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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-40949

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 7/12/2024 9:15:17 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

mm: shmem: fix getting incorrect lruvec when replacing a shmem folio

When testing shmem swapin, I encountered the warning below on my machine. 
The reason is that replacing an old shmem folio with a new one causes
mem_cgroup_migrate() to clear the old folio's memcg data.  As a result,
the old folio cannot get the correct memcg's lruvec needed to remove
itself from the LRU list when it is being freed.  This could lead to
possible serious problems, such as LRU list crashes due to holding the
wrong LRU lock, and incorrect LRU statistics.

To fix this issue, we can fallback to use the mem_cgroup_replace_folio()
to replace the old shmem folio.

[ 5241.100311] page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x5d9960
[ 5241.100317] head: order:4 mapcount:0 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:0 pincount:0
[ 5241.100319] flags: 0x17fffe0000040068(uptodate|lru|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x3ffff)
[ 5241.100323] raw: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100325] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100326] head: 17fffe0000040068 fffffdffd6687948 fffffdffd69ae008 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100327] head: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100328] head: 17fffe0000000204 fffffdffd6665801 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100329] head: 0000000a00000010 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
[ 5241.100330] page dumped because: VM_WARN_ON_ONCE_FOLIO(!memcg && !mem_cgroup_disabled())
[ 5241.100338] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 5241.100339] WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 78402 at include/linux/memcontrol.h:775 folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
[...]
[ 5241.100374] pc : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
[ 5241.100375] lr : folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x138/0x150
[ 5241.100376] sp : ffff80008b38b930
[...]
[ 5241.100398] Call trace:
[ 5241.100399]  folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x140/0x150
[ 5241.100401]  __page_cache_release+0x90/0x300
[ 5241.100404]  __folio_put+0x50/0x108
[ 5241.100406]  shmem_replace_folio+0x1b4/0x240
[ 5241.100409]  shmem_swapin_folio+0x314/0x528
[ 5241.100411]  shmem_get_folio_gfp+0x3b4/0x930
[ 5241.100412]  shmem_fault+0x74/0x160
[ 5241.100414]  __do_fault+0x40/0x218
[ 5241.100417]  do_shared_fault+0x34/0x1b0
[ 5241.100419]  do_fault+0x40/0x168
[ 5241.100420]  handle_pte_fault+0x80/0x228
[ 5241.100422]  __handle_mm_fault+0x1c4/0x440
[ 5241.100424]  handle_mm_fault+0x60/0x1f0
[ 5241.100426]  do_page_fault+0x120/0x488
[ 5241.100429]  do_translation_fault+0x4c/0x68
[ 5241.100431]  do_mem_abort+0x48/0xa0
[ 5241.100434]  el0_da+0x38/0xc0
[ 5241.100436]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0x68/0xc0
[ 5241.100437]  el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x150
[ 5241.100439] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com: remove less helpful comments, per Matthew]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ccad3fe1375b468ebca3227b6b729f3eaf9d8046.1718423197.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8c6c3719ebb7913f8a665d11816d2e38b0eadbab [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9094b4a1c76cfe84b906cc152bab34d4ba26fa5c [No types assigned]