Bug 2355488 (CVE-2023-52940) - CVE-2023-52940 kernel: mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration
Summary: CVE-2023-52940 kernel: mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52940
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-03-27 17:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-27 22:12 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:03:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: multi-gen LRU: fix crash during cgroup migration

lru_gen_migrate_mm() assumes lru_gen_add_mm() runs prior to itself.  This
isn't true for the following scenario:

    CPU 1                         CPU 2

  clone()
    cgroup_can_fork()
                                cgroup_procs_write()
    cgroup_post_fork()
                                  task_lock()
                                  lru_gen_migrate_mm()
                                  task_unlock()
    task_lock()
    lru_gen_add_mm()
    task_unlock()

And when the above happens, kernel crashes because of linked list
corruption (mm_struct->lru_gen.list).


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