CVE-2021-47462

mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()

Published May 22, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 5.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()

syzbot reported access to unitialized memory in mbind() [1]

Issue came with commit bda420b98505 ("numa balancing: migrate on fault
among multiple bound nodes")

This commit added a new bit in MPOL_MODE_FLAGS, but only checked valid
combination (MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING can only be used with MPOL_BIND) in
do_set_mempolicy()

This patch moves the check in sanitize_mpol_flags() so that it is also
used by mbind()

[1]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
__mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]
vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190
mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811
do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333
kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
__do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
__se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
__x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

Uninit was created at:
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3221 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3230 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc+0x751/0xff0 mm/slub.c:3235
mpol_new mm/mempolicy.c:293 [inline]
do_mbind+0x912/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1289
kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
__do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
__se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
__x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
=====================================================
Kernel panic - not syncing: panic_on_kmsan set ...
CPU: 0 PID: 15049 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G B 5.15.0-rc2-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Call Trace:
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1ff/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106
dump_stack+0x25/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:113
panic+0x44f/0xdeb kernel/panic.c:232
kmsan_report+0x2ee/0x300 mm/kmsan/report.c:186
__msan_warning+0xd7/0x150 mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c:208
__mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260
mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]
vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190
mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811
do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333
kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]
__do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]
__se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
__x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Weaknesses CWE-908
CPEs cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.15:rc6:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Linux
Linux linux Kernel
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses
  • CWE-665

    Improper Initialization

  • CWE-908

    Use of Uninitialized Resource

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Published
Updated
May 11, 2026, 1:55 PM
Reserved
May 22, 2024, 6:20 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 22, 2024, 7:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:17 AM
Severity
Low
Public date
May 22, 2024, 12:00 AM