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CVE-2024-35797

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CVE-2024-35797

Published: May 17, 2024

Modified: May 11, 2026

PUBLISHED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs: 1) A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the shmem inode's xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[]. Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further. 2) When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in progress and we're before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation, or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the shmem swap entry. This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently evicted" count. Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case. Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.

VendorProductVersions

Linux

Linux

affected
cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < b79f9e1ff27c994a4c452235ba09e672ec698e23
affected
cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < d962f6c583458037dc7e529659b2b02b9dd3d94b
affected
cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < 24a0e73d544439bb9329fbbafac44299e548a677
affected
cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a - < d5d39c707a4cf0bcc84680178677b97aa2cb2627

Linux

Linux

affected
6.5
unaffected
0 - < 6.5
unaffected
6.6.24 - <= 6.6.*
unaffected
6.7.12 - <= 6.7.*
unaffected
6.8.3 - <= 6.8.*

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