mm/slub: add check for s-&gt;flags in the alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook
CVE: CVE-2024-46789
Component: kernel
CWE: CWE-401
Severity: Low
CVSS v3: 5.6/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Release date: 2024-09-18T00:00:00+00:00

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

mm/slub: add check for s->flags in the alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook

When enable CONFIG_MEMCG & CONFIG_KFENCE & CONFIG_KMEMLEAK, the following
warning always occurs,This is because the following call stack occurred:
mem_pool_alloc
    kmem_cache_alloc_noprof
        slab_alloc_node
            kfence_alloc

Once the kfence allocation is successful,slab->obj_exts will not be empty,
because it has already been assigned a value in kfence_init_pool.

Since in the prepare_slab_obj_exts_hook function,we perform a check for
s->flags & (SLAB_NO_OBJ_EXT | SLAB_NOLEAKTRACE),the alloc_tag_add function
will not be called as a result.Therefore,ref->ct remains NULL.

However,when we call mem_pool_free,since obj_ext is not empty, it
eventually leads to the alloc_tag_sub scenario being invoked.  This is
where the warning occurs.

So we should add corresponding checks in the alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook.
For __GFP_NO_OBJ_EXT case,I didn't see the specific case where it's using
kfence,so I won't add the corresponding check in
alloc_tagging_slab_free_hook for now.

[    3.734349] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    3.734807] alloc_tag was not set
[    3.735129] WARNING: CPU: 4 PID: 40 at ./include/linux/alloc_tag.h:130 kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[    3.735866] Modules linked in: autofs4
[    3.736211] CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 40 Comm: ksoftirqd/4 Tainted: G        W          6.11.0-rc3-dirty #1
[    3.736969] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[    3.737258] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022
[    3.737875] pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
[    3.738501] pc : kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[    3.738951] lr : kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[    3.739361] sp : ffff80008357bb60
[    3.739693] x29: ffff80008357bb70 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000000
[    3.740338] x26: ffff80008207f000 x25: ffff000b2eb2fd60 x24: ffff0000c0005700
[    3.740982] x23: ffff8000804229e4 x22: ffff800082080000 x21: ffff800081756000
[    3.741630] x20: fffffd7ff8253360 x19: 00000000000000a8 x18: ffffffffffffffff
[    3.742274] x17: ffff800ab327f000 x16: ffff800083398000 x15: ffff800081756df0
[    3.742919] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 205d344320202020 x12: 5b5d373038343337
[    3.743560] x11: ffff80008357b650 x10: 000000000000005d x9 : 00000000ffffffd0
[    3.744231] x8 : 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f x7 : ffff80008237bad0 x6 : c0000000ffff7fff
[    3.744907] x5 : ffff80008237ba78 x4 : ffff8000820bbad0 x3 : 0000000000000001
[    3.745580] x2 : 68d66547c09f7800 x1 : 68d66547c09f7800 x0 : 0000000000000000
[    3.746255] Call trace:
[    3.746530]  kmem_cache_free+0x444/0x574
[    3.746931]  mem_pool_free+0x44/0xf4
[    3.747306]  free_object_rcu+0xc8/0xdc
[    3.747693]  rcu_do_batch+0x234/0x8a4
[    3.748075]  rcu_core+0x230/0x3e4
[    3.748424]  rcu_core_si+0x14/0x1c
[    3.748780]  handle_softirqs+0x134/0x378
[    3.749189]  run_ksoftirqd+0x70/0x9c
[    3.749560]  smpboot_thread_fn+0x148/0x22c
[    3.749978]  kthread+0x10c/0x118
[    3.750323]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
[    3.750696] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---


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