CVE-2022-49828 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hugetlbfs: don’t delete error page from pagecache

This change is very similar to the change that was made for shmem [1] and it solves the same problem but for HugeTLBFS instead.

Currently when poison is found in a HugeTLB page the page is removed from the page cache. That means that attempting to map or read that hugepage in the future will result in a new hugepage being allocated instead of notifying the user that the page was poisoned. As [1] states this is effectively memory corruption.

The fix is to leave the page in the page cache. If the user attempts to use a poisoned HugeTLB page with a syscall the syscall will fail with EIO the same error code that shmem uses. For attempts to map the page the thread will get a BUS_MCEERR_AR SIGBUS.

[1]: commit a76054266661 (\mm: shmem: don’t truncate page if memory failure happens)

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/30571f28bb35c826219971c63bcf60d2517112ed https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8625147cafaa9ba74713d682f5185eb62cb2aedb https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ec667443b2dbc6cdbbac4073e51a17733158ec6a