Linux 6.19-rc2 (9448598b22 ("Linux 6.19-rc2")) is crashing with a NULL
pointer dereference on arm64 hosts:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000000000c8
pc : cap_capable (security/commoncap.c:82 security/commoncap.c:128)
Call trace:
cap_capable (security/commoncap.c:82 security/commoncap.c:128) (P)
security_capable (security/security.c:?)
ns_capable_noaudit (kernel/capability.c:342 kernel/capability.c:381)
__ptrace_may_access (./include/linux/rcupdate.h:895 kernel/ptrace.c:326)
ptrace_may_access (kernel/ptrace.c:353)
do_task_stat (fs/proc/array.c:467)
proc_tgid_stat (fs/proc/array.c:673)
proc_single_show (fs/proc/base.c:803)
I've bissected the problem to commit a5baf582f4 ("arm64/efi: Call EFI
runtime services without disabling preemption").
>From my analyzes, the crash occurs because efi_mm lacks a user_ns field
initialization. This was previously harmless, but commit a5baf582f4
("arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption")
changed the EFI runtime call path to use kthread_use_mm(&efi_mm), which
temporarily adopts efi_mm as the current mm for the calling kthread.
When a thread has an active mm, LSM hooks like cap_capable() expect
mm->user_ns to be valid for credential checks. With efi_mm.user_ns being
NULL, capability checks during possible /proc access dereference the
NULL pointer and crash.
Fix by initializing efi_mm.user_ns to &init_user_ns.
Fixes: a5baf582f4 ("arm64/efi: Call EFI runtime services without disabling preemption")
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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