Bug 1225723 (CVE-2024-36882)

Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2024-36882: kernel: mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()
Product: [Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents Reporter: SMASH SMASH <smash_bz>
Component: IncidentsAssignee: Security Team bot <security-team>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P3 - Medium CC: carlos.lopez, jack, miroslav.franc
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: Other   
OS: Other   
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/408168/
Whiteboard: CVSSv3.1:SUSE:CVE-2024-36882:5.5:(AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Found By: Security Response Team Services Priority:
Business Priority: Blocker: ---
Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---

Description SMASH SMASH 2024-05-31 10:33:37 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

See commit f2c817bed58d ("mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path"),
ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed
pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large
folio.

 INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
 task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0     pid:7494  ppid:1      flags:0x00000200
 Call trace:
  __switch_to+0x14c/0x240
  __schedule+0x82c/0xdd0
  schedule+0x58/0xf0
  io_schedule+0x24/0xa0
  __folio_lock+0x130/0x300
  migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918
  migrate_pages+0x350/0x700
  compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38
  compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118
  try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280
  __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248
  __alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110
  alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130
  folio_alloc+0x20/0x78
  filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0
  page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308
  ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8
  page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8
  filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8
  filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0
  filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280
  ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4]
  vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118
  splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288
  do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108
  do_sendfile+0x328/0x468
  __arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148
  invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118
  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
  do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
  el0_svc+0x4c/0x1f8
  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
  el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-36882
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-36882.mbox
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7629ef6dda1564098aadeef38e5fbd11ee8627c4
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/468971c3f4b8187f25334503b68050a0e1370147
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf6a1d16c6df3c30b03f0c6a92a2ba7f86dffb45
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30153e4466647a17eebfced13eede5cbe4290e69
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36882
Comment 2 Jan Kara 2024-06-13 15:53:15 UTC
I've pushed out the fix to SLE15-SP6 branch. Reassigning back to security team.