Medium · published September 2, 2022
An issue was discovered in include/asm-generic/tlb.h in the Linux kernel before 5.19. Because of a race condition (unmap_mapping_range versus munmap), a device driver can free a page while it still has stale TLB entries. This only occurs in situations with VM_PFNMAP VMAs.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| linux/linux_kernel | < 5.19 | 5.19 |
| debian/debian_linux | all versions | — |
| debian/debian_linux | all versions | — |
| debian/debian_linux | all versions | — |