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Linux 커널의 ksm_madvise 함수에서 VM_MERGEABLE 플래그를 처리할 때 상위 32비트 플래그가 의도치 않게 삭제되는 취약점입니다. 이로 인해 userfaultfd와 관련된 데이터 불일치가 발생하여 커널 패닉(Kernel BUG) 또는 경고가 발생할 수 있습니다.
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리눅스 운영체제의 메모리 관리 과정에서 특정 명령을 내릴 때, 시스템이 기억해야 할 중요한 설정값 일부를 실수로 지워버리는 오류입니다. 이 오류로 인해 시스템이 갑자기 멈추거나 비정상적으로 작동할 수 있습니다.
🇺🇸 원문 (English)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise
syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)
[ 44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!
[ 44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI
[ 44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)
[ 44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
[ 44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460
<snip other registers, drop unreliable trace>
[ 44.617726] Call Trace:
[ 44.617926] <TASK>
[ 44.619284] userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0
[ 44.620976] __fput+0x3f9/0xb60
[ 44.621240] fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210
[ 44.622222] __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120
[ 44.622530] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0
[ 44.622840] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227
Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during
userfaultfd_release_all(). Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer
to vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma->vm_flags.
The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()
with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,
it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of
vma->vm_flags.
Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and
int are 32-bit wide. This setup causes the following mishap during the &=
~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.
VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000.
After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then
promoted to unsigned long before the & operation. This promotion fills
upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and
even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0).
& operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff
instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears
the upper 32-bits of its value.
Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the
BIT() macro.
Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the
VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int
and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted
to unsigned long with leading 1s.
Note 2:
After commit 31defc3b01d9 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is
no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:
[ 45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067
but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.
[
[email protected]: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
📍 영향받는 시스템
Linux kernel (ksm_madvise 관련 기능이 포함된 버전)
⚔️ 공격 벡터
사용자가 MADV_UNMEARGEABLE 플래그를 사용하여 madvise() 시스템 호출을 수행할 때 발생
🛡️ 대응 방법
VM_MERGEABLE 상수를 unsigned long 타입으로 변경하고 BIT() 매크로를 사용하여 플래그 연산 오류를 수정한 최신 커널로 업데이트하십시오.
🔧 검증 코드
출력된 커널 버전이 취약점이 수정된 최신 패치 버전인지 확인하십시오.