CVE-2024-56544

udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Dec 27, 2024
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Dec 27, 2024

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Description

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

udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc

When PAGE_SIZE 4096, MAX_PAGE_ORDER 10, 64bit machine, page_alloc only support 4MB. If above this, trigger this warn and return NULL.

udmabuf can change size limit, if change it to 3072(3GB), and then alloc 3GB udmabuf, will fail create.

[ 4080.876581] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 4080.876843] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2015 at mm/page_alloc.c:4556 __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.878839] RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.879470] Call Trace: [ 4080.879473] <TASK> [ 4080.879473] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.879475] ? __warn.cold+0x8e/0xe8 [ 4080.880647] ? __alloc_pages+0x2c8/0x350 [ 4080.880909] ? report_bug+0xff/0x140 [ 4080.881175] ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x80 [ 4080.881556] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 [ 4080.881559] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 [ 4080.882077] ? udmabuf_create+0x131/0x400

Because MAX_PAGE_ORDER, kmalloc can max alloc 4096 * (1 << 10), 4MB memory, each array entry is pointer(8byte), so can save 524288 pages(2GB).

Further more, costly order(order 3) may not be guaranteed that it can be applied for, due to fragmentation.

This patch change udmabuf array use kvmalloc_array, this can fallback alloc into vmalloc, which can guarantee allocation for any size and does not affect the performance of kmalloc allocations.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before 2384a29db79bd2cfe0b7646ac0030cb355825e29Affected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before 2acc6192aa8570661ed37868c02c03002b1dc290Affected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before 85bb72397cb63649fe493c96e27e1d0e4ed2ff63Affected
  • fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 to before 1c0844c6184e658064e14c4335885785ad3bf84bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 4.20Affected
  • before 4.20Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.11.11 through 6.11.*Not affected
  • 6.12.2 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13 and laterNot affected

References

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