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GSD-2024-26960
Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2024-02-20 06:02Details
** RESERVED ** This candidate has been reserved by an organization or individual that will use it when announcing a new security problem. When the candidate has been publicized, the details for this candidate will be provided.
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CVE-2024-26960 (GCVE-0-2024-26960)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-01 05:19 – Updated: 2025-05-04 09:00
VLAI?
EPSS
Title
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
There was previously a theoretical window where swapoff() could run and
teardown a swap_info_struct while a call to free_swap_and_cache() was
running in another thread. This could cause, amongst other bad
possibilities, swap_page_trans_huge_swapped() (called by
free_swap_and_cache()) to access the freed memory for swap_map.
This is a theoretical problem and I haven't been able to provoke it from a
test case. But there has been agreement based on code review that this is
possible (see link below).
Fix it by using get_swap_device()/put_swap_device(), which will stall
swapoff(). There was an extra check in _swap_info_get() to confirm that
the swap entry was not free. This isn't present in get_swap_device()
because it doesn't make sense in general due to the race between getting
the reference and swapoff. So I've added an equivalent check directly in
free_swap_and_cache().
Details of how to provoke one possible issue (thanks to David Hildenbrand
for deriving this):
--8<-----
__swap_entry_free() might be the last user and result in
"count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE".
swapoff->try_to_unuse() will stop as soon as soon as si->inuse_pages==0.
So the question is: could someone reclaim the folio and turn
si->inuse_pages==0, before we completed swap_page_trans_huge_swapped().
Imagine the following: 2 MiB folio in the swapcache. Only 2 subpages are
still references by swap entries.
Process 1 still references subpage 0 via swap entry.
Process 2 still references subpage 1 via swap entry.
Process 1 quits. Calls free_swap_and_cache().
-> count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE
[then, preempted in the hypervisor etc.]
Process 2 quits. Calls free_swap_and_cache().
-> count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE
Process 2 goes ahead, passes swap_page_trans_huge_swapped(), and calls
__try_to_reclaim_swap().
__try_to_reclaim_swap()->folio_free_swap()->delete_from_swap_cache()->
put_swap_folio()->free_swap_slot()->swapcache_free_entries()->
swap_entry_free()->swap_range_free()->
...
WRITE_ONCE(si->inuse_pages, si->inuse_pages - nr_entries);
What stops swapoff to succeed after process 2 reclaimed the swap cache
but before process1 finished its call to swap_page_trans_huge_swapped()?
--8<-----
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < d85c11c97ecf92d47a4b29e3faca714dc1f18d0d
(git)
Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 2da5568ee222ce0541bfe446a07998f92ed1643e (git) Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 1ede7f1d7eed1738d1b9333fd1e152ccb450b86a (git) Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 0f98f6d2fb5fad00f8299b84b85b6bc1b6d7d19a (git) Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 3ce4c4c653e4e478ecb15d3c88e690f12cbf6b39 (git) Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 363d17e7f7907c8e27a9e86968af0eaa2301787b (git) Affected: 7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e , < 82b1c07a0af603e3c47b906c8e991dc96f01688e (git) |
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"cveId": "CVE-2024-26960",
"datePublished": "2024-05-01T05:19:12.112Z",
"dateReserved": "2024-02-19T14:20:24.201Z",
"dateUpdated": "2025-05-04T09:00:51.074Z",
"state": "PUBLISHED"
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}
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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