CVE-2024-56677

Summary

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 Software

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aabef6301dcf410dfd2b8759cd413b2a003c7e3f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c5c1d1ef70834013fc3bd12b6a0f4664c6d75a74
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f551637fe9bf863386309e03f9d148d97f535ad1
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7351c5a6507b4401aeecadb5959131410a339520
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b94cae1c47f94588c3e7096963c1007c4d9c1d

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