vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2021-47214: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:P)
Published
2024-04-10
Added
2024-07-30
Modified
2025-03-31

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error

Currently in the is_continue case in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(), if we
bail out using "goto out_release_unlock;" in the cases where idx >=
size, or !huge_pte_none(), the code will detect that new_pagecache_page
== false, and so call restore_reserve_on_error(). In this case I see
restore_reserve_on_error() delete the reservation, and the following
call to remove_inode_hugepages() will increment h->resv_hugepages
causing a 100% reproducible leak.

We should treat the is_continue case similar to adding a page into the
pagecache and set new_pagecache_page to true, to indicate that there is
no reservation to restore on the error path, and we need not call
restore_reserve_on_error(). Rename new_pagecache_page to
page_in_pagecache to make that clear.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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