CVE-2024-40914
mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio
Severity Score
Exploit Likelihood
Affected Versions
Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
-Decision
Descriptions
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio
When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:
kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00491-gd5ce28f156fe-dirty #14
RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0
RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0
RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492
R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
do_shrink_slab+0x14f/0x6a0
shrink_slab+0xca/0x8c0
shrink_node+0x2d0/0x7d0
balance_pgdat+0x33a/0x720
kswapd+0x1f3/0x410
kthread+0xd5/0x100
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0
RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0
RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492
R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
The root cause is that HWPoison flag will be set for huge_zero_folio
without increasing the folio refcnt. But then unpoison_memory() will
decrease the folio refcnt unexpectedly as it appears like a successfully
hwpoisoned folio leading to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0) when
releasing huge_zero_folio.
Skip unpoisoning huge_zero_folio in unpoison_memory() to fix this issue.
We're not prepared to unpoison huge_zero_folio yet.
CVSS Scores
SSVC
- Decision:Track
Timeline
- 2024-07-12 CVE Reserved
- 2024-07-12 CVE Published
- 2024-07-13 EPSS Updated
- 2024-12-19 CVE Updated
- ---------- Exploited in Wild
- ---------- KEV Due Date
- ---------- First Exploit
CWE
- CWE-911: Improper Update of Reference Count
CAPEC
References (10)
| URL | Tag | Source |
|---|---|---|
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f8f836100fff594cea8a0a027affb9d5520f09a7 | Vuln. Introduced | |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/478d134e9506c7e9bfe2830ed03dd85e97966313 | Vuln. Introduced | |
| https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13d9b8cd12f37d133b07ea5b323583e8a0c6b738 | Vuln. Introduced |
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|
| URL | Date | SRC |
|---|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-40914 | 2024-09-04 | |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2297498 | 2024-09-04 |
Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions
| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | ||||||
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| Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status | <-- --> | Vendor | Product | Version | Other | Status |
| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.15.41 < 5.15.162 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.15.41 < 5.15.162" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.18 < 6.1.95 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.18 < 6.1.95" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.18 < 6.6.35 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.18 < 6.6.35" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.18 < 6.9.6 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.18 < 6.9.6" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | >= 5.18 < 6.10 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version " >= 5.18 < 6.10" | en |
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| Linux Search vendor "Linux" | Linux Kernel Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" | 5.17.9 Search vendor "Linux" for product "Linux Kernel" and version "5.17.9" | en |
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