Re: [PATCH] mm,memblock: reset memblock.reserved to system init state to prevent UAF

[Guenter Roeck]

Hi,

On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 03:41:37PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> The memblock_discard function frees the memblock.reserved.regions
> array, which is good.
> 
> However, if a subsequent memblock_free (or memblock_phys_free) comes
> in later, from for example ima_free_kexec_buffer, that will result in
> a use after free bug in memblock_isolate_range.
> 
> When running a kernel with CONFIG_KASAN enabled, this will cause a
> kernel panic very early in boot. Without CONFIG_KASAN, there is
> a chance that memblock_isolate_range might scribble on memory
> that is now in use by somebody else.
> 
> Avoid those issues by making sure that memblock_discard points
> memblock.reserved.regions back at the static buffer.
> 
> If memblock_discard is called while there is still memory
> in the memblock.reserved type, that will print a warning
> in memblock_remove_region.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxxx>

This patch results in the following WARNING backtrace when booting sparc
or sparc64 images in qemu. Bisect log is attached.

sparc:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memblock.c:352 memblock_remove_region+0x80/0xb0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00350-gb917f578dc45 #1
[f0022af8 : __warn+0x9c/0xe4 ]
[f0022b84 : warn_slowpath_fmt+0x44/0x54 ]
[f07a16a0 : memblock_remove_region+0x80/0xb0 ]
[f0787240 : memblock_discard+0x84/0x100 ]
[f0784e00 : page_alloc_init_late+0xc/0x5c ]
[f07782fc : kernel_init_freeable+0xb8/0x208 ]
[f05ad41c : kernel_init+0x10/0x120 ]
[f0007ed0 : ret_from_kernel_thread+0xc/0x38 ]
[00000000 : 0x0 ]
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

sparc64:

[    1.876345] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[    1.876852] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memblock.c:352 memblock_remove_region+0x78/0xb4
[    1.877912] Modules linked in:
[    1.880783] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3+ #1
[    1.881473] Call Trace:
[    1.881935] [<0000000000467c30>] __warn+0xf0/0x1a0
[    1.882515] [<0000000000467d98>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0xb8/0x100
[    1.883128] [<0000000001b8d83c>] memblock_remove_region+0x78/0xb4
[    1.883564] [<0000000001b6df50>] memblock_discard+0x88/0x108
[    1.883987] [<0000000001b6abc0>] page_alloc_init_late+0xc/0x94
[    1.884594] [<0000000001b56e44>] kernel_init_freeable+0xcc/0x228
[    1.885181] [<0000000000f673c4>] kernel_init+0x18/0x134
[    1.885612] [<00000000004060e8>] ret_from_fork+0x1c/0x2c
[    1.886035] [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
[    1.886697] irq event stamp: 1013
[    1.887293] hardirqs last  enabled at (1021): [<00000000004e1534>] __up_console_sem+0x74/0xa0
[    1.887786] hardirqs last disabled at (1028): [<00000000004e1510>] __up_console_sem+0x50/0xa0
[    1.888273] softirqs last  enabled at (1004): [<0000000000f76ae4>] __do_softirq+0x4c4/0x5a0
[    1.888760] softirqs last disabled at (997): [<000000000042b94c>] do_softirq_own_stack+0x2c/0x40
[    1.889610] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Guenter

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