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CVE-2024-56613
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CVE-2024-56613
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sched/numa: fix memory leak due to the overwritten vma->numab_state
[Problem Description]
When running the hackbench program of LTP, the following memory leak is
reported by kmemleak.
# /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/hackbench 20 thread 1000
Running with 20*40 (== 800) tasks.
# dmesg | grep kmemleak
…
kmemleak: 480 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
kmemleak: 665 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak)
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff888cd8ca2c40 (size 64):
comm "hackbench", pid 17142, jiffies 4299780315 hex dump (first 32 bytes): ac 74 49 00 01 00 00 00 4c 84 49 00 01 00 00 00 .tI.....L.I..... 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc bff18fd4): [<ffffffff81419a89>] __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x2f9/0x3f0 [<ffffffff8113f715>] task_numa_work+0x725/0xa00 [<ffffffff8110f878>] task_work_run+0x58/0x90 [<ffffffff81ddd9f8>] syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1c8/0x1e0 [<ffffffff81dd78d5>] do_syscall_64+0x85/0x150 [<ffffffff81e0012b>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
…
This issue can be consistently reproduced on three different servers:
- a 448-core server
- a 256-core server
- a 192-core server
[Root Cause]
Since multiple threads are created by the hackbench program (along with
the command argument ‘thread’), a shared vma might be accessed by two or
more cores simultaneously. When two or more cores observe that
vma->numab_state is NULL at the same time, vma->numab_state will be
overwritten.
Although current code ensures that only one thread scans the VMAs in a
single ‘numa_scan_period’, there might be a chance for another thread
to enter in the next ‘numa_scan_period’ while we have not gotten till
numab_state allocation [1].
Note that the command /opt/ltp/testcases/bin/hackbench 50 process 1000
cannot the reproduce the issue. It is verified with 200+ test runs.
[Solution]
Use the cmpxchg atomic operation to ensure that only one thread executes
the vma->numab_state assignment.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1794be3c-358c-4cdc-a43d-a1f841d91ef7@amd.com/
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