CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-48731
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-06-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/kmemleak: avoid scanning potential huge holes
When using devm_request_free_mem_region() and devm_memremap_pages() to
add ZONE_DEVICE memory, if requested free mem region's end pfn were
huge(e.g., 0x400000000), the node_end_pfn() will be also huge (see
move_pfn_range_to_zone()). Thus it creates a huge hole between
node_start_pfn() and node_end_pfn().
We found on some AMD APUs, amdkfd requested such a free mem region and
created a huge hole. In such a case, following code snippet was just
doing busy test_bit() looping on the huge hole.
for (pfn = start_pfn; pfn < end_pfn; pfn++) {
struct page *page = pfn_to_online_page(pfn);
if (!page)
continue;
...
}
So we got a soft lockup:
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 26s! [bash:1221]
CPU: 6 PID: 1221 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.15.0-custom #1
RIP: 0010:pfn_to_online_page+0x5/0xd0
Call Trace:
? kmemleak_scan+0x16a/0x440
kmemleak_write+0x306/0x3a0
? common_file_perm+0x72/0x170
full_proxy_write+0x5c/0x90
vfs_write+0xb9/0x260
ksys_write+0x67/0xe0
__x64_sys_write+0x1a/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
I did some tests with the patch.
(1) amdgpu module unloaded
before the patch:
real 0m0.976s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.968s
after the patch:
real 0m0.981s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.973s
(2) amdgpu module loaded
before the patch:
real 0m35.365s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m35.354s
after the patch:
real 0m1.049s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m1.042s
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 5.4.178)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.22)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 5.16.8)
• linux linux kernel 5.17
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/352715593e81b917ce1b321e794549815b850134 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5389c80992f0001ee505838fe6a8b20897ce96e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c10a0f877fe007021d70f9cada240f42adc2b5db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cebb0aceb21ad91429617a40e3a17444fabf1529 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3533ee20e9a0e2e8f60384da7450d43d1c63d1a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/352715593e81b917ce1b321e794549815b850134 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a5389c80992f0001ee505838fe6a8b20897ce96e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c10a0f877fe007021d70f9cada240f42adc2b5db Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cebb0aceb21ad91429617a40e3a17444fabf1529 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3533ee20e9a0e2e8f60384da7450d43d1c63d1a Patch