CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-56677
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-12-28
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
powerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()
During early init CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES can be PAGE_SIZE,
since pageblock_order is still zero and it gets initialized
later during initmem_init() e.g.
setup_arch() -> initmem_init() -> sparse_init() -> set_pageblock_order()
One such use case where this causes issue is -
early_setup() -> early_init_devtree() -> fadump_reserve_mem() -> fadump_cma_init()
This causes CMA memory alignment check to be bypassed in
cma_init_reserved_mem(). Then later cma_activate_area() can hit
a VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1)) if the reserved memory
area was not pageblock_order aligned.
Fix it by moving the fadump_cma_init() after initmem_init(),
where other such cma reservations also gets called.
<stack trace>
==============
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10010
flags: 0x13ffff800000000(node=1|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff) CMA
raw: 013ffff800000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 << order) - 1))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:778!
Call Trace:
__free_one_page+0x57c/0x7b0 (unreliable)
free_pcppages_bulk+0x1a8/0x2c8
free_unref_page_commit+0x3d4/0x4e4
free_unref_page+0x458/0x6d0
init_cma_reserved_pageblock+0x114/0x198
cma_init_reserved_areas+0x270/0x3e0
do_one_initcall+0x80/0x2f8
kernel_init_freeable+0x33c/0x530
kernel_init+0x34/0x26c
ret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.19 < 6.1.120)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.64)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.11.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.12 < 6.12.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b94cae1c47f94588c3e7096963c1007c4d9c1d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7351c5a6507b4401aeecadb5959131410a339520 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aabef6301dcf410dfd2b8759cd413b2a003c7e3f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c1d1ef70834013fc3bd12b6a0f4664c6d75a74 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f551637fe9bf863386309e03f9d148d97f535ad1 Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html lists.debian.org