Description (CNA)
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")
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f before 30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed; affected 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f before ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a; affected 78bb920344b8a6f04b79a7c254041723b931c94f before 8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb |
| Linux / Linux | affected 4.13; unaffected 0 before 4.13; unaffected 5.15.80 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.0.10 through 6.0.*; unaffected 6.1 through * |
CWE
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