CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-39477
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2024-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-08-04
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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-770
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/hugetlb: do not call vma_add_reservation upon ENOMEM
sysbot reported a splat [1] on __unmap_hugepage_range(). This is because
vma_needs_reservation() can return -ENOMEM if
allocate_file_region_entries() fails to allocate the file_region struct
for the reservation.
Check for that and do not call vma_add_reservation() if that is the case,
otherwise region_abort() and region_del() will see that we do not have any
file_regions.
If we detect that vma_needs_reservation() returned -ENOMEM, we clear the
hugetlb_restore_reserve flag as if this reservation was still consumed, so
free_huge_folio() will not increment the resv count.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/T/#ma5983bc1ab18a54910da83416b3f89f3c7ee43aa
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.9 < 6.9.5)
• linux linux kernel 6.10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8daf9c702ee7f825f0de8600abff764acfedea13 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa998f9dcb34c28448f86e8f5490f20d5eb0eac7 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8daf9c702ee7f825f0de8600abff764acfedea13 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/aa998f9dcb34c28448f86e8f5490f20d5eb0eac7 Mailing List, Patch