CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-47214
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2024-04-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error
Currently in the is_continue case in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(), if we
bail out using "goto out_release_unlock;" in the cases where idx >=
size, or !huge_pte_none(), the code will detect that new_pagecache_page
== false, and so call restore_reserve_on_error(). In this case I see
restore_reserve_on_error() delete the reservation, and the following
call to remove_inode_hugepages() will increment h->resv_hugepages
causing a 100% reproducible leak.
We should treat the is_continue case similar to adding a page into the
pagecache and set new_pagecache_page to true, to indicate that there is
no reservation to restore on the error path, and we need not call
restore_reserve_on_error(). Rename new_pagecache_page to
page_in_pagecache to make that clear.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.14 < 5.15.5)
• linux linux kernel 5.13.13
• linux linux kernel 5.16
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27e Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7 Patch