Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split nouveau_dmem_folio_free() drops chunk->callocated once per freed folio, while a large (compound) device-private folio is only counted once when it is allocated. When such a folio is split, the mm core invokes ->folio_split() (nouveau_dmem_folio_split()) once for each new sub-folio, but the hook only fixes up the sub-folio metadata and leaves chunk->callocated unchanged. Each resulting sub-folio is later freed separately, so after a split the single allocation (+1) is met by N frees (-N), leaving chunk->callocated short by N-1. On the first split/free cycle it underflows: WARN_ON(!chunk->callocated) fires, the unsigned counter wraps and never returns to zero, so the chunk can no longer be reclaimed (nouveau_dmem_fini() also warns on the leaked count). Account for the new sub-folio in the split hook, under the same lock as nouveau_dmem_folio_free(), so the count stays balanced.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected c3228747107705d47c7e9a03598a434a0380cb73 before 0163b92946d0a7c816f619c57a4d9867954dd106; affected c3228747107705d47c7e9a03598a434a0380cb73 before c2256c044a1df39c8aad4dd2d6f709b2533e2d7a |
| Linux / Linux | affected 6.19; unaffected 0 before 6.19; unaffected 7.2.5 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through * |
CWE
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