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CVE-2024-56544
udmabuf: change folios array from kmalloc to kvmalloc
Published 2024-12-27 (22 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem drivers/dma-buf. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2024-56544 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | vulnerable | 6.1.190-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication. |
| Debian 13trixie | fixed | 6.12.3-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.12.3-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 6.12.3-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.12.3-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 6.12.3-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 6.12.3-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
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.
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c
- What this is
- USERSPACE DMA BUFFER DRIVERMAINTAINERS section matched on drivers/dma-buf/udmabuf.c · dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org · Maintained
Check it on the machine
grep -wE 'CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER|CONFIG_UDMABUF' /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian does not build this code in 1 release. It does build it in 3 releases, so the answer depends on which release the machine runs.
- bookwormn
- trixieYnot built on armel/rpi, armhf/armmp, armhf/armmp-lpae, armhf/rt/armmp, ppc64el/powerpc64le, ppc64el/powerpc64le-64k, riscv64/riscv64, s390x/s390x
- forky, sidYnot built on armhf/armmp, armhf/armmp-lpae, loong64/loong64, ppc64el/powerpc64le, ppc64el/powerpc64le-64k, riscv64/riscv64, s390x/s390x
- n
- not enabled on any flavour - this release does not build the code
- Y
- built in where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
- Build switches
- CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER, CONFIG_UDMABUF
- Reads as
- all on means the file is compiled; any one off means it is not.
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2024-12-27 (22 months ago)source
- CVSS
- no vector published, unrated
- Attack vector
- not published
- EPSS
- 0.22%, higher than 11.4% of all CVEssource
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- not yet assignedsource
- Subsystem
- drivers/dma-buf
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 4.20 | 6.11.11 | 2acc6192aa85 |
| 4.20 | 6.12.2 | 85bb72397cb6 |
| 4.20 | 6.13 | 1c0844c6184e |
Why the CNA scored it this way
The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2024-56544, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.