CVE-2024-36882 mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

2024-05-3015:28:52

Linux

github.com

memalloc_nofs_save

page_cache_ra_order

deadlock

ext4

folio

file-backed

task

dataxceiver

blocked

folio_lock

migrate_pages_batch

compact_zone

try_to_compact_pages

alloc_pages

readahead

async_ra

filemap_splice_read

ext4_file_splice_read

vfs_splice_read

splice_direct_to_actor

sendfile64

syscall

arm64

el0_svc

vulnerability

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

Percentile

15.5%

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

Technical Impact

partial

JSON

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

mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

See commit f2c817bed58d (“mm: use memalloc_nofs_save in readahead path”),
ensure that page_cache_ra_order() do not attempt to reclaim file-backed
pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found issue when test ext4 large
folio.

INFO: task DataXceiver for:7494 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
“echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs” disables this message.
task:DataXceiver for state:D stack:0 pid:7494 ppid:1 flags:0x00000200
Call trace:
__switch_to+0x14c/0x240
__schedule+0x82c/0xdd0
schedule+0x58/0xf0
io_schedule+0x24/0xa0
__folio_lock+0x130/0x300
migrate_pages_batch+0x378/0x918
migrate_pages+0x350/0x700
compact_zone+0x63c/0xb38
compact_zone_order+0xc0/0x118
try_to_compact_pages+0xb0/0x280
__alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x98/0x248
__alloc_pages+0x510/0x1110
alloc_pages+0x9c/0x130
folio_alloc+0x20/0x78
filemap_alloc_folio+0x8c/0x1b0
page_cache_ra_order+0x174/0x308
ondemand_readahead+0x1c8/0x2b8
page_cache_async_ra+0x68/0xb8
filemap_readahead.isra.0+0x64/0xa8
filemap_get_pages+0x3fc/0x5b0
filemap_splice_read+0xf4/0x280
ext4_file_splice_read+0x2c/0x48 [ext4]
vfs_splice_read.part.0+0xa8/0x118
splice_direct_to_actor+0xbc/0x288
do_splice_direct+0x9c/0x108
do_sendfile+0x328/0x468
__arm64_sys_sendfile64+0x8c/0x148
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x118
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc8/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x4c/0x1f8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc8
el0t_64_sync+0x188/0x190

CNA Affected

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    "product": "Linux",
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        "version": "793917d997df",
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        "versionType": "git"
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "793917d997df",
        "lessThan": "468971c3f4b8",
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        "status": "affected",
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        "lessThan": "30153e446664",
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    "programFiles": [
      "mm/readahead.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
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  {
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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
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        "version": "5.18"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
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        "versionType": "custom"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.1.91",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.1.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.6.31",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.6.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.8.10",
        "versionType": "custom",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "6.8.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "6.9",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "mm/readahead.c"
    ],
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]