Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: mm: Fix the out of bound issue of vmemmap address
In sparse vmemmap model, the virtual address of vmemmap is calculated as: ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT)). And the struct page's va can be calculated with an offset: (vmemmap + (pfn)).
However, when initializing struct pages, kernel actually starts from the first page from the same section that phys_ram_base belongs to. If the first page's physical address is not (phys_ram_base >> PAGE_SHIFT), then we get an va below VMEMMAP_START when calculating va for it's struct page.
For example, if phys_ram_base starts from 0x82000000 with pfn 0x82000, the first page in the same section is actually pfn 0x80000. During init_unavailable_range(), we will initialize struct page for pfn 0x80000 with virtual address ((struct page *)VMEMMAP_START - 0x2000), which is below VMEMMAP_START as well as PCI_IO_END.
This commit fixes this bug by introducing a new variable 'vmemmap_start_pfn' which is aligned with memory section size and using it to calculate vmemmap address instead of phys_ram_base.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 8af1c121b0102041809bc137ec600d1865eaeedd, < 04350304428063da6a55a8a4597d409dc69148b2; >= 8310080799b40fd9f2a8b808c657269678c149af, < 92f08673d3f1893191323572f60e3c62f2e57c2f; >= a278d5c60f21aa15d540abb2f2da6e6d795c3e6e, < a4a7ac3d266008018f05fae53060fcb331151a14; >= a11dd49dcb9376776193e15641f84fcc1e5980c9, < d2bd51954ac8377c2f1eb1813e694788998add66; >= a11dd49dcb9376776193e15641f84fcc1e5980c9, < f754f27e98f88428aaf6be6e00f5cbce97f62d4b; 5941a90c55d3bfba732b32208d58d997600b44ef; 2a1728c15ec4f45ed9248ae22f626541c179bfbe; >= 5.10.212, < 5.10.258; >= 6.1.81, < 6.1.140; >= 6.6.21, < 6.6.72; >= 5.15.151, < 5.16; >= 6.7.9, < 6.8 |
| Linux | Linux | 6.8 |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/04350304428063da6a55a8a4597d409dc69148b2
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/92f08673d3f1893191323572f60e3c62f2e57c2fPatch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4a7ac3d266008018f05fae53060fcb331151a14Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d2bd51954ac8377c2f1eb1813e694788998add66Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f754f27e98f88428aaf6be6e00f5cbce97f62d4bPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html
Timeline
- Published
- Jan 21, 2025
- Last modified
- Aug 4, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified