Bug 2355470 (CVE-2023-52932)

Summary: CVE-2023-52932 kernel: mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages()
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:03:15 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages()

The softlockup still occurs in get_swap_pages() under memory pressure.  64
CPU cores, 64GB memory, and 28 zram devices, the disksize of each zram
device is 50MB with same priority as si.  Use the stress-ng tool to
increase memory pressure, causing the system to oom frequently.

The plist_for_each_entry_safe() loops in get_swap_pages() could reach tens
of thousands of times to find available space (extreme case:
cond_resched() is not called in scan_swap_map_slots()).  Let's add
cond_resched() into get_swap_pages() when failed to find available space
to avoid softlockup.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-03-27 23:25:37 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025032720-CVE-2023-52932-434b@gregkh/T