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HistoryMay 17, 2024 - 1:23 p.m.

CVE-2024-35797 mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs

2024-05-1713:23:08
Linux
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linux kernel
vulnerability
cachestat
shmem
swap entry
swapcache
invalidation
race condition
bug fix

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.1%

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

mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs

When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there
are two possible bugs:

  1. A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the
    shmem inode’s xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it
    will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[].

    Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further.

  2. When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem’s inode, the shadow
    entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in
    progress and we’re before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation,
    or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the
    shmem swap entry.

    This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter
    purely operates on pointer bits, so it won’t crash - node 0, memcg
    ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it’s a
    bogus test. In theory that could result in a false “recently
    evicted” count.

    Such a false positive wouldn’t be the end of the world. But for
    code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case.

    Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

15.1%

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