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Change History

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

mm/hugetlb: fix missing hugetlb_lock for resv uncharge

There is a recent report on UFFDIO_COPY over hugetlb:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000ee06de0616177560@google.com/

350:	lockdep_assert_held(&hugetlb_lock);

Should be an issue in hugetlb but triggered in an userfault context, where
it goes into the unlikely path where two threads modifying the resv map
together.  Mike has a fix in that path for resv uncharge but 

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4c806333efea1000a2a9620926f560ad2e1ca7cc [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/538faabf31e9c53d8c870d114846fda958a0de10 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b76b46902c2d0395488c8412e1116c2486cdfcb2 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f6c5d21db16a0910152ec8aa9d5a7aed72694505 [No types assigned]