vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2022-49511: linux -- security update

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Feb 27, 2025
Modified
Feb 28, 2025

Description

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

fbdev: defio: fix the pagelist corruption

Easily hit the below list corruption:
==
list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffffffffc0ceb090), but
was ffffec604507edc8. (prev=ffffec604507edc8).
WARNING: CPU: 65 PID: 3959 at lib/list_debug.c:26
__list_add_valid+0x53/0x80
CPU: 65 PID: 3959 Comm: fbdev Tainted: G U
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid+0x53/0x80
Call Trace:

fb_deferred_io_mkwrite+0xea/0x150
do_page_mkwrite+0x57/0xc0
do_wp_page+0x278/0x2f0
__handle_mm_fault+0xdc2/0x1590
handle_mm_fault+0xdd/0x2c0
do_user_addr_fault+0x1d3/0x650
exc_page_fault+0x77/0x180
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30
asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30
RIP: 0033:0x7fd98fc8fad1
==

Figure out the race happens when one process is adding &page->lru into
the pagelist tail in fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(), another process is
re-initializing the same &page->lru in fb_deferred_io_fault(), which is
not protected by the lock.

This fix is to init all the page lists one time during initialization,
it not only fixes the list corruption, but also avoids INIT_LIST_HEAD()
redundantly.

V2: change "int i" to "unsigned int i" (Geert Uytterhoeven)

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
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