CVE-2024-56544

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 4.20-6.11.10, 6.12.0-6.12.1, 6.13 - NULL Pointer Dereference in udmabuf_create

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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] <TASK> [ 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 6.11.11linux
linux/Kernel 6.12.0 - 6.12.2linux
Linux/Linux < 4.20
Linux/Linux 4.20
Linux/Linux 6.11.11 - 6.11.*
Linux/Linux 6.12.2 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 - 1c0844c6184e658064e14c4335885785ad3bf84b
Linux/Linux fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 - 2acc6192aa8570661ed37868c02c03002b1dc290
Linux/Linux fbb0de795078190a9834b3409e4b009cfb18a6d4 - 85bb72397cb63649fe493c96e27e1d0e4ed2ff63
... and 1 more
Published Dec 27, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026