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Linux Linux — mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0014 3.5 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux b653db77350c7307a513b81856fe53e94cf42446 – —
Linux 5.19 – 6.0.7
TIMELINE
Oct 7 Reserved by Linux
Oct 7 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2022-50517 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/huge_memory: do not clobber swp_entry_t during THP split
The following has been observed when running stressng mmap since commit
b653db77350c ("mm: Clear page->private when splitting or migrating a page")
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#75 stuck for 26s! [stress-ng:9546]
CPU: 75 PID: 9546 Comm: stress-ng Tainted: G E 6.0.0-revert-b653db77-fix+ #29 0357d79b60fb09775f678e4f3f64ef0579ad1374
Hardware name: SGI.COM C2112-4GP3/X10DRT-P-Series, BIOS 2.0a 05/09/2016
RIP: 0010:xas_descend+0x28/0x80
Code: cc cc 0f b6 0e 48 8b 57 08 48 d3 ea 83 e2 3f 89 d0 48 83 c0 04 48 8b 44 c6 08 48 89 77 18 48 89 c1 83 e1 03 48 83 f9 02 75 08 <48> 3d fd 00 00 00 76 08 88 57 12 c3 cc cc cc cc 48 c1 e8 02 89 c2
RSP: 0018:ffffbbf02a2236a8 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: ffff9cab7d6a0002 RBX: ffffe04b0af88040 RCX: 0000000000000002
RDX: 0000000000000030 RSI: ffff9cab60509b60 RDI: ffffbbf02a2236c0
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff9cab60509b60 R09: ffffbbf02a2236c0
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: ffffbbf02a223698 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff9cab4e28da80 R14: 0000000000039c01 R15: ffff9cab4e28da88
FS: 00007fab89b85e40(0000) GS:ffff9cea3fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fab84e00000 CR3: 00000040b73a4003 CR4: 00000000003706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
xas_load+0x3a/0x50
__filemap_get_folio+0x80/0x370
? put_swap_page+0x163/0x360
pagecache_get_page+0x13/0x90
__try_to_reclaim_swap+0x50/0x190
scan_swap_map_slots+0x31e/0x670
get_swap_pages+0x226/0x3c0
folio_alloc_swap+0x1cc/0x240
add_to_swap+0x14/0x70
shrink_page_list+0x968/0xbc0
reclaim_page_list+0x70/0xf0
reclaim_pages+0xdd/0x120
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range+0x814/0xf30
walk_pgd_range+0x637/0xa30
__walk_page_range+0x142/0x170
walk_page_range+0x146/0x170
madvise_pageout+0xb7/0x280
? asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
madvise_vma_behavior+0x3b7/0xac0
? find_vma+0x4a/0x70
? find_vma+0x64/0x70
? madvise_vma_anon_name+0x40/0x40
madvise_walk_vmas+0xa6/0x130
do_madvise+0x2f4/0x360
__x64_sys_madvise+0x26/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x80
? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40
? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80
? syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x17/0x40
? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80
? do_syscall_64+0x67/0x80
? common_interrupt+0x8b/0xa0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The problem can be reproduced with the mmtests config
config-workload-stressng-mmap. It does not always happen and when it
triggers is variable but it has happened on multiple machines.
The intent of commit b653db77350c patch was to avoid the case where
PG_private is clear but folio->private is not-NULL. However, THP tail
pages uses page->private for "swp_entry_t if folio_test_swapcache()" as
stated in the documentation for struct folio. This patch only clobbers
page->private for tail pages if the head page was not in swapcache and
warns once if page->private had an unexpected value.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| October 7, 2025 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| October 7, 2025 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2022-50517 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | b653db77350c7307a513b81856fe53e94cf42446 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.19 | 6.0.7 |
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