Bug 2373407 (CVE-2022-49994) - CVE-2022-49994 kernel: bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem
Summary: CVE-2022-49994 kernel: bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-49994
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-20 12:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:01:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bootmem: remove the vmemmap pages from kmemleak in put_page_bootmem

The vmemmap pages is marked by kmemleak when allocated from memblock. 
Remove it from kmemleak when freeing the page.  Otherwise, when we reuse
the page, kmemleak may report such an error and then stop working.

 kmemleak: Cannot insert 0xffff98fb6eab3d40 into the object search tree (overlaps existing)
 kmemleak: Kernel memory leak detector disabled
 kmemleak: Object 0xffff98fb6be00000 (size 335544320):
 kmemleak:   comm "swapper", pid 0, jiffies 4294892296
 kmemleak:   min_count = 0
 kmemleak:   count = 0
 kmemleak:   flags = 0x1
 kmemleak:   checksum = 0
 kmemleak:   backtrace:

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 12:14:24 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061825-CVE-2022-49994-e212@gregkh/T


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