CVE-2024-40950

Technical Description

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

mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios

When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING "[ 5059.122759][ T166]

Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases

are only for anonmous folios. while mapping_large_folio_support() is only

reasonable for page cache folios.

In split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(), the folio passed to

mapping_large_folio_support() maybe anonmous folio. The folio_test_anon()

check is missing. So the split of the anonmous THP is failed. This is

also the same for shmem_mapping(). We'd better add a check for both. But

the shmem_mapping() in __split_huge_page() is not involved, as for

anonmous folios, the end parameter is set to -1, so (head[i].index >= end)

is always false. shmem_mapping() is not called.

Also add a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in mapping_large_folio_support() for anon

mapping, So we can detect the wrong use more easily.

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Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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