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CVE-2024-35872

mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios folio_is_secretmem() currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU folios, to save some cycles. However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is unreliable for this purpose. In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain(). Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio has been unmapped from the directmap. Fix it by removing that unreliable check.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Linux / Linuxaffected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 before 6564b014af92b677c1f07c44d7f5b595d589cf6e; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 before 9c2b4b657739ecda38e3b383354a29566955ac48; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 before 43fad1d0284de30159661d0badfc3cbaf7e6f8f8; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 before 201e4aaf405dfd1308da54448654053004c579b5; affected 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 before 65291dcfcf8936e1b23cfd7718fdfde7cfaf7706
Linux / Linuxaffected 5.14; unaffected 0 before 5.14; unaffected 5.15.154 through 5.15.*; unaffected 6.1.85 through 6.1.*; unaffected 6.6.26 through 6.6.*; unaffected 6.8.5 through 6.8.*; unaffected 6.9 through *

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