Revert "mm,memblock: reset memblock.reserved to system init state to prevent UAF"
authorMike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 10:55:12 +0000 (13:55 +0300)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 28 Jul 2023 16:47:06 +0000 (09:47 -0700)
This reverts commit 9e46e4dcd9d6cd88342b028dbfa5f4fb7483d39c.

kbuild reports a warning in memblock_remove_region() because of a false
positive caused by partial reset of the memblock state.

Doing the full reset will remove the false positives, but will allow
late use of memblock_free() to go unnoticed, so it is better to revert
the offending commit.

   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/memblock.c:352 memblock_remove_region (kbuild/src/x86_64/mm/memblock.c:352 (discriminator 1))
   Modules linked in:
   CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc3-00001-g9e46e4dcd9d6 #2
   RIP: 0010:memblock_remove_region (kbuild/src/x86_64/mm/memblock.c:352 (discriminator 1))
   Call Trace:
     memblock_discard (kbuild/src/x86_64/mm/memblock.c:383)
     page_alloc_init_late (kbuild/src/x86_64/include/linux/find.h:208 kbuild/src/x86_64/include/linux/nodemask.h:266 kbuild/src/x86_64/mm/mm_init.c:2405)
     kernel_init_freeable (kbuild/src/x86_64/init/main.c:1325 kbuild/src/x86_64/init/main.c:1546)
     kernel_init (kbuild/src/x86_64/init/main.c:1439)
     ret_from_fork (kbuild/src/x86_64/arch/x86/kernel/process.c:145)
     ret_from_fork_asm (kbuild/src/x86_64/arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:298)

Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202307271656.447aa17e-oliver.sang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/memblock.c

index c39b36378f5dde5a3c88afce95cb88ce87ebcb8e..f9e61e565a5343316495227d0a6f3bcfc40954bd 100644 (file)
@@ -374,10 +374,6 @@ void __init memblock_discard(void)
                        kfree(memblock.reserved.regions);
                else
                        memblock_free_late(addr, size);
-               /* Reset to prevent UAF from stray frees. */
-               memblock.reserved.regions = memblock_reserved_init_regions;
-               memblock.reserved.cnt = 1;
-               memblock_remove_region(&memblock.reserved, 0);
        }
 
        if (memblock.memory.regions != memblock_memory_init_regions) {