Bug 2300364 (CVE-2024-41021)
| Summary: | CVE-2024-41021 kernel: s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception() | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | kernel 6.9.12, kernel 6.10.2, kernel 6.11-rc1 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in the function do_fault_error() where it is possible for a VM_FAULT_HWPOISON memory fault to appear in combination with PTE_MARKER_POISONED, even though the s390 architecture does not support HWPOISON. This can result in improper memory management and lead to crashes or kernel panics.
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 2300897 | ||
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Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 2300897] |
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception() There is no support for HWPOISON, MEMORY_FAILURE, or ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC on s390. Therefore we do not expect to see VM_FAULT_HWPOISON in do_exception(). However, since commit af19487f00f3 ("mm: make PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR more general"), it is possible to see VM_FAULT_HWPOISON in combination with PTE_MARKER_POISONED, even on architectures that do not support HWPOISON otherwise. In this case, we will end up on the BUG() in do_exception(). Fix this by treating VM_FAULT_HWPOISON the same as VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, similar to x86 when MEMORY_FAILURE is not configured. Also print unexpected fault flags, for easier debugging. Note that VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE is not expected, because s390 cannot support swap entries on other levels than PTE level.