bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy
CVE: CVE-2024-26983
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-05-01T00:00:00+00:00

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bootconfig: use memblock_free_late to free xbc memory to buddy

On the time to free xbc memory in xbc_exit(), memblock may has handed
over memory to buddy allocator. So it doesn't make sense to free memory
back to memblock. memblock_free() called by xbc_exit() even causes UAF bugs
on architectures with CONFIG_ARCH_KEEP_MEMBLOCK disabled like x86.
Following KASAN logs shows this case.

This patch fixes the xbc memory free problem by calling memblock_free()
in early xbc init error rewind path and calling memblock_free_late() in
xbc exit path to free memory to buddy allocator.

[    9.410890] ==================================================================
[    9.418962] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.426850] Read of size 8 at addr ffff88845dd30000 by task swapper/0/1

[    9.435901] CPU: 9 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G     U             6.9.0-rc3-00208-g586b5dfb51b9 #5
[    9.446403] Hardware name: Intel Corporation RPLP LP5 (CPU:RaptorLake)/RPLP LP5 (ID:13), BIOS IRPPN02.01.01.00.00.19.015.D-00000000 Dec 28 2023
[    9.460789] Call Trace:
[    9.463518]  <TASK>
[    9.465859]  dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
[    9.469949]  print_report+0xce/0x610
[    9.473944]  ? __virt_addr_valid+0xf5/0x1b0
[    9.478619]  ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.483877]  kasan_report+0xc6/0x100
[    9.487870]  ? memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.493125]  memblock_isolate_range+0x12d/0x260
[    9.498187]  memblock_phys_free+0xb4/0x160
[    9.502762]  ? __pfx_memblock_phys_free+0x10/0x10
[    9.508021]  ? mutex_unlock+0x7e/0xd0
[    9.512111]  ? __pfx_mutex_unlock+0x10/0x10
[    9.516786]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x2d4/0x430
[    9.521850]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    9.526426]  xbc_exit+0x17/0x70
[    9.529935]  kernel_init+0x38/0x1e0
[    9.533829]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0xd/0x30
[    9.538601]  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[    9.542596]  ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
[    9.547170]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[    9.551552]  </TASK>

[    9.555649] The buggy address belongs to the physical page:
[    9.561875] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x45dd30
[    9.570821] flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
[    9.576271] page_type: 0xffffffff()
[    9.580167] raw: 0200000000000000 ffffea0011774c48 ffffea0012ba1848 0000000000000000
[    9.588823] raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[    9.597476] page dumped because: kasan: bad access detected

[    9.605362] Memory state around the buggy address:
[    9.610714]  ffff88845dd2ff00: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[    9.618786]  ffff88845dd2ff80: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[    9.626857] >ffff88845dd30000: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.634930]                    ^
[    9.638534]  ffff88845dd30080: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.646605]  ffff88845dd30100: ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
[    9.654675] ==================================================================


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