The module loader doesn't check for bounds of the ELF section index in
simplify_symbols():
for (i = 1; i < symsec->sh_size / sizeof(Elf_Sym); i++) {
const char *name = info->strtab + sym[i].st_name;
switch (sym[i].st_shndx) {
case SHN_COMMON:
[...]
default:
/* Divert to percpu allocation if a percpu var. */
if (sym[i].st_shndx == info->index.pcpu)
secbase = (unsigned long)mod_percpu(mod);
else
/** HERE --> **/ secbase = info->sechdrs[sym[i].st_shndx].sh_addr;
sym[i].st_value += secbase;
break;
}
}
A symbol with an out-of-bounds st_shndx value, for example 0xffff
(known as SHN_XINDEX or SHN_HIRESERVE), may cause a kernel panic:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ...
RIP: 0010:simplify_symbols+0x2b2/0x480
...
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
This can happen when module ELF is legitimately using SHN_XINDEX or
when it is corrupted.
Add a bounds check in simplify_symbols() to validate that st_shndx is
within the valid range before using it.
This issue was discovered due to a bug in llvm-objcopy, see relevant
discussion for details [1].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/20251224005752.201911-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev/
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
In the error path of load_module(), under the free_module label, the
code calls lockdep_free_key_range() to release lock classes associated
with the MOD_DATA, MOD_RODATA and MOD_RO_AFTER_INIT module regions, and
subsequently invokes module_deallocate().
Since commit ac3b43283923 ("module: replace module_layout with
module_memory"), the module_deallocate() function calls free_mod_mem(),
which releases the lock classes as well and considers all module
regions.
Attempting to free these classes twice is unnecessary. Remove the
redundant code in load_module().
Fixes: ac3b43283923 ("module: replace module_layout with module_memory")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c
- "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
the test module for these library functions
- "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
debugger
- "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
the hung-task and lockup detectors fire
- "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
users away from their private implementations
- "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
makes TCP a little faster
- "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients
- "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO
- "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
cover letter:
This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.
As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
RAM across the kexec reboot.
Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
testing work.
- "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
/sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
hopefully be removed one day
- "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
regions
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
calibrate: update header inclusion
Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
test_kho: always print restore status
kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
...
Currently, when in-kernel module decompression (CONFIG_MODULE_DECOMPRESS) is enabled, IMA has no way to verify the appended module signature as it can't decompress the module. Define a new kernel_read_file_id enumerate READING_MODULE_COMPRESSED so IMA can calculate the compressed kernel module data hash on READING_MODULE_COMPRESSED and defer appraising/measuring it until on READING_MODULE when the module has been decompressed. Before enabling in-kernel module decompression, a kernel module in initramfs can still be loaded with ima_policy=secure_boot. So adjust the kernel module rule in secure_boot policy to allow either an IMA signature OR an appended signature i.e. to use "appraise func=MODULE_CHECK appraise_type=imasig|modsig". Reported-by: Karel Srot <ksrot@redhat.com> Suggested-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Coiby Xu <coxu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
The TAINT_RANDSTRUCT and TAINT_FWCTL flags are mistakenly set in the
taint_flags table as per-module flags. While this can be trivially
corrected, the issue can be avoided altogether by removing the
taint_flag.module field.
This is possible because, since commit 7fd8329ba502 ("taint/module: Clean
up global and module taint flags handling") in 2016, the handling of
module taint flags has been fully generic. Specifically,
module_flags_taint() can print all flags, and the required output buffer
size is properly defined in terms of TAINT_FLAGS_COUNT. The actual
per-module flags are always those added to module.taints by calls to
add_taint_module().
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251022082938.26670-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@atomlin.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberalin <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Pull more MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "mseal cleanups" (Lorenzo Stoakes)
Some mseal cleaning with no intended functional change.
- "Optimizations for khugepaged" (David Hildenbrand)
Improve khugepaged throughput by batching PTE operations for large
folios. This gain is mainly for arm64.
- "x86: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace and kprobes" (Mike Rapoport)
A bugfix, additional debug code and cleanups to the execmem code.
- "mm/shmem, swap: bugfix and improvement of mTHP swap in" (Kairui Song)
Bugfixes, cleanups and performance improvememnts to the mTHP swapin
code"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-08-03-12-35' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (38 commits)
mm: mempool: fix crash in mempool_free() for zero-minimum pools
mm: correct type for vmalloc vm_flags fields
mm/shmem, swap: fix major fault counting
mm/shmem, swap: rework swap entry and index calculation for large swapin
mm/shmem, swap: simplify swapin path and result handling
mm/shmem, swap: never use swap cache and readahead for SWP_SYNCHRONOUS_IO
mm/shmem, swap: tidy up swap entry splitting
mm/shmem, swap: tidy up THP swapin checks
mm/shmem, swap: avoid redundant Xarray lookup during swapin
x86/ftrace: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for ftrace allocations
x86/kprobes: enable EXECMEM_ROX_CACHE for kprobes allocations
execmem: drop writable parameter from execmem_fill_trapping_insns()
execmem: add fallback for failures in vmalloc(VM_ALLOW_HUGE_VMAP)
execmem: move execmem_force_rw() and execmem_restore_rox() before use
execmem: rework execmem_cache_free()
execmem: introduce execmem_alloc_rw()
execmem: drop unused execmem_update_copy()
mm: fix a UAF when vma->mm is freed after vma->vm_refcnt got dropped
mm/rmap: add anon_vma lifetime debug check
mm: remove mm/io-mapping.c
...
Some callers of execmem_alloc() require the memory to be temporarily writable even when it is allocated from ROX cache. These callers use execemem_make_temp_rw() right after the call to execmem_alloc(). Wrap this sequence in execmem_alloc_rw() API. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250713071730.4117334-3-rppt@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com> Reviewed-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
The variable last_unloaded_module::name tracks the name of the last
unloaded module. It is a string copy of module::name, which is
MODULE_NAME_LEN bytes in size and includes the NUL terminator. Therefore,
the size of last_unloaded_module::name can also be just MODULE_NAME_LEN,
without the need for an extra byte.
Fixes: e14af7eeb47e ("debug: track and print last unloaded module in the oops trace")
Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250630143535.267745-3-petr.pavlu@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <da.gomez@samsung.com>