In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/hwpoison: clear MFCOUNTINCREASED before retrying getanypage()
Hulk Robot reported a panic in putpagetestzero() when testing madvise() with MADVSOFTOFFLINE. The BUG() is triggered when retrying getanypage(). This is because we keep MFCOUNTINCREASED flag in second try but the refcnt is not increased.
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0)
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kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:737!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 5 PID: 2135 Comm: sshd Tainted: G B 5.16.0-rc6-dirty #373
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.13.0-1ubuntu1.1 04/01/2014
RIP: release_pages+0x53f/0x840
Call Trace:
free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x64/0x80
tlb_flush_mmu+0x6f/0x220
unmap_page_range+0xe6c/0x12c0
unmap_single_vma+0x90/0x170
unmap_vmas+0xc4/0x180
exit_mmap+0xde/0x3a0
mmput+0xa3/0x250
do_exit+0x564/0x1470
do_group_exit+0x3b/0x100
__do_sys_exit_group+0x13/0x20
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x16/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
Modules linked in:
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RIP: 0010:release_pages+0x53f/0x840