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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Sep 27, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 27, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 27, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 27, 2024
Last updated Sep 27, 2024

Severity

Unknown

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2024-46838

GHSA ID

GHSA-vq28-2hrg-3rf4

Source code

No known source code

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