In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/hugetlb: fix PTE marker handling in hugetlb_change_protection()
Patch series "mm/hugetlb: uffd-wp fixes for hugetlb_change_protection()".
Playing with virtio-mem and background snapshots (using uffd-wp) on
hugetlb in QEMU, I managed to trigger a VM_BUG_ON(). Looking into the
details, hugetlb_change_protection() seems to not handle uffd-wp correctly
in all cases.
Patch #1 fixes my test case. I don't have reproducers for patch #2, as it
requires running into migration entries.
I did not yet check in detail yet if !hugetlb code requires similar care.
This patch (of 2):
There are two problematic cases when stumbling over a PTE marker in
hugetlb_change_protection():
(1) We protect an uffd-wp PTE marker a second time using uffd-wp: we will
end up in the "!huge_pte_none(pte)" case and mess up the PTE marker.
(2) We unprotect a uffd-wp PTE marker: we will similarly end up in the
"!huge_pte_none(pte)" case even though we cleared the PTE, because
the "pte" variable is stale. We'll mess up the PTE marker.
For example, if we later stumble over such a "wrongly modified" PTE marker,
we'll treat it like a present PTE that maps some garbage page.
This can, for example, be triggered by mapping a memfd backed by huge
pages, registering uffd-wp, uffd-wp'ing an unmapped page and (a)
uffd-wp'ing it a second time; or (b) uffd-unprotecting it; or (c)
unregistering uffd-wp. Then, ff we trigger fallocate(FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE)
on that file range, we will run into a VM_BUG_ON:
[ 195.039560] page:00000000ba1f2987 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x0
[ 195.039565] flags: 0x7ffffc0001000(reserved|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
[ 195.039568] raw: 0007ffffc0001000 ffffe742c0000008 ffffe742c0000008 0000000000000000
[ 195.039569] raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff 0000000000000000
[ 195.039569] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(compound && !PageHead(page))
[ 195.039573] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 195.039574] kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1346!
[ 195.039579] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[ 195.039581] CPU: 7 PID: 4777 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 6.0.12-200.fc36.x86_64 #1
[ 195.039583] Hardware name: LENOVO 20WNS1F81N/20WNS1F81N, BIOS N35ET50W (1.50 ) 09/15/2022
[ 195.039584] RIP: 0010:page_remove_rmap+0x45b/0x550
[ 195.039588] Code: [...]
[ 195.039589] RSP: 0018:ffffbc03c3633ba8 EFLAGS: 00010292
[ 195.039591] RAX: 0000000000000040 RBX: ffffe742c0000000 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 195.039592] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffffff8e7aac1a RDI: 00000000ffffffff
[ 195.039592] RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffbc03c3633a08
[ 195.039593] R10: 0000000000000003 R11: ffffffff8f146328 R12: ffff9b04c42754b0
[ 195.039594] R13: ffffffff8fcc6328 R14: ffffbc03c3633c80 R15: ffff9b0484ab9100
[ 195.039595] FS: 00007fc7aaf68640(0000) GS:ffff9b0bbf7c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 195.039596] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 195.039597] CR2: 000055d402c49110 CR3: 0000000159392003 CR4: 0000000000772ee0
[ 195.039598] PKRU: 55555554
[ 195.039599] Call Trace:
[ 195.039600] <TASK>
[ 195.039602] __unmap_hugepage_range+0x33b/0x7d0
[ 195.039605] unmap_hugepage_range+0x55/0x70
[ 195.039608] hugetlb_vmdelete_list+0x77/0xa0
[ 195.039611] hugetlbfs_fallocate+0x410/0x550
[ 195.039612] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x23/0x40
[ 195.039616] vfs_fallocate+0x12e/0x360
[ 195.039618] __x64_sys_fallocate+0x40/0x70
[ 195.039620] do_syscall_64+0x58/0x80
[ 195.039623] ? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40
[ 195.039624] ? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80
[ 195.039626] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
[ 195.039628] RIP: 0033:0x7fc7b590651f
[ 195.039653] Code: [...]
[ 195.039654] RSP: 002b:00007fc7aaf66e70 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000011d
[ 195.039655] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000558ef4b7f370 RCX: 00007fc7b590651f
---truncated---
References
Configurations
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History
29 Oct 2025, 17:16
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Summary |
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| CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
| First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.2:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e678153f5be7e6c8d28835f5a678618da4b7a9c - Patch | |
| References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6062c992e912df1eedad52cf64efb3d48e8d35c5 - Patch | |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-noinfo |
27 Mar 2025, 17:15
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Information
Published : 2025-03-27 17:15
Updated : 2025-10-29 17:16
NVD link : CVE-2022-49760
Mitre link : CVE-2022-49760
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-49760
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE