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Privileges Required
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CVE-2022-48922

Disclosure Date: August 22, 2024
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Description

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

riscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer

The tracehardirqs{on,off}() require the caller to setup frame pointer
properly. This because these two functions use macro ‘CALLER_ADDR1’ (aka.
__builtin_return_address(1)) to acquire caller info. If the $fp is used
for other purpose, the code generated this macro (as below) could trigger
memory access fault.

0xffffffff8011510e <+80>: ld a1,-16(s0)
0xffffffff80115112 <+84>: ld s2,-8(a1) # <— paging fault here

The oops message during booting if compiled with ‘irqoff’ tracer enabled:
[ 0.039615][ T0] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000f8
[ 0.041925][ T0] Oops [#1]
[ 0.042063][ T0] Modules linked in:
[ 0.042864][ T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-00233-g9a20c48d1ed2 #29
[ 0.043568][ T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 0.044343][ T0] epc : trace_hardirqs_on+0x56/0xe2
[ 0.044601][ T0] ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e
[ 0.044721][ T0] epc : ffffffff80126a5c ra : ffffffff80003b94 sp : ffffffff81403db0
[ 0.044801][ T0] gp : ffffffff8163acd8 tp : ffffffff81414880 t0 : 0000000000000020
[ 0.044882][ T0] t1 : 0098968000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81403de0
[ 0.044967][ T0] s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : 0000000000000001 a1 : 0000000000000100
[ 0.045046][ T0] a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.045124][ T0] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000054494d45
[ 0.045210][ T0] s2 : ffffffff80003b94 s3 : ffffffff81a8f1b0 s4 : ffffffff80e27b50
[ 0.045289][ T0] s5 : ffffffff81414880 s6 : ffffffff8160fa00 s7 : 00000000800120e8
[ 0.045389][ T0] s8 : 0000000080013100 s9 : 000000000000007f s10: 0000000000000000
[ 0.045474][ T0] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 7fffffffffffffff t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.045548][ T0] t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ffffffff814aa368
[ 0.045620][ T0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000000000f8 cause: 000000000000000d
[ 0.046402][ T0] [<ffffffff80003b94>] restore_all+0x12/0x6e

This because the \(fp(aka. \)s0) register is not used as frame pointer in the
assembly entry code.

resume_kernel:
	REG_L s0, TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT(tp)
	bnez s0, restore_all
	REG_L s0, TASK_TI_FLAGS(tp)
            andi s0, s0, _TIF_NEED_RESCHED
            beqz s0, restore_all
            call preempt_schedule_irq
            j restore_all

To fix above issue, here we add one extra level wrapper for function
tracehardirqs{on,off}() so they can be safely called by low level entry
code.

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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

General Information

Vendors

  • linux

Products

  • linux kernel,
  • linux kernel 5.17
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