CVE-2024-42234: mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration
First published: Wed Aug 07 2024(Updated: )
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: fix crashes from deferred split racing folio migration Even on 6.10-rc6, I've been seeing elusive "Bad page state"s (often on flags when freeing, yet the flags shown are not bad: PG_locked had been set and cleared??), and VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0)s from deferred_split_scan()'s folio_put(), and a variety of other BUG and WARN symptoms implying double free by deferred split and large folio migration. 6.7 commit 9bcef5973e31 ("mm: memcg: fix split queue list crash when large folio migration") was right to fix the memcg-dependent locking broken in 85ce2c517ade ("memcontrol: only transfer the memcg data for migration"), but missed a subtlety of deferred_split_scan(): it moves folios to its own local list to work on them without split_queue_lock, during which time folio->_deferred_list is not empty, but even the "right" lock does nothing to secure the folio and the list it is on. Fortunately, deferred_split_scan() is careful to use folio_try_get(): so folio_migrate_mapping() can avoid the race by folio_undo_large_rmappable() while the old folio's reference count is temporarily frozen to 0 - adding such a freeze in the !mapping case too (originally, folio lock and unmapping and no swap cache left an anon folio unreachable, so no freezing was needed there: but the deferred split queue offers a way to reach it).
Credit: 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Linux Linux kernel | >=6.7<6.9.10 | |
| debian/linux | 5.10.223-1 5.10.226-1 6.1.115-1 6.1.112-1 6.11.7-1 6.11.9-1 |
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Reference Links
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/be9581ea8c058d81154251cb0695987098996cad
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fc7facce686b64201dbf0b9614cc1d0bfad70010
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-42234
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42234
- https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2024-42234
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-42234
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-42234
- https://git.kernel.org/linus/be9581ea8c058d81154251cb0695987098996cad
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