Description

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

mm: page_alloc: move mlocked flag clearance into free_pages_prepare()

Syzbot reported a bad page state problem caused by a page being freed
using free_page() still having a mlocked flag at free_pages_prepare()
stage:

BUG: Bad page state in process syz.5.504 pfn:61f45
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x61f45
flags: 0xfff00000080204(referenced|workingset|mlocked|node=0|zone=1|lastcpupid=0x7ff)
raw: 00fff00000080204 0000000000000000 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set
page_owner tracks the page as allocated
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0x400dc0(GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT|__GFP_ZERO), pid 8443, tgid 8442 (syz.5.504), ts 201884660643, free_ts 201499827394
set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline]
post_alloc_hook+0x1f3/0x230 mm/page_alloc.c:1537
prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1545 [inline]
get_page_from_freelist+0x303f/0x3190 mm/page_alloc.c:3457
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x292/0x710 mm/page_alloc.c:4733
alloc_pages_mpol_noprof+0x3e8/0x680 mm/mempolicy.c:2265
kvm_coalesced_mmio_init+0x1f/0xf0 virt/kvm/coalesced_mmio.c:99
kvm_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:1235 [inline]
kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vm virt/kvm/kvm_main.c:5488 [inline]
kvm_dev_ioctl+0x12dc/0x2240 virt/kvm/kvm_main...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-53105

CVSS Base Severity: LOW

CVSS Base Score: 0.0

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 17.81% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7873d11911cd1d21e25c354eb130d8c3b5cb3ca5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/66edc3a5894c74f8887c8af23b97593a0dd0df4d

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