Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/efi: defer freeing of boot services memory efi_free_boot_services() frees memory occupied by EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_CODE and EFI_BOOT_SERVICES_DATA using memblock_free_late(). There are two issue with that: memblock_free_late() should be used for memory allocated with memblock_alloc() while the memory reserved with memblock_reserve() should be freed with free_reserved_area(). More acutely, with CONFIG_DEFERRED_STRUCT_PAGE_INIT=y efi_free_boot_services() is called before deferred initialization of the memory map is complete. Benjamin Herrenschmidt reports that this causes a leak of ~140MB of RAM on EC2 t3a.nano instances which only have 512MB or RAM. If the freed memory resides in the areas that memory map for them is still uninitialized, they won't be actually freed because memblock_free_late() calls memblock_free_pages() and the latter skips uninitialized pages. Using free_reserved_area() at this point is also problematic because __free_page() accesses the buddy of the freed page and that again might end up in uninitialized part of the memory map. Delaying the entire efi_free_boot_services() could be problematic because in addition to freeing boot services memory it updates efi.memmap without any synchronization and that's undesirable late in boot when there is concurrency. More robust approach is to only defer freeing of the EFI boot services memory. Split efi_free_boot_services() in two. First efi_unmap_boot_services() collects ranges that should be freed into an array then efi_free_boot_services() later frees them after deferred init is complete.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected 0aed459e8487eb6ebdb4efe8cefe1eafbc704b30 before 4a2cb90c538f06c873a187aa743575d48685d7a6; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 7131bd1fecc749bc94fb44aae217bbd8a8a85264; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 6d8ba221e7aafaa2f284b7d22faee814c28e009d; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 227688312fece0026fc67a00ba9a0b3611ebe95d; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 6a25e25279282c5c8ade554c04c6ab9dc7902c64; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 399da820ecfe6f4f10c143e5c453d3559a04db9c; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before f9e9cc320854a76a39e7bc92d144554f3a727fad; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before 7dcf59422a3b0d20ddda844f856b4a1e0608a326; affected 916f676f8dc016103f983c7ec54c18ecdbb6e349 before a4b0bf6a40f3c107c67a24fbc614510ef5719980; affected 2.6.39.1 before 2.6.39.2 |
| Linux / Linux | affected 3.0; unaffected 0 before 3.0; unaffected 2.6.39.2 through 2.6.*; unaffected 5.10.253 through 5.10.*; unaffected 5.15.203 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.167 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.130 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.12.77 through 6.12.*; unaffected 6.18.17 through 6.18.*; unaffected 6.19.7 through 6.19.*; unaffected 7.0 through * |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a2cb90c538f06c873a187aa743575d48685d7a6
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7131bd1fecc749bc94fb44aae217bbd8a8a85264
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d8ba221e7aafaa2f284b7d22faee814c28e009d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/227688312fece0026fc67a00ba9a0b3611ebe95d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a25e25279282c5c8ade554c04c6ab9dc7902c64
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/399da820ecfe6f4f10c143e5c453d3559a04db9c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9e9cc320854a76a39e7bc92d144554f3a727fad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7dcf59422a3b0d20ddda844f856b4a1e0608a326
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4b0bf6a40f3c107c67a24fbc614510ef5719980
ADP enrichment
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