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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49152

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/26/2025 2:00:52 AM

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Added Description

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

XArray: Fix xas_create_range() when multi-order entry present

If there is already an entry present that is of order >= XA_CHUNK_SHIFT
when we call xas_create_range(), xas_create_range() will misinterpret
that entry as a node and dereference xa_node->parent, generally leading
to a crash that looks something like this:

general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000001:
0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP KASAN
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 0 PID: 32 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 5.17.0-rc8-syzkaller-00003-g56e337f2cf13 #0
RIP: 0010:xa_parent_locked include/linux/xarray.h:1207 [inline]
RIP: 0010:xas_create_range+0x2d9/0x6e0 lib/xarray.c:725

It's deterministically reproducable once you know what the problem is,
but producing it in a live kernel requires khugepaged to hit a race.
While the problem has been present since xas_create_range() was
introduced, I'm not aware of a way to hit it before the page cache was
converted to use multi-index entries.
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/18f13edf3424b3b61814b69d5269b2e14584800c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ac49c8fd49fdf53d3cd8b77eb8ffda08d7fbe22
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29968329b926d238e3107ec071a250397555d264
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e2852eda19ee1a400cd809d7a9322680f34a262
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e3c658055c002900982513e289398a1aad4a488
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7521a97b1929042604bef6859f62fa8b4bbc077b