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Description

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

rcu: dump vmalloc memory info safely

Currently, for double invoke call_rcu(), will dump rcu_head objects memory
info, if the objects is not allocated from the slab allocator, the
vmalloc_dump_obj() will be invoke and the vmap_area_lock spinlock need to
be held, since the call_rcu() can be invoked in interrupt context,
therefore, there is a possibility of spinlock deadlock scenarios.

And in Preempt-RT kernel, the rcutorture test also trigger the following
lockdep warning:

BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
 #0: ffffffffb534ee80 (fullstop_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: torture_init_begin+0x24/0xa0
 #1: ffffffffb5307940 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at: rcu_torture_init+0x1ec7/0x2370
 #2: ffffffffb536af40 (vmap_area_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
irq event stamp: 565512
hardirqs last  enabled at (565511): [<ffffffffb379b138>] __call_rcu_common+0x218/0x940
hardirqs last disabled at (565512): [<ffffffffb5804262>] rcu_torture_init+0x20b2/0x2370
softirqs last  enabled at (399112): [<ffffffffb36b2586>] __local_bh_enable_ip+0x126/0x170
softirqs last disabled at (399106): [<ffffffffb43fef59>] inet_register_protosw+0x9/0x1d0
Preemption disabled at:
[<ffffffffb58040c3>] rcu_torture_init+0x1f13/0x2370
CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G        W          6.5.0-rc4-rt2-yocto-preempt-rt+ #15
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.2-0-gea1b7a073390-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x68/0xb0
 dump_stack+0x14/0x20
 __might_resched+0x1aa/0x280
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_err_cb+0x10/0x10
 rt_spin_lock+0x53/0x130
 ? find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 find_vmap_area+0x1f/0x70
 vmalloc_dump_obj+0x20/0x60
 mem_dump_obj+0x22/0x90
 __call_rcu_common+0x5bf/0x940
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 call_rcu_hurry+0x14/0x20
 rcu_torture_init+0x1f82/0x2370
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_leak_cb+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_init+0x10/0x10
 do_one_initcall+0x6c/0x300
 ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x1b/0x30
 kernel_init_freeable+0x2b9/0x540
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 kernel_init+0x1f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x40/0x50
 ? __pfx_kernel_init+0x10/0x10
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
 </TASK>

The previous patch fixes this by using the deadlock-safe best-effort
version of find_vm_area.  However, in case of failure print the fact that
the pointer was a vmalloc pointer so that we print at least something.

CVEs

• CVE-2023-54113