CVE-2022-49964

arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level

published June 18, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
11.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level

Though acpi_find_last_cache_level() always returned signed value and the

document states it will return any errors caused by lack of a PPTT table,

it never returned negative values before.

Commit 0c80f9e165f8 ("ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage")

however changed it by returning -ENOENT if no PPTT was found. The value

returned from acpi_find_last_cache_level() is then assigned to unsigned

fw_level.

It will result in the number of cache leaves calculated incorrectly as

a huge value which will then cause the following warning from __alloc_pages

as the order would be great than MAX_ORDER because of incorrect and huge

cache leaves value.

| WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:5407 __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314

| Modules linked in:

| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-10393-g7c2a8d3ac4c0 #73

| pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

| pc : __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314

| lr : alloc_pages+0xe8/0x318

| Call trace:

| __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314

| alloc_pages+0xe8/0x318

| kmalloc_order_trace+0x68/0x1dc

| __kmalloc+0x240/0x338

| detect_cache_attributes+0xe0/0x56c

| update_siblings_masks+0x38/0x284

| store_cpu_topology+0x78/0x84

| smp_prepare_cpus+0x48/0x134

| kernel_init_freeable+0xc4/0x14c

| kernel_init+0x2c/0x1b4

| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix the same by changing fw_level to be signed integer and return the

error from init_cache_level() early in case of error.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00215 · 11.2th percentile
Published
2025-06-18T11:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 18 JUN 11:00Z
    arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level
    cvelistv5