CVE-2024-42234

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The "mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration" commit involved race conditions during large folio handling. Issues arising from deferred splitting and migration processes where improper locking led to double frees and inconsistencies, such a...

CVE-2024-42234

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration Even on 6.10-rc6, I've been seeing elusive "Bad page state"s often on flags when freeing, yet the flags shown are not bad: PGlocked had been set and cleared??, and...

CVE-2024-42234 mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration Even on 6.10-rc6, I've been seeing elusive "Bad page state"s often on flags when freeing, yet the flags shown are not bad: PGlocked had been set and cleared??, and...