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GHSA-6CV4-FCR9-FCMW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-01 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-10 21:30

Details

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")

Severity ?

5.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2022-49828 (GCVE-0-2022-49828)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 14:09 – Updated: 2025-05-04 08:46

Summary

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")

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30571f28bb35c8262…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec667443b2dbc6cdb…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8625147cafaa9ba74…

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Linux

Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a (git)
Affected: 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 , < 8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb (git)

Linux

Unaffected: 5.15.80 , ≤ 5.15.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.0.10 , ≤ 6.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-6CV4-FCR9-FCMW

CVE-2022-49828 (GCVE-0-2022-49828)

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