CVE-2022-49778 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for non-leaf pmd/pud

The page table check trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly when collapse hugepage:

————[ cut here ]———— kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:82! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [1] SMP Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 6 PID: 68 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3+ 750 Hardware name: linuxdummy-virt (DT) pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=–) pc : page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0 lr : page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x240/0x3f0 […] Call trace: page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0 __page_table_check_pmd_clear+0xbc/0x108 pmdp_collapse_flush+0xb0/0x160 collapse_huge_page+0xa08/0x1080 hpage_collapse_scan_pmd+0xf30/0x1590 khugepaged_scan_mm_slot.constprop.0+0x52c/0xac8 khugepaged+0x338/0x518 kthread+0x278/0x2f8 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 […]

Since pmd_user_accessible_page() doesn’t check if a pmd is leaf it decrease file_map_count for a non-leaf pmd comes from collapse_huge_page(). and so trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly.

Fix this problem by using pmd_leaf() insteal of pmd_present() in pmd_user_accessible_page(). Moreover use pud_leaf() for pud_user_accessible_page() too.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2d458046df634088611d44fd77f45465e833ef78 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5b47348fc0b18a78c96f8474cc90b7525ad1bbfe