CVE-2021-47214

hugetlb, userfaultfd: fix reservation restore on userfaultfd error

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Apr 10, 2024
Updated
May 23, 2026
Reserved
Apr 10, 2024

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Description

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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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c7b1850dfb41d0b4154aca8dbc04777fbd75616f to before b5069d44e2fbc4a9093d005b3ef0949add3dd27eAffected
  • c7b1850dfb41d0b4154aca8dbc04777fbd75616f to before cc30042df6fcc82ea18acf0dace831503e60a0b7Affected
  • 515b6124df6a84c957c5cc6bb6e8309dae7b1e9cAffected
  • 5.13.13 to before 5.14Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.14Affected
  • before 5.14Not affected
  • 5.15.5 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 5.16 and laterNot affected

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