Vulnerability CVE-2024-26953

Vulnerability CVE-2024-26953

Published: 2024-05-01

Description:

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: esp: fix bad handling of pages from page_pool

When the skb is reorganized during esp_output (!esp->inline), the pages
coming from the original skb fragments are supposed to be released back
to the system through put_page. But if the skb fragment pages are
originating from a page_pool, calling put_page on them will trigger a
page_pool leak which will eventually result in a crash.

This leak can be easily observed when using CONFIG_DEBUG_VM and doing
ipsec + gre (non offloaded) forwarding:

BUG: Bad page state in process ksoftirqd/16 pfn:1451b6
page:00000000de2b8d32 refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1451b6000 pfn:0x1451b6
flags: 0x200000000000000(node=0|zone=2)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 0200000000000000 dead000000000040 ffff88810d23c000 0000000000000000
raw: 00000001451b6000 0000000000000001 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: page_pool leak
Modules linked in: ip_gre gre mlx5_ib mlx5_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink iptable_nat nf_nat xt_addrtype br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core]
CPU: 16 PID: 96 Comm: ksoftirqd/16 Not tainted 6.8.0-rc4+ #22
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x36/0x50
bad_page+0x70/0xf0
free_unref_page_prepare+0x27a/0x460
free_unref_page+0x38/0x120
esp_ssg_unref.isra.0+0x15f/0x200
esp_output_tail+0x66d/0x780
esp_xmit+0x2c5/0x360
validate_xmit_xfrm+0x313/0x370
? validate_xmit_skb+0x1d/0x330
validate_xmit_skb_list+0x4c/0x70
sch_direct_xmit+0x23e/0x350
__dev_queue_xmit+0x337/0xba0
? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0
ip_finish_output2+0x25e/0x580
iptunnel_xmit+0x19b/0x240
ip_tunnel_xmit+0x5fb/0xb60
ipgre_xmit+0x14d/0x280 [ip_gre]
dev_hard_start_xmit+0xc3/0x1c0
__dev_queue_xmit+0x208/0xba0
? nf_hook_slow+0x3f/0xd0
ip_finish_output2+0x1ca/0x580
ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x32/0x40
ip_sublist_rcv+0x1b2/0x1f0
? ip_rcv_finish_core.constprop.0+0x460/0x460
ip_list_rcv+0x103/0x130
__netif_receive_skb_list_core+0x181/0x1e0
netif_receive_skb_list_internal+0x1b3/0x2c0
napi_gro_receive+0xc8/0x200
gro_cell_poll+0x52/0x90
__napi_poll+0x25/0x1a0
net_rx_action+0x28e/0x300
__do_softirq+0xc3/0x276
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
run_ksoftirqd+0x1e/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0xa6/0x130
kthread+0xcd/0x100
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
</TASK>

The suggested fix is to introduce a new wrapper (skb_page_unref) that
covers page refcounting for page_pool pages as well.

References:

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8291b4eac429c480386669444c6377573f5d8664

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1abb20a5f4b02fb3020f88456fc1e6069b3cdc45

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f278ff9db67264715d0d50e3e75044f8b78990f4

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c3198822c6cb9fb588e446540485669cc81c5d34

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