Bug 2363504 (CVE-2022-49828) - CVE-2022-49828 kernel: hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache
Summary: CVE-2022-49828 kernel: hugetlbfs: don't delete error page from pagecache
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49828
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-05-01 15:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-05-02 04:26 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-01 15:07:19 UTC
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")

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-05-02 04:15:48 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025050136-CVE-2022-49828-7143@gregkh/T


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