CVE-2021-47531

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/msm: Fix mmap to include VM_IO and VM_DONTDUMP

In commit 510410bfc034 ("drm/msm: Implement mmap as GEM object
function") we switched to a new/cleaner method of doing things. That's
good, but we missed a little bit.

Before that commit, we used to _first_ run through the
drm_gem_mmap_obj() case where `obj->funcs->mmap()` was NULL. That meant
that we ran:

  vma->vm_flags |= VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP;
  vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags));
  vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_decrypted(vma->vm_page_prot);

...and _then_ we modified those mappings with our own. Now that
`obj->funcs->mmap()` is no longer NULL we don't run the default
code. It looks like the fact that the vm_flags got VM_IO / VM_DONTDUMP
was important because we're now getting crashes on Chromebooks that
use ARC++ while logging out. Specifically a crash that looks like this
(this is on a 5.10 kernel w/ relevant backports but also seen on a
5.15 kernel):

  Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffc008000000
  Mem abort info:
    ESR = 0x96000006
    EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
    SET = 0, FnV = 0
    EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
  Data abort info:
    ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000006
    CM = 0, WnR = 0
  swapper pgtable: 4k pages, 39-bit VAs, pgdp=000000008293d000
  [ffffffc008000000] pgd=00000001002b3003, p4d=00000001002b3003,
                     pud=00000001002b3003, pmd=0000000000000000
  Internal error: Oops: 96000006 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  [...]
  CPU: 7 PID: 15734 Comm: crash_dump64 Tainted: G W 5.10.67 #1 [...]
  Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. sc7280 IDP SKU2 platform (DT)
  pstate: 80400009 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--)
  pc : __arch_copy_to_user+0xc0/0x30c
  lr : copyout+0xac/0x14c
  [...]
  Call trace:
   __arch_copy_to_user+0xc0/0x30c
   copy_page_to_iter+0x1a0/0x294
   process_vm_rw_core+0x240/0x408
   process_vm_rw+0x110/0x16c
   __arm64_sys_process_vm_readv+0x30/0x3c
   el0_svc_common+0xf8/0x250
   do_el0_svc+0x30/0x80
   el0_svc+0x10/0x1c
   el0_sync_handler+0x78/0x108
   el0_sync+0x184/0x1c0
  Code: f8408423 f80008c3 910020c6 36100082 (b8404423)

Let's add the two flags back in.

While we're at it, the fact that we aren't running the default means
that we _don't_ need to clear out VM_PFNMAP, so remove that and save
an instruction.

NOTE: it was confirmed that VM_IO was the important flag to fix the
problem I was seeing, but adding back VM_DONTDUMP seems like a sane
thing to do so I'm doing that too.
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Awaiting analysis
This vulnerability is currently awaiting analysis.
Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 17%
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