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CVE-2024-56544
published 2024-12-27

CVE-2024-56544: 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…

PriorityP419medium5.5CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
0.21%
11.8th percentile
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] [ 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.

Affected

10 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.12.3-1 (forky)linux 6.12.3-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 < 2acc6192aa8570661ed37868c02c03002b1dc2902acc6192aa8570661ed37868c02c03002b1dc290
linuxlinux>= fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 < 85bb72397cb63649fe493c96e27e1d0e4ed2ff6385bb72397cb63649fe493c96e27e1d0e4ed2ff63
linuxlinux>= fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 < 1c0844c6184e658064e14c4335885785ad3bf84b1c0844c6184e658064e14c4335885785ad3bf84b
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.3-16.12.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.12.3-16.12.3-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.11.0-18.186.11.0-18.18
linuxlinux_kernel>= 4.20 < 6.11.116.11.11
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.12 < 6.12.26.12.2

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
osv5.5MEDIUM
vendor_debian5.5MEDIUM
vendor_redhat5.5MEDIUM
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