Linux Kernel up to 5.4.177/5.10.98/5.15.21/5.16.7 kmemleak devm_request_free_mem_region/devm_memremap_pages memory leak

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Linux Kernel up to 5.4.177/5.10.98/5.15.21/5.16.7. This affects the function devm_request_free_mem_region/devm_memremap_pages of the component kmemleak. Such manipulation leads to memory leak. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2022-48731. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Linux Kernel up to 5.4.177/5.10.98/5.15.21/5.16.7. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function devm_request_free_mem_region/devm_memremap_pages of the component kmemleak. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes When using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to add ZONE_DEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were huge(e.g., 0x400000000), the node_end_pfn() will be also huge (see move_pfn_range_to_zone()). Thus it creates a huge hole between node_start_pfn() and node_end_pfn(). We found on some AMD APUs, amdkfd requested such a free mem region and created a huge hole. In such a case, following code snippet was just doing busy test_bit() looping on the huge hole. for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) { struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn); if (!page) continue; ... } So we got a soft lockup: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! [bash:1221] CPU: 6 PID: 1221 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.15.0-custom #1 RIP: 0010:pfn_to_online_page+0x5/0xd0 Call Trace: ? kmemleak_scan+0x16a/0x440 kmemleak_write+0x306/0x3a0 ? common_file_perm+0x72/0x170 full_proxy_write+0x5c/0x90 vfs_write+0xb9/0x260 ksys_write+0x67/0xe0 __x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae I did some tests with the patch. (1) amdgpu module unloaded before the patch: real 0m0.976s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.968s after the patch: real 0m0.981s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.973s (2) amdgpu module loaded before the patch: real 0m35.365s user 0m0.000s sys 0m35.354s after the patch: real 0m1.049s user 0m0.000s sys 0m1.042s

The advisory is shared for download at git.kernel.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2022-48731. The exploitation is known to be difficult. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available.

Upgrading to version 5.4.178, 5.10.99, 5.15.22 or 5.16.8 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch d3533ee20e9a/352715593e81/a5389c80992f/cebb0aceb21a/c10a0f877fe0 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at git.kernel.org. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• Operating System

Vendor

• Linux

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• Kernel

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• 5.10.0
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• 5.16.0
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• 5.16.7

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.kernel.org/

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