CVE-2022-49511

fbdev: defio: fix the pagelist corruption

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 26, 2025
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Feb 26, 2025

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Description

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

fbdev: defio: fix the pagelist corruption

Easily hit the below list corruption: == list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffffffffc0ceb090), but was ffffec604507edc8. (prev=ffffec604507edc8). WARNING: CPU: 65 PID: 3959 at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add_valid+0x53/0x80 CPU: 65 PID: 3959 Comm: fbdev Tainted: G U RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid+0x53/0x80 Call Trace: <TASK> fb_deferred_io_mkwrite+0xea/0x150 do_page_mkwrite+0x57/0xc0 do_wp_page+0x278/0x2f0 __handle_mm_fault+0xdc2/0x1590 handle_mm_fault+0xdd/0x2c0 do_user_addr_fault+0x1d3/0x650 exc_page_fault+0x77/0x180 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 RIP: 0033:0x7fd98fc8fad1 ==

Figure out the race happens when one process is adding &page->lru into the pagelist tail in fb_deferred_io_mkwrite(), another process is re-initializing the same &page->lru in fb_deferred_io_fault(), which is not protected by the lock.

This fix is to init all the page lists one time during initialization, it not only fixes the list corruption, but also avoids INIT_LIST_HEAD() redundantly.

V2: change "int i" to "unsigned int i" (Geert Uytterhoeven)

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5d3aff76a3165087b0f897c0d677dfa987d9875d to before e79b2b2aadeffe1db54a6b569b9b621575c3eb07Affected
  • 105a940416fc622406653b6fe54732897642dfbc to before 6a9ae2fe887042f76fd3d334349e64e8ab3c55a2Affected
  • 105a940416fc622406653b6fe54732897642dfbc to before 856082f021a28221db2c32bd0531614a8382be67Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 5.18.3 through 5.18.*Not affected
  • 5.19 and laterNot affected

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