Bug 2300364 (CVE-2024-41021) - CVE-2024-41021 kernel: s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception()
Summary: CVE-2024-41021 kernel: s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-41021
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2300897
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-07-29 14:20 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-24 13:28 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version: kernel 6.9.12, kernel 6.10.2, kernel 6.11-rc1
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-07-29 14:20:51 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

s390/mm: Fix VM_FAULT_HWPOISON handling in do_exception()

There is no support for HWPOISON, MEMORY_FAILURE, or ARCH_HAS_COPY_MC on
s390. Therefore we do not expect to see VM_FAULT_HWPOISON in
do_exception().

However, since commit af19487f00f3 ("mm: make PTE_MARKER_SWAPIN_ERROR more
general"), it is possible to see VM_FAULT_HWPOISON in combination with
PTE_MARKER_POISONED, even on architectures that do not support HWPOISON
otherwise. In this case, we will end up on the BUG() in do_exception().

Fix this by treating VM_FAULT_HWPOISON the same as VM_FAULT_SIGBUS, similar
to x86 when MEMORY_FAILURE is not configured. Also print unexpected fault
flags, for easier debugging.

Note that VM_FAULT_HWPOISON_LARGE is not expected, because s390 cannot
support swap entries on other levels than PTE level.

Comment 1 Mauro Matteo Cascella 2024-07-29 19:15:43 UTC
Created kernel tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2300897]


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