Bug 1227843 (CVE-2024-40915)

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

riscv: rewrite __kernel_map_pages() to fix sleeping in invalid context

__kernel_map_pages() is a debug function which clears the valid bit in page
table entry for deallocated pages to detect illegal memory accesses to
freed pages.

This function set/clear the valid bit using __set_memory(). __set_memory()
acquires init_mm's semaphore, and this operation may sleep. This is
problematic, because  __kernel_map_pages() can be called in atomic context,
and thus is illegal to sleep. An example warning that this causes:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1578
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd
preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
CPU: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 6.9.0-g1d4c6d784ef6 #37
Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff800060dc>] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24
[<ffffffff8091ef6e>] show_stack+0x2c/0x38
[<ffffffff8092baf8>] dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72
[<ffffffff8092bb24>] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[<ffffffff8003b7ac>] __might_resched+0x104/0x10e
[<ffffffff8003b7f4>] __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62
[<ffffffff8093276a>] down_write+0x20/0x72
[<ffffffff8000cf00>] __set_memory+0x82/0x2fa
[<ffffffff8000d324>] __kernel_map_pages+0x5a/0xd4
[<ffffffff80196cca>] __alloc_pages_bulk+0x3b2/0x43a
[<ffffffff8018ee82>] __vmalloc_node_range+0x196/0x6ba
[<ffffffff80011904>] copy_process+0x72c/0x17ec
[<ffffffff80012ab4>] kernel_clone+0x60/0x2fe
[<ffffffff80012f62>] kernel_thread+0x82/0xa0
[<ffffffff8003552c>] kthreadd+0x14a/0x1be
[<ffffffff809357de>] ret_from_fork+0xe/0x1c

Rewrite this function with apply_to_existing_page_range(). It is fine to
not have any locking, because __kernel_map_pages() works with pages being
allocated/deallocated and those pages are not changed by anyone else in the
meantime.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-40915
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40915
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8661a7af04991201640863ad1a0983173f84b5eb
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/919f8626099d9909b9a9620b05e8c8ab06581876
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5257ceb19d92069195254866421f425aea42915
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fb1cf0878328fe75d47f0aed0a65b30126fcefc4
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/security/vulns.git/plain/cve/published/2024/CVE-2024-40915.mbox