Bug 2355470 (CVE-2023-52932) - CVE-2023-52932 kernel: mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages()
Summary: CVE-2023-52932 kernel: mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52932
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-03-27 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-05 15:16 UTC (History)
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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.


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