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Seunghun Han 4fa430a8bc ACPICA: fix acpi operand cache leak in dswstate.c
[ Upstream commit 156fd20a41e776bbf334bd5e45c4f78dfc90ce1c ]

ACPICA commit 987a3b5cf7175916e2a4b6ea5b8e70f830dfe732

I found an ACPI cache leak in ACPI early termination and boot continuing case.

When early termination occurs due to malicious ACPI table, Linux kernel
terminates ACPI function and continues to boot process. While kernel terminates
ACPI function, kmem_cache_destroy() reports Acpi-Operand cache leak.

Boot log of ACPI operand cache leak is as follows:
>[    0.585957] ACPI: Added _OSI(Module Device)
>[    0.587218] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Device)
>[    0.588530] ACPI: Added _OSI(3.0 _SCP Extensions)
>[    0.589790] ACPI: Added _OSI(Processor Aggregator Device)
>[    0.591534] ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: C806E00000004002/0x2 (20170303/hwvalid-155)
>[    0.594351] ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, Unable to initialize fixed events (20170303/evevent-88)
>[    0.597858] ACPI: Unable to start the ACPI Interpreter
>[    0.599162] ACPI Error: Could not remove SCI handler (20170303/evmisc-281)
>[    0.601836] kmem_cache_destroy Acpi-Operand: Slab cache still has objects
>[    0.603556] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.12.0-rc5 #26
>[    0.605159] Hardware name: innotek gmb_h virtual_box/virtual_box, BIOS virtual_box 12/01/2006
>[    0.609177] Call Trace:
>[    0.610063]  ? dump_stack+0x5c/0x81
>[    0.611118]  ? kmem_cache_destroy+0x1aa/0x1c0
>[    0.612632]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
>[    0.613906]  ? acpi_os_delete_cache+0xa/0x10
>[    0.617986]  ? acpi_ut_delete_caches+0x3f/0x7b
>[    0.619293]  ? acpi_terminate+0xa/0x14
>[    0.620394]  ? acpi_init+0x2af/0x34f
>[    0.621616]  ? __class_create+0x4c/0x80
>[    0.623412]  ? video_setup+0x7f/0x7f
>[    0.624585]  ? acpi_sleep_proc_init+0x27/0x27
>[    0.625861]  ? do_one_initcall+0x4e/0x1a0
>[    0.627513]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x19e/0x21f
>[    0.628972]  ? rest_init+0x80/0x80
>[    0.630043]  ? kernel_init+0xa/0x100
>[    0.631084]  ? ret_from_fork+0x25/0x30
>[    0.633343] vgaarb: loaded
>[    0.635036] EDAC MC: Ver: 3.0.0
>[    0.638601] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>[    0.639833] PCI host bridge to bus 0000:00
>[    0.641031] pci_bus 0000:00: root bus resource [io  0x0000-0xffff]
> ... Continue to boot and log is omitted ...

I analyzed this memory leak in detail and found acpi_ds_obj_stack_pop_and_
delete() function miscalculated the top of the stack. acpi_ds_obj_stack_push()
function uses walk_state->operand_index for start position of the top, but
acpi_ds_obj_stack_pop_and_delete() function considers index 0 for it.
Therefore, this causes acpi operand memory leak.

This cache leak causes a security threat because an old kernel (<= 4.9) shows
memory locations of kernel functions in stack dump. Some malicious users
could use this information to neutralize kernel ASLR.

I made a patch to fix ACPI operand cache leak.

Link: 987a3b5c
Signed-off-by: Seunghun Han <kkamagui@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/4999480.31r3eYUQgx@rjwysocki.net
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
arch mips: Add -std= flag specified in KBUILD_CFLAGS to vdso CFLAGS 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
block block: fix 'kmem_cache of name 'bio-108' already exists' 2025-04-10 14:29:37 +02:00
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crypto crypto: algif_hash - fix double free in hash_accept 2025-06-04 14:32:35 +02:00
Documentation x86/bugs: Make spectre user default depend on MITIGATION_SPECTRE_V2 2025-06-04 14:32:32 +02:00
drivers ACPICA: fix acpi operand cache leak in dswstate.c 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
fs f2fs: prevent kernel warning due to negative i_nlink from corrupted image 2025-06-27 11:02:51 +01:00
include coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump helper 2025-06-04 14:32:36 +02:00
init sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION depend on CONFIG_SMP 2025-05-02 07:39:28 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
kernel ftrace: Fix UAF when lookup kallsym after ftrace disabled 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
lib dql: Fix dql->limit value when reset. 2025-06-04 14:32:30 +02:00
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mm mm: fix ratelimit_pages update error in dirty_ratio_handler() 2025-06-27 11:02:52 +01:00
net NFC: nci: uart: Set tty->disc_data only in success path 2025-06-27 11:02:51 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: Fix a resource leak 2024-12-14 19:44:50 +01:00
scripts kbuild: fix argument parsing in scripts/config 2025-06-04 14:32:31 +02:00
security smack: recognize ipv4 CIPSO w/o categories 2025-06-04 14:32:33 +02:00
sound ALSA: pcm: Fix race of buffer access at PCM OSS layer 2025-06-04 14:32:35 +02:00
tools perf record: Fix incorrect --user-regs comments 2025-06-27 11:02:48 +01:00
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virt KVM: arm64: Ignore PMCNTENSET_EL0 while checking for overflow status 2024-12-19 18:05:04 +01:00
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