In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs
When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there
are two possible bugs:
1) A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the
shmem inode's xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it
will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[].
Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further.
2) When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow
entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in
progress and we're before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation,
or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the
shmem swap entry.
This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter
purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg
ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a
bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently
evicted" count.
Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for
code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case.
Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.
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History
Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:15:00 +0000
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
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CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux |
MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published: 2024-05-17T13:23:08.204Z
Updated: 2024-11-12T16:52:46.185Z
Reserved: 2024-05-17T12:19:12.340Z
Link: CVE-2024-35797
Vulnrichment
Updated: 2024-08-02T03:21:47.505Z
NVD
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2024-05-17T14:15:11.937
Modified: 2024-11-21T09:20:55.060
Link: CVE-2024-35797
Redhat