CVE-2024-42293

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-42293
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-42293.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-42293
Downstream
Published
2024-08-17T09:09:02.303Z
Modified
2025-11-20T05:21:12.704707Z
Summary
arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding
Details

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

arm64: mm: Fix lockless walks with static and dynamic page-table folding

Lina reports random oopsen originating from the fast GUP code when 16K pages are used with 4-level page-tables, the fourth level being folded at runtime due to lack of LPA2.

In this configuration, the generic implementation of p4doffsetlockless() will return a 'p4dt *' corresponding to the 'pgdt' allocated on the stack of the caller, gupfastpgdrange(). This is normally fine, but when the fourth level of page-table is folded at runtime, pudoffsetlockless() will offset from the address of the 'p4dt' to calculate the address of the PUD in the same page-table page. This results in a stray stack read when the 'p4d_t' has been allocated on the stack and can send the walker into the weeds.

Fix the problem by providing our own definition of p4doffsetlockless() when CONFIGPGTABLELEVELS <= 4 which returns the real page-table pointer rather than the address of the local stack variable.

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
0dd4f60a2c76938c2625f6c630c225699d97608b
Fixed
78672d49d3eebbcda3589f4d6e589caf357c5a59
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
0dd4f60a2c76938c2625f6c630c225699d97608b
Fixed
36639013b3462c06ff8e3400a427f775b4fc97f5

Affected versions

v6.*

v6.10
v6.10-rc1
v6.10-rc2
v6.10-rc3
v6.10-rc4
v6.10-rc5
v6.10-rc6
v6.10-rc7
v6.10.1
v6.10.2
v6.8
v6.8-rc4
v6.8-rc5
v6.8-rc6
v6.8-rc7
v6.9
v6.9-rc1
v6.9-rc2
v6.9-rc3
v6.9-rc4
v6.9-rc5
v6.9-rc6
v6.9-rc7

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.9.0
Fixed
6.10.3