UBUNTU-CVE-2024-35993
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: turn folio_test_hugetlb into a PageType The current folio_test_hugetlb() can be fooled by a concurrent folio split into returning true for a folio which has never belonged to hugetlbfs. This can't happen if the caller holds a refcount on it, but we have a few places (memory-failure, compaction, procfs) which do not and should not take a speculative reference. Since hugetlb pages do not use individual page mapcounts (they are always fully mapped and use the entire_mapcount field to record the number of mappings), the PageType field is available now that page_mapcount() ignores the value in this field. In compaction and with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, the current implementation can result in an oops, as reported by Luis. This happens since 9c5ccf2db04b ("mm: remove HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR") effectively added some VM_BUG_ON() checks in the PageHuge() testing path. [[email protected]: update vmcoreinfo]
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
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03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: turn folio_test_hugetlb into a PageType The current folio_test_hugetlb() can be fooled by a concurrent folio split into returning true for a folio which has never belonged to hugetlbfs. This can't happen if the caller holds a refcount on it, but we have a few places (memory-failure, compaction, procfs) which do not and should not take a speculative reference. Since hugetlb pages do not use individual page mapcounts (they are always fully mapped and use the entire_mapcount field to record the number of mappings), the PageType field is available now that page_mapcount() ignores the value in this field. In compaction and with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM enabled, the current implementation can result in an oops, as reported by Luis. This happens since 9c5ccf2db04b ("mm: remove HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR") effectively added some VM_BUG_ON() checks in the PageHuge() testing path. [[email protected]: update vmcoreinfo]
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/d99e3140a4d33e26066183ff727d8f02f56bec64
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2431b5f2650dfc47ce782d1ca7b02d6b3916976f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fdcc5b6359dfdaa52a55033bf50e2cedd66eb32
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d99e3140a4d33e26066183ff727d8f02f56bec64
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-35993
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6949-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6949-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6952-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6952-2
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6955-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-35993