CVE-2021-47492

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, thp: bail out early in collapsefile for writeback page Currently collapsefile does not explicitly check PGwriteback, instead, pagehasprivate and trytoreleasepage are used to filter writeback pages. This does not work for xfs...

CVE-2021-47492 mm, thp: bail out early in collapse_file for writeback page

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, thp: bail out early in collapsefile for writeback page Currently collapsefile does not explicitly check PGwriteback, instead, pagehasprivate and trytoreleasepage are used to filter writeback pages. This does not work for xfs...

CVE-2021-47492

CVE-2021-47492 concerns a Linux kernel vulnerability in the memory management (mm) subsystem, specifically the THP collapse_file path. The issue arises because collapse_file does not explicitly check PG_writeback and uses page_has_private/try_to_release_page to filter writeback pages. This is pro...

CVE-2021-47492 mm, thp: bail out early in collapse_file for writeback page

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, thp: bail out early in collapsefile for writeback page Currently collapsefile does not explicitly check PGwriteback, instead, pagehasprivate and trytoreleasepage are used to filter writeback pages. This does not work for xfs...