Bug 2315190 (CVE-2024-46838) - CVE-2024-46838 kernel: userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table
Summary: CVE-2024-46838 kernel: userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks ou...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2024-46838
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Depends On: 2315344
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2024-09-27 13:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2024-09-27 18:07 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2024-09-27 13:22:19 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table

Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file
mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get
rid of them.

We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then we
could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file
mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine
but I think is not necessarily expected.


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