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 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 affects the Linux kernel: mm, thp collapse_file may bail out early for writeback pages when blocksize ≥ pagesize for XFS, because the code filters writeback pages via page_has_private/try_to_release_page instead of explicitly checking PG_writeback. This can cause end_page_writeback...