resolved HugeTLB pages vulnerability in mm/swapfile

CVE-2024-50199
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Key Information

Vendor
Linux
Status
Linux
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 November 2024

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma I got a bad pud error and lost a 1GB HugeTLB when calling swapoff. The problem can be reproduced by the following steps: 1. Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory. 2. Swapout the above anonymous memory. 3. run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message: mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7) We can tell that pud_clear_bad is called by pud_none_or_clear_bad in unuse_pud_range() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never be freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma to fix it.

Affected Version(s)

Linux < 0fe6e20b9c4c

Linux < 417d5838ca73

Linux < 0fe6e20b9c4c

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published.

  • Vulnerability Reserved.

Collectors

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