High · published August 15, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm-log: fix a bitset_size overflow on 32bit machines
Commit c20e36b7631d ("dm log: fix out-of-bounds write due to
region_count overflow") made sure that region_count could fit in an
unsigned int. But the bitmap memory isn't allocated based on
region_count. It uses bitset_size (a size_t variable). The first step of
calculating bitset_size is to set it to region_count, rounded up to a
multiple of BITS_PER_LONG. If region_size is less than BITS_PER_LONG
smaller than UINT_MAX, it will get rounded up to 2^32. On a 32bit
architecture, this will make bitset_size wrap around to 0 and fail,
despite region_count being valid.
Since bitset_size gets divided by 8, it can hold any valid region_count.
It just needs a special case to handle the rollover. If it is 0, the
value rolled over, and bitset size should be set to the number of bytes
needed to hold 2^32 bits.