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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Aug 22, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 12, 2024

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

riscv: fix oops caused by irqsoff latency tracer

The trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() require the caller to setup frame pointer
properly. This because these two functions use macro 'CALLER_ADDR1' (aka.
__builtin_return_address(1)) to acquire caller info. If the $fp is used
for other purpose, the code generated this macro (as below) could trigger
memory access fault.

0xffffffff8011510e <+80>: ld a1,-16(s0)
0xffffffff80115112 <+84>: ld s2,-8(a1) # <-- paging fault here

The oops message during booting if compiled with 'irqoff' tracer enabled:
[ 0.039615][ T0] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000f8
[ 0.041925][ T0] Oops [#1]
[ 0.042063][ T0] Modules linked in:
[ 0.042864][ T0] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc1-00233-g9a20c48d1ed2 #29
[ 0.043568][ T0] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[ 0.044343][ T0] epc : trace_hardirqs_on+0x56/0xe2
[ 0.044601][ T0] ra : restore_all+0x12/0x6e
[ 0.044721][ T0] epc : ffffffff80126a5c ra : ffffffff80003b94 sp : ffffffff81403db0
[ 0.044801][ T0] gp : ffffffff8163acd8 tp : ffffffff81414880 t0 : 0000000000000020
[ 0.044882][ T0] t1 : 0098968000000000 t2 : 0000000000000000 s0 : ffffffff81403de0
[ 0.044967][ T0] s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : 0000000000000001 a1 : 0000000000000100
[ 0.045046][ T0] a2 : 0000000000000000 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.045124][ T0] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000000054494d45
[ 0.045210][ T0] s2 : ffffffff80003b94 s3 : ffffffff81a8f1b0 s4 : ffffffff80e27b50
[ 0.045289][ T0] s5 : ffffffff81414880 s6 : ffffffff8160fa00 s7 : 00000000800120e8
[ 0.045389][ T0] s8 : 0000000080013100 s9 : 000000000000007f s10: 0000000000000000
[ 0.045474][ T0] s11: 0000000000000000 t3 : 7fffffffffffffff t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 0.045548][ T0] t5 : 0000000000000000 t6 : ffffffff814aa368
[ 0.045620][ T0] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000000000f8 cause: 000000000000000d
[ 0.046402][ T0] [] restore_all+0x12/0x6e

This because the $fp(aka. $s0) register is not used as frame pointer in the
assembly entry code.

resume_kernel:
	REG_L s0, TASK_TI_PREEMPT_COUNT(tp)
	bnez s0, restore_all
	REG_L s0, TASK_TI_FLAGS(tp)
            andi s0, s0, _TIF_NEED_RESCHED
            beqz s0, restore_all
            call preempt_schedule_irq
            j restore_all

To fix above issue, here we add one extra level wrapper for function
trace_hardirqs_{on,off}() so they can be safely called by low level entry
code.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 22, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 22, 2024
Last updated Sep 12, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.042%
(5th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-48922

GHSA ID

GHSA-cp82-8q86-pm99

Source code

No known source code

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