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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2024-42316

Change History

New CVE Received by NIST 8/17/2024 5:15:11 AM

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Added Description

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

mm/mglru: fix div-by-zero in vmpressure_calc_level()

evict_folios() uses a second pass to reclaim folios that have gone through
page writeback and become clean before it finishes the first pass, since
folio_rotate_reclaimable() cannot handle those folios due to the
isolation.

The second pass tries to avoid potential double counting by deducting
scan_control->nr_scanned.  However, this can result in underflow of
nr_scanned, under a condition where shrink_folio_list() does not increment
nr_scanned, i.e., when folio_trylock() fails.

The underflow can cause the divisor, i.e., scale=scanned+reclaimed in
vmpressure_calc_level(), to become zero, resulting in the following crash:

  [exception RIP: vmpressure_work_fn+101]
  process_one_work at ffffffffa3313f2b

Since scan_control->nr_scanned has no established semantics, the potential
double counting has minimal risks.  Therefore, fix the problem by not
deducting scan_control->nr_scanned in evict_folios().
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8b671fe1a879923ecfb72dda6caf01460dd885ef [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8de7bf77f21068a5f602bb1e59adbc5ab533509d [No types assigned]
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a39e38be632f0e1c908d70d1c9cd071c03faf895 [No types assigned]
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kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6510f234c7d117790397f9bb150816b0a954a04 [No types assigned]