CVE-2022-49554
Published: Feb 26, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration The asynchronous zspage free worker tries to lock a zspage's entire page list without defending against page migration. Since pages which haven't yet been locked can concurrently migrate off the zspage page list while lock_zspage() churns away, lock_zspage() can suffer from a few different lethal races. It can lock a page which no longer belongs to the zspage and unsafely dereference page_private(), it can unsafely dereference a torn pointer to the next page (since there's a data race), and it can observe a spurious NULL pointer to the next page and thus not lock all of the zspage's pages (since a single page migration will reconstruct the entire page list, and create_page_chain() unconditionally zeroes out each list pointer in the process). Fix the races by using migrate_read_lock() in lock_zspage() to synchronize with page migration.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c - < 3674d8a8dadd03a447dd21069d4dacfc3399b63baffected 77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c - < 645996efc2ae391246d595832aaa6f9d3cc338c7affected 77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c - < fc658c083904427abbf8f18280d517ee2668677caffected 77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c - < fae05b2314b147a78fbed1dc4c645d9a66313758affected 77ff465799c60294e248000cd22ae8171da3304c - < 3ec459c8810e658401be428d3168eacfc380bdd0+3 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 4.14unaffected 0 - < 4.14unaffected 4.14.282 - <= 4.14.*unaffected 4.19.246 - <= 4.19.*unaffected 5.4.197 - <= 5.4.*+5 more versions |
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