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HistoryAug 07, 2024 - 3:14 p.m.

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

2024-08-0715:14:24
Linux
github.com
2
linux kernel
vulnerability
folio migration
crashes
deferred split.

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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: PG_locked had been
set and cleared??), and VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0)s from
deferred_split_scan()'s folio_put(), and a variety of other BUG and WARN
symptoms implying double free by deferred split and large folio migration.

6.7 commit 9bcef5973e31 (“mm: memcg: fix split queue list crash when large
folio migration”) was right to fix the memcg-dependent locking broken in
85ce2c517ade (“memcontrol: only transfer the memcg data for migration”),
but missed a subtlety of deferred_split_scan(): it moves folios to its own
local list to work on them without split_queue_lock, during which time
folio->_deferred_list is not empty, but even the “right” lock does nothing
to secure the folio and the list it is on.

Fortunately, deferred_split_scan() is careful to use folio_try_get(): so
folio_migrate_mapping() can avoid the race by folio_undo_large_rmappable()
while the old folio’s reference count is temporarily frozen to 0 - adding
such a freeze in the !mapping case too (originally, folio lock and
unmapping and no swap cache left an anon folio unreachable, so no freezing
was needed there: but the deferred split queue offers a way to reach it).

AI Score

6.9

Confidence

High

SSVC

Exploitation

none

Automatable

no

Technical Impact

partial

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