CVE-2024-50199
Published: Nov 8, 2024
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma I got a bad pud error and lost a 1GB HugeTLB when calling swapoff. The problem can be reproduced by the following steps: 1. Allocate an anonymous 1GB HugeTLB and some other anonymous memory. 2. Swapout the above anonymous memory. 3. run swapoff and we will get a bad pud error in kernel message: mm/pgtable-generic.c:42: bad pud 00000000743d215d(84000001400000e7) We can tell that pud_clear_bad is called by pud_none_or_clear_bad in unuse_pud_range() by ftrace. And therefore the HugeTLB pages will never be freed because we lost it from page table. We can skip HugeTLB pages for unuse_vma to fix it.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f - < ba7f982cdb37ff5a7739dec85d7325ea66fc1496affected 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f - < 417d5838ca73c6331ae2fe692fab6c25c00d9a0baffected 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f - < e41710f5a61aca9d6baaa8f53908a927dd9e7aa7affected 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f - < 6ec0fe3756f941f42f8c57156b8bdf2877b2ebafaffected 0fe6e20b9c4c53b3e97096ee73a0857f60aad43f - < bed2b9037806c62166a0ef9a559a1e7e3e1275b8+2 more versions |
Linux | Linux | affected 2.6.36unaffected 0 - < 2.6.36unaffected 5.4.285 - <= 5.4.*unaffected 5.10.228 - <= 5.10.*unaffected 5.15.169 - <= 5.15.*+4 more versions |
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