CVE-2024-46838

userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table

published September 27, 2024

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
13.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table

Since khugepaged was changed to allow retracting page tables in file

mappings without holding the mmap lock, these BUG_ON()s are wrong - get

rid of them.

We could also remove the preceding "if (unlikely(...))" block, but then we

could reach pte_offset_map_lock() with transhuge pages not just for file

mappings but also for anonymous mappings - which would probably be fine

but I think is not necessarily expected.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00234 · 13.6th percentile
Published
2024-09-27T12:39Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 SEP 12:39Z
    userfaultfd: don't BUG_ON() if khugepaged yanks our page table
    cvelistv5