Description

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
doesn't have its local memory so it has no managed zones, the following
oops has been observed. It's 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: 000000...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-26783

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.83% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-04 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6159bd4c00594249e305bfe02304c67c506264e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdd21eed8b72f9e28d6c279f6db258e090c79080
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2774f256e7c0219e2b0a0894af1c76bdabc4f974

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