CVE-2022-49778

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-49778
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-49778.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-49778
Downstream
Published
2025-05-01T14:09:13Z
Modified
2025-10-16T00:21:00.055731Z
Summary
arm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for non-leaf pmd/pud
Details

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

arm64/mm: fix incorrect filemapcount for non-leaf pmd/pud

The page table check trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly when collapse hugepage:

------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/pagetablecheck.c:82! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP Dumping ftrace buffer: (ftrace buffer empty) Modules linked in: CPU: 6 PID: 68 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3+ #750 Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : pagetablecheckclear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0 lr : pagetablecheckclear.isra.0+0x240/0x3f0 [...] Call trace: pagetablecheckclear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0 _pagetablecheckpmdclear+0xbc/0x108 pmdpcollapseflush+0xb0/0x160 collapsehugepage+0xa08/0x1080 hpagecollapsescanpmd+0xf30/0x1590 khugepagedscanmmslot.constprop.0+0x52c/0xac8 khugepaged+0x338/0x518 kthread+0x278/0x2f8 retfromfork+0x10/0x20 [...]

Since pmduseraccessiblepage() doesn't check if a pmd is leaf, it decrease filemapcount for a non-leaf pmd comes from collapsehugepage(). and so trigger BUGON() unexpectedly.

Fix this problem by using pmdleaf() insteal of pmdpresent() in pmduseraccessiblepage(). Moreover, use pudleaf() for puduseraccessible_page() too.

References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
42b2547137f5c974bb1bfd657c869fe96b96d86f
Fixed
2d458046df634088611d44fd77f45465e833ef78
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
42b2547137f5c974bb1bfd657c869fe96b96d86f
Fixed
5b47348fc0b18a78c96f8474cc90b7525ad1bbfe

Affected versions

v5.*

v5.18
v5.18-rc5
v5.18-rc6
v5.18-rc7
v5.19
v5.19-rc1
v5.19-rc2
v5.19-rc3
v5.19-rc4
v5.19-rc5
v5.19-rc6
v5.19-rc7
v5.19-rc8

v6.*

v6.0
v6.0-rc1
v6.0-rc2
v6.0-rc3
v6.0-rc4
v6.0-rc5
v6.0-rc6
v6.0-rc7
v6.0.1
v6.0.2
v6.0.3
v6.0.4
v6.0.5
v6.0.6
v6.0.7
v6.0.8
v6.0.9
v6.1-rc1
v6.1-rc2
v6.1-rc3
v6.1-rc4

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.0.10