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CVE-2024-56612

Disclosure Date: December 27, 2024
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Description

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

mm/gup: handle NULL pages in unpin_user_pages()

The recent addition of “pofs” (pages or folios) handling to gup has a
flaw: it assumes that unpin_user_pages() handles NULL pages in the pages**
array. That’s not the case, as I discovered when I ran on a new
configuration on my test machine.

Fix this by skipping NULL pages in unpin_user_pages(), just like
unpin_folios() already does.

Details: when booting on x86 with “numa=fake=2 movablecore=4G” on Linux
6.12, and running this:

tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm

…I get the following crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0

Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die_body+0x66/0xb0
? page_fault_oops+0x30c/0x3b0
? do_user_addr_fault+0x6c3/0x720
? irqentry_enter+0x34/0x60
? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x100
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
unpin_user_pages+0x24/0xe0
check_and_migrate_movable_pages_or_folios+0x455/0x4b0
__gup_longterm_locked+0x3bf/0x820
? mmap_read_lock_killable+0x12/0x50
? __pfx_mmap_read_lock_killable+0x10/0x10
pin_user_pages+0x66/0xa0
gup_test_ioctl+0x358/0xb20
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.5 Medium
Impact Score:
3.6
Exploitability Score:
1.8
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector (AV):
Local
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
Low
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
None
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
High

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