Description (CNA)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: filemap: retain mapped dropbehind folios Fault-around can map ready dropbehind folios without going through the normal page-cache lookup that clears dropbehind. A mapping represents a competing cached user, so retain the folio instead of forcibly unmapping it when writeback completes. For a mapped folio, folio_unmap_invalidate() can call unmap_mapping_folio(), which takes i_mmap_rwsem and may sleep. Retaining mapped folios avoids this path when folio_end_dropbehind() runs in non-preemptible task context. Tal was able to trigger a sleeping-in-atomic warning due to this [1]. Unmapped dropbehind folios continue through the existing invalidation path.
Affected (CNA)
| Vendor / product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Linux / Linux | affected fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 before 2897601dffe576fcd87a4259102f41f7fb0cbfc8; affected fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 before 77c0fade37c80e8aa16ac048a9828249055e3f66; affected fb7d3bc4149395c1ae99029c852eab6c28fc3c88 before 848d2ce2fce15fbdc083fbf9691bfa72911033c4 |
| Linux / Linux | affected 6.14; unaffected 0 before 6.14; unaffected 6.18.54 through 6.18.*; unaffected 7.2.8 through 7.2.*; unaffected 7.3 through * |
CWE
No CWE identifiers supplied.