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CVE-2021-47256

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CVE-2021-47256

Published: May 21, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: make sure wait for page writeback in memory_failure Our syzkaller trigger the "BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_wb_list))" in clear_inode: kernel BUG at fs/inode.c:519! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: Process syz-executor.0 (pid: 249, stack limit = 0x00000000a12409d7) CPU: 1 PID: 249 Comm: syz-executor.0 Not tainted 4.19.95 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO) pc : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 lr : clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 Call trace: clear_inode+0x280/0x2a8 ext4_clear_inode+0x38/0xe8 ext4_free_inode+0x130/0xc68 ext4_evict_inode+0xb20/0xcb8 evict+0x1a8/0x3c0 iput+0x344/0x460 do_unlinkat+0x260/0x410 __arm64_sys_unlinkat+0x6c/0xc0 el0_svc_common+0xdc/0x3b0 el0_svc_handler+0xf8/0x160 el0_svc+0x10/0x218 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception A crash dump of this problem show that someone called __munlock_pagevec to clear page LRU without lock_page: do_mmap -> mmap_region -> do_munmap -> munlock_vma_pages_range -> __munlock_pagevec. As a result memory_failure will call identify_page_state without wait_on_page_writeback. And after truncate_error_page clear the mapping of this page. end_page_writeback won't call sb_clear_inode_writeback to clear inode->i_wb_list. That will trigger BUG_ON in clear_inode! Fix it by checking PageWriteback too to help determine should we skip wait_on_page_writeback.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111 - < d05267fd27a5c4f54e06daefa3035995d765ca0c
affected
0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111 - < 6d210d547adc2218ef8b5bcf23518c5f2f1fd872
affected
0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111 - < 566345aaabac853aa866f53a219c4b02a6beb527
affected
0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111 - < 9e379da727a7a031be9b877cde7b9c34a0fb8306
affected
0bc1f8b0682caa39f45ce1e0228ebf43acb46111 - < 28788dc5c70597395b6b451dae4549bbaa8e2c56

+1 more versions

Linux

Linux

affected
3.16
unaffected
0 - < 3.16
unaffected
4.14.238 - <= 4.14.*
unaffected
4.19.196 - <= 4.19.*
unaffected
5.4.128 - <= 5.4.*

+3 more versions

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