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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2022-49828

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/01/2025 11:16:06 AM

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Added Description

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

hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache

This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1], and
it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead.

Currently, when poison is found in a HugeTLB page, the page is removed
from the page cache.  That means that attempting to map or read that
hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated
instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned.  As [1] states,
this is effectively memory corruption.

The fix is to leave the page in the page cache.  If the user attempts to
use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall, the syscall will fail with
EIO, the same error code that shmem uses.  For attempts to map the page,
the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS.

[1]: commit a76054266661 ("mm: shmem: don't truncate page if memory failure happens")
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a