CVE-2024-46838 Information

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

userfaultfd: don’t BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table

Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file mappings without holding the mmap lock these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get rid of them.

We could also remove the preceding \if (unlikely(…))\ block but then we could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine but I think is not necessarily expected.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4a594acc12d5954cdc71d4450a386748bf3d136a https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db978287e908d48b209e374b00d847b2d785e0a9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4828d207dc5161dc7ddf9a4f6dcfd80c7dd7d20a