CVE-2024-26630
Published: Mar 13, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: cachestat: fix folio read-after-free in cache walk In cachestat, we access the folio from the page cache's xarray to compute its page offset, and check for its dirty and writeback flags. However, we do not hold a reference to the folio before performing these actions, which means the folio can concurrently be released and reused as another folio/page/slab. Get around this altogether by just using xarray's existing machinery for the folio page offsets and dirty/writeback states. This changes behavior for tmpfs files to now always report zeroes in their dirty and writeback counters. This is okay as tmpfs doesn't follow conventional writeback cache behavior: its pages get "cleaned" during swapout, after which they're no longer resident etc.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < ba60fdf75e89ea762bb617be578dc47f27655117affected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < fe7e008e0ce728252e4ec652cceebcc62211657caffected cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < 3a75cb05d53f4a6823a32deb078de1366954a804 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.5unaffected 0 - < 6.5unaffected 6.6.21 - <= 6.6.*unaffected 6.7.9 - <= 6.7.*unaffected 6.8 - <= * |
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