CVE-2024-26783

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

mm/vmscan: fix a bug calling wakeup_kswapd() with a wrong zone index

With numa balancing on, when a numa system is running where a numa node doesnt have its local memory so it has no managed zones, the following oops has been observed. Its because wakeup_kswapd() is called with a wrong zone index, -1. Fixed it by checking the index before calling wakeup_kswapd().

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 00000000000033f3 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 2 PID: 895 Comm: masim Not tainted 6.6.0-dirty #255 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:wakeup_kswapd (./linux/mm/vmscan.c:7812) Code: (omitted) RSP: 0000:ffffc90004257d58 EFLAGS: 00010286 RAX: ffffffffffffffff RBX: ffff88883fff0480 RCX: 0000000000000003 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88883fff0480 RBP: ffffffffffffffff R08: ff0003ffffffffff R09: ffffffffffffffff R10: ffff888106c95540 R11: 0000000055555554 R12: 0000000000000003 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88883fff0940 FS: 00007fc4b8124740(0000) GS:ffff888827c00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00000000000033f3 CR3: 000000026cc08004 CR4: 0000000000770ee0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 PKRU: 55555554 Call Trace: ? __die ? page_fault_oops ? __pte_offset_map_lock ? exc_page_fault ? asm_exc_page_fault ? wakeup_kswapd migrate_misplaced_page __handle_mm_fault handle_mm_fault do_user_addr_fault exc_page_fault asm_exc_page_fault RIP: 0033:0x55b897ba0808 Code: (omitted) RSP: 002b:00007ffeefa821a0 EFLAGS: 00010287 RAX: 000055b89983acd0 RBX: 00007ffeefa823f8 RCX: 000055b89983acd0 RDX: 00007fc2f8122010 RSI: 0000000000020000 RDI: 000055b89983acd0 RBP: 00007ffeefa821a0 R08: 0000000000000037 R09: 0000000000000075 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 00007ffeefa82410 R14: 000055b897ba5dd8 R15: 00007fc4b8340000

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2774f256e7c0219e2b0a0894af1c76bdabc4f974
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd21eed8b72f9e28d6c279f6db258e090c79080
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6159bd4c00594249e305bfe02304c67c506264e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5ec1c24e71dbf144677a975d6ba91043c2193db
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2774f256e7c0219e2b0a0894af1c76bdabc4f974
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd21eed8b72f9e28d6c279f6db258e090c79080
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6159bd4c00594249e305bfe02304c67c506264e
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/08/msg00010.html