🇰🇷 한글 설명
Linux 커널의 virtiofs 구성에서 Direct IO 사용 시 대용량 버퍼를 처리하기 위해 kmalloc을 호출할 때 발생하는 취약점입니다. 매우 큰 메모리 할당 요청이 발생하면 커널 경고가 발생하고 finit_module() 시스템 호출이 무한 대기 상태에 빠져 시스템이 멈출 수 있습니다.
💡 쉬운 설명
가상 환경에서 커널 모듈을 불러올 때, 너무 큰 데이터를 한꺼번에 처리하려다 컴퓨터의 메모리 관리 시스템에 과부하를 주어 시스템이 멈추게 만드는 문제입니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
virtiofs: use pages instead of pointer for kernel direct IO
When trying to insert a 10MB kernel module kept in a virtio-fs with cache
disabled, the following warning was reported:
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 404 at mm/page_alloc.c:4551 ......
Modules linked in:
CPU: 1 PID: 404 Comm: insmod Not tainted 6.9.0-rc5+ #123
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) ......
RIP: 0010:__alloc_pages+0x2bf/0x380
......
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __warn+0x8e/0x150
? __alloc_pages+0x2bf/0x380
__kmalloc_large_node+0x86/0x160
__kmalloc+0x33c/0x480
virtio_fs_enqueue_req+0x240/0x6d0
virtio_fs_wake_pending_and_unlock+0x7f/0x190
queue_request_and_unlock+0x55/0x60
fuse_simple_request+0x152/0x2b0
fuse_direct_io+0x5d2/0x8c0
fuse_file_read_iter+0x121/0x160
__kernel_read+0x151/0x2d0
kernel_read+0x45/0x50
kernel_read_file+0x1a9/0x2a0
init_module_from_file+0x6a/0xe0
idempotent_init_module+0x175/0x230
__x64_sys_finit_module+0x5d/0xb0
x64_sys_call+0x1c3/0x9e0
do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xc0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
......
</TASK>
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
The warning is triggered as follows:
1) syscall finit_module() handles the module insertion and it invokes
kernel_read_file() to read the content of the module first.
2) kernel_read_file() allocates a 10MB buffer by using vmalloc() and
passes it to kernel_read(). kernel_read() constructs a kvec iter by
using iov_iter_kvec() and passes it to fuse_file_read_iter().
3) virtio-fs disables the cache, so fuse_file_read_iter() invokes
fuse_direct_io(). As for now, the maximal read size for kvec iter is
only limited by fc->max_read. For virtio-fs, max_read is UINT_MAX, so
fuse_direct_io() doesn't split the 10MB buffer. It saves the address and
the size of the 10MB-sized buffer in out_args[0] of a fuse request and
passes the fuse request to virtio_fs_wake_pending_and_unlock().
4) virtio_fs_wake_pending_and_unlock() uses virtio_fs_enqueue_req() to
queue the request. Because virtiofs need DMA-able address, so
virtio_fs_enqueue_req() uses kmalloc() to allocate a bounce buffer for
all fuse args, copies these args into the bounce buffer and passed the
physical address of the bounce buffer to virtiofsd. The total length of
these fuse args for the passed fuse request is about 10MB, so
copy_args_to_argbuf() invokes kmalloc() with a 10MB size parameter and
it triggers the warning in __alloc_pages():
if (WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp))
return NULL;
5) virtio_fs_enqueue_req() will retry the memory allocation in a
kworker, but it won't help, because kmalloc() will always return NULL
due to the abnormal size and finit_module() will hang forever.
A feasible solution is to limit the value of max_read for virtio-fs, so
the length passed to kmalloc() will be limited. However it will affect
the maximal read size for normal read. And for virtio-fs write initiated
from kernel, it has the similar problem but now there is no way to limit
fc->max_write in kernel.
So instead of limiting both the values of max_read and max_write in
kernel, introducing use_pages_for_kvec_io in fuse_conn and setting it as
true in virtiofs. When use_pages_for_kvec_io is enabled, fuse will use
pages instead of pointer to pass the KVEC_IO data.
After switching to pages for KVEC_IO data, these pages will be used for
DMA through virtio-fs. If these pages are backed by vmalloc(),
{flush|invalidate}_kernel_vmap_range() are necessary to flush or
invalidate the cache before the DMA operation. So add two new fields in
fuse_args_pages to record the base address of vmalloc area and the
condition indicating whether invalidation is needed. Perform the flush
in fuse_get_user_pages() for write operations and the invalidation in
fuse_release_user_pages() for read operations.
It may seem necessary to introduce another fie
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📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (6.9.0-rc5 및 관련 virtiofs 사용 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
virtio-fs를 사용하는 환경에서 캐시가 비활성화된 상태로 대용량 커널 모듈을 로드(insmod/finit_module)하여 발생
🛡️ 대응 방법
커널 업데이트를 통해 virtiofs가 포인터 대신 페이지(pages)를 사용하여 데이터를 전달하도록 수정된 버전을 적용하십시오.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 취약점이 해결된 패치 버전인지 확인하십시오.