5.5 - CVE-2024-41048

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

skmsg: Skip zero length skb in sk_msg_recvmsg

When running BPF selftests (./test_progs -t sockmap_basic) on a Loongarch platform, the following kernel panic occurs:

[...]
Oops[#1]:
CPU: 22 PID: 2824 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G OE 6.10.0-rc2+ #18
Hardware name: LOONGSON Dabieshan/Loongson-TC542F0, BIOS Loongson-UDK2018
... ...
ra: 90000000048bf6c0 sk_msg_recvmsg+0x120/0x560
ERA: 9000000004162774 copy_page_to_iter+0x74/0x1c0
CRMD: 000000b0 (PLV0 -IE -DA +PG DACF=CC DACM=CC -WE)
PRMD: 0000000c (PPLV0 +PIE +PWE)
EUEN: 00000007 (+FPE +SXE +ASXE -BTE)
ECFG: 00071c1d (LIE=0,2-4,10-12 VS=7)
ESTAT: 00010000 [PIL] (IS= ECode=1 EsubCode=0)
BADV: 0000000000000040
PRID: 0014c011 (Loongson-64bit, Loongson-3C5000)
Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(OE) xt_CHECKSUM xt_MASQUERADE xt_conntrack
Process test_progs (pid: 2824, threadinfo=0000000000863a31, task=...)
Stack : ...
Call Trace:
[<9000000004162774>] copy_page_to_iter+0x74/0x1c0
[<90000000048bf6c0>] sk_msg_recvmsg+0x120/0x560
[<90000000049f2b90>] tcp_bpf_recvmsg_parser+0x170/0x4e0
[<90000000049aae34>] inet_recvmsg+0x54/0x100
[<900000000481ad5c>] sock_recvmsg+0x7c/0xe0
[<900000000481e1a8>] __sys_recvfrom+0x108/0x1c0
[<900000000481e27c>] sys_recvfrom+0x1c/0x40
[<9000000004c076ec>] do_syscall+0x8c/0xc0
[<9000000003731da4>] handle_syscall+0xc4/0x160
Code: ...
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel relocated by 0x3510000
.text @ 0x9000000003710000
.data @ 0x9000000004d70000
.bss @ 0x9000000006469400
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---
[...]

This crash happens every time when running sockmap_skb_verdict_shutdown subtest in sockmap_basic.

This crash is because a NULL pointer is passed to page_address() in the sk_msg_recvmsg(). Due to the different implementations depending on the architecture, page_address(NULL) will trigger a panic on Loongarch platform but not on x86 platform. So this bug was hidden on x86 platform for a while, but now it is exposed on Loongarch platform. The root cause is that a zero length skb (skb->len == 0) was put on the queue.

This zero length skb is a TCP FIN packet, which was sent by shutdown(), invoked in test_sockmap_skb_verdict_shutdown():

shutdown(p1, SHUT_WR);

In this case, in sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue(), num_sge is zero, and no page is put to this sge (see sg_set_page in sg_set_page), but this empty sge is queued into ingress_msg list.

And in sk_msg_recvmsg(), this empty sge is used, and a NULL page is got by sg_page(sge). Pass this NULL page to copy_page_to_iter(), which passes it to kmap_local_page() and to page_address(), then kernel panics.

To solve this, we should skip this zero length skb. So in sk_msg_recvmsg(), if copy is zero, that means it's a zero length skb, skip invoking copy_page_to_iter(). We are using the EFAULT return triggered by copy_page_to_iter to check for is_fin in tcp_bpf.c.