301.566325]  ? untrack_pfn+0xf4/0x100
[  301.566618]  ? __warn+0x81/0x130
[  301.566876]  ? untrack_pfn+0xf4/0x100
[  3
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-401
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04c35ab3bdae7fefbd7c7a7355f29fa03a035221; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09e6bb53217bf388a0d2fd7fb21e74ab9dffc173; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1341e4b32e1fb1b0acd002ccd56f07bd32f2abc6