Bug 2355456 (CVE-2023-52939) - CVE-2023-52939 kernel: mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()
Summary: CVE-2023-52939 kernel: mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreig...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-52939
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-03-27 17:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-04-01 04:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-03-27 17:02:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()

As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"),
hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg
could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could
occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign
writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to
fix it.


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