CVE-2024-36028: kernel: mm/hugetlb: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1) when dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio()
Component: kernel
Severity: Low
CWE: CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'))
CVSS v3: 4.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Public date: 2024-05-30T00:00:00+00:00

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

mm/hugetlb: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1) when dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio()

When I did memory failure tests recently, below warning occurs:

DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1)
WARNING: CPU: 8 PID: 1011 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:232 __lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
CPU: 8 PID: 1011 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410-00012-gdb69f219f4be #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
RSP: 0018:ffffa7a1c7fe3bd0 EFLAGS: 00000082
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: eb851eb853975fcf RCX: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c8
RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c0
RBP: ffffa1c6865d3280 R08: ffffffffb0f570a8 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000286 R11: ffffffffb0f2ad50 R12: ffffa1c6865d3d10
R13: ffffa1c6865d3c70 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
FS:  00007ff9f32aa740(0000) GS:ffffa1ce5fc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ff9f3134ba0 CR3: 00000008484e4000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 lock_acquire+0xbe/0x2d0
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60
 hugepage_subpool_put_pages.part.0+0xe/0xc0
 free_huge_folio+0x253/0x3f0
 dissolve_free_huge_page+0x147/0x210
 __page_handle_poison+0x9/0x70
 memory_failure+0x4e6/0x8c0
 hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
 vfs_write+0x380/0x540
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xbc/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff9f3114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffecbacb458 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007ff9f3114887
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000564494164e10 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564494164e10 R08: 00007ff9f31d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c
R13: 00007ff9f321b780 R14: 00007ff9f3217600 R15: 00007ff9f3216a00
 </TASK>
Kernel panic - not syncing: kernel: panic_on_warn set ...
CPU: 8 PID: 1011 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.9.0-rc3-next-20240410-00012-gdb69f219f4be #3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.14.0-0-g155821a1990b-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 panic+0x326/0x350
 check_panic_on_warn+0x4f/0x50
 __warn+0x98/0x190
 report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0
 handle_bug+0x3d/0x70
 exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70
 asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
RIP: 0010:__lock_acquire+0xccb/0x1ca0
RSP: 0018:ffffa7a1c7fe3bd0 EFLAGS: 00000082
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: eb851eb853975fcf RCX: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c8
RDX: 00000000ffffffd8 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffffa1ce5fc1c9c0
RBP: ffffa1c6865d3280 R08: ffffffffb0f570a8 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000286 R11: ffffffffb0f2ad50 R12: ffffa1c6865d3d10
R13: ffffa1c6865d3c70 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000004
 lock_acquire+0xbe/0x2d0
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60
 hugepage_subpool_put_pages.part.0+0xe/0xc0
 free_huge_folio+0x253/0x3f0
 dissolve_free_huge_page+0x147/0x210
 __page_handle_poison+0x9/0x70
 memory_failure+0x4e6/0x8c0
 hard_offline_page_store+0x55/0xa0
 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x12c/0x1d0
 vfs_write+0x380/0x540
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xbc/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff9f3114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffecbacb458 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000c RCX: 00007ff9f3114887
RDX: 000000000000000c RSI: 0000564494164e10 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564494164e10 R08: 00007ff9f31d1460 R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 000000000000000c
R13: 00007ff9f321b780 R14: 00007ff9f3217600 R15: 00007ff9f3216a00
 </TASK>

After git bisecting and digging into the code, I believe the root cause is
that _deferred_list field of folio is unioned with _hugetlb_subpool field.
In __update_and_free_hugetlb_folio(), folio->_deferred_
---truncated---


Affected upstream versions: 6.1.47 < 6.1.91, 6.4.11 < 6.5, 6.5
Fixed upstream versions: 0, 6.1.91, 6.5, 6.6.31, 6.8.9, 6.9
Upstream repository: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Upstream fix commit: 2effe407f7563add41750fd7e03da4ea44b98099