Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-48042.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-48042
Upstream
Published
2024-08-17T09:15:11Z
Modified
2026-04-01T05:17:07.570166Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
CVE-2024-42316 affecting package kernel for versions less than 6.6.47.1-1
Details

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

mm/mglru: fix div-by-zero in vmpressurecalclevel()

evictfolios() uses a second pass to reclaim folios that have gone through page writeback and become clean before it finishes the first pass, since foliorotate_reclaimable() cannot handle those folios due to the isolation.

The second pass tries to avoid potential double counting by deducting scancontrol->nrscanned. However, this can result in underflow of nrscanned, under a condition where shrinkfoliolist() does not increment nrscanned, i.e., when folio_trylock() fails.

The underflow can cause the divisor, i.e., scale=scanned+reclaimed in vmpressurecalclevel(), to become zero, resulting in the following crash:

[exception RIP: vmpressureworkfn+101] processonework at ffffffffa3313f2b

Since scancontrol->nrscanned has no established semantics, the potential double counting has minimal risks. Therefore, fix the problem by not deducting scancontrol->nrscanned in evict_folios().

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / kernel

Package

Name
kernel
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.6.47.1-1

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-48042.json"