CVE-2021-47214

Published: 10 April 2024

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error Currently in the is_continue case in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(), if we bail out using "goto out_release_unlock;" in the cases where idx >= size, or !huge_pte_none(), the code will detect that new_pagecache_page == false, and so call restore_reserve_on_error(). In this case I see restore_reserve_on_error() delete the reservation, and the following call to remove_inode_hugepages() will increment h->resv_hugepages causing a 100% reproducible leak. We should treat the is_continue case similar to adding a page into the pagecache and set new_pagecache_page to true, to indicate that there is no reservation to restore on the error path, and we need not call restore_reserve_on_error(). Rename new_pagecache_page to page_in_pagecache to make that clear.

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References

• https://git.kernel.org/linus/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7 (5.16-rc2)
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27e
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-47214
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian