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Description

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

x86/mm: Disallow vsyscall page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault()

When trying to use copy_from_kernel_nofault() to read vsyscall page
through a bpf program, the following oops was reported:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffff600000
  #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
  PGD 3231067 P4D 3231067 PUD 3233067 PMD 3235067 PTE 0
  Oops: 0000 #1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
  CPU: 1 PID: 20390 Comm: test_progs ...... 6.7.0+ #58
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......
  RIP: 0010:copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110
  ......
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   ? copy_from_kernel_nofault+0x6f/0x110
   bpf_probe_read_kernel+0x1d/0x50
   bpf_prog_2061065e56845f08_do_probe_read+0x51/0x8d
   trace_call_bpf+0xc5/0x1c0
   perf_call_bpf_enter.isra.0+0x69/0xb0
   perf_syscall_enter+0x13e/0x200
   syscall_trace_enter+0x188/0x1c0
   do_syscall_64+0xb5/0xe0
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
   </TASK>
  ......
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

The oops is triggered when:

1) A bpf program uses bpf_probe_read_kernel() to read from the vsyscall
page and invokes copy_from_kernel_nofault() which in turn calls
__get_user_asm().

2) Because the vsyscall page address is not readable from kernel space,
a page fault exception is triggered accordingly.

3) handle_page_fault() considers the vsyscall page address as a user
space address instead of a kernel space address. This results in the
fix-up setup by bpf not being applied and a page_fault_oops() is invoked
due to SMAP.

Considering handle_page_fault() has already considered the vsyscall page
address as a userspace address, fix the problem by disallowing vsyscall
page read for copy_from_kernel_nofault().

CREATE(Triage):(User=admin) [CVE-2024-26906 (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26906)

CVEs

• CVE-2024-26906