CVE-2024-40948

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

mm/page_table_check: fix crash on ZONE_DEVICE

Not all pages may apply to pgtable check. One example is ZONE_DEVICE pages: they map PFNs directly, and they dont allocate page_ext at all even if theres struct page around. One may reference devm_memremap_pages().

When both ZONE_DEVICE and page-table-check enabled, then try to map some dax memories, one can trigger kernel bug constantly now when the kernel was trying to inject some pfn maps on the dax device:

kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:55!

While its pretty legal to use set_pxx_at() for ZONE_DEVICE pages for page fault resolutions, skip all the checks if page_ext doesnt even exist in pgtable checker, which applies to ZONE_DEVICE but maybe more.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/51897f99351fff7b57f4f141940fa93b4e90fd2b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84d3549d54f5ff9fa3281257be3019386f51d1a0
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8bb592c2eca8fd2bc06db7d80b38da18da4a2f43
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dec2382247860d2134c8d41e103e26460c099629