CVE-2024-49873

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: fix filemapgetfolioscontig THP panic Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes". Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfdpinfolios with hugetlb pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet...

CVE-2024-49873 mm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: fix filemapgetfolioscontig THP panic Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes". Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfdpinfolios with hugetlb pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet...

CVE-2024-49873 mm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: fix filemapgetfolioscontig THP panic Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes". Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfdpinfolios with hugetlb pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet...

CVE-2024-49873 mm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/filemap: fix filemapgetfolioscontig THP panic Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes". Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfdpinfolios with hugetlb pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet...

CVE-2024-49873

CVE-2024-49873 : In the Linux kernel, memfd_pin_folios with THP-backed memory may panic or cause a NULL-pointer dereference when the requested start offset is not aligned to a huge page boundary. The issue arises because filemap_get_folios_contig could load a folio that is a sibling and then fail...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as...

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40950

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

CVE-2024-40950

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

CVE-2024-40950 mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

CVE-2024-40950 mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

CVE-2024-40950

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugememory: fix misused mappinglargefoliosupport for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING " 5059.122759 T166 Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmo...

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

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-2021-47491

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VMEXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments...

UBUNTU-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-2021-47491

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VMEXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments...

CVE-2021-47491 mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VMEXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments...

CVE-2021-47491

CVE-2021-47491 concerns the Linux kernel vulnerability in mm: khugepaged, where read-only THP for filesystems could collapse THP for readonly/executable mappings of non-regular files (e.g., block devices). The root cause is that THP collapse was allowed for such files due to an insufficient vm_fi...

CVE-2021-47491 mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read-only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VMEXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments...

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...