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Linux Linux — mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L N U N N H 5.5 .0023 14.6 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
Linux 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 – —
Linux 5.14 – 5.15.154
TIMELINE
May 17 Reserved by Linux
May 19 Published (CNA: Linux)
Aug 4 RESCORED — CVE-2024-35872 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD).
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/secretmem: fix GUP-fast succeeding on secretmem folios
folio_is_secretmem() currently relies on secretmem folios being LRU
folios, to save some cycles.
However, folios might reside in a folio batch without the LRU flag set, or
temporarily have their LRU flag cleared. Consequently, the LRU flag is
unreliable for this purpose.
In particular, this is the case when secretmem_fault() allocates a fresh
page and calls filemap_add_folio()->folio_add_lru(). The folio might be
added to the per-cpu folio batch and won't get the LRU flag set until the
batch was drained using e.g., lru_add_drain().
Consequently, folio_is_secretmem() might not detect secretmem folios and
GUP-fast can succeed in grabbing a secretmem folio, crashing the kernel
when we would later try reading/writing to the folio, because the folio
has been unmapped from the directmap.
Fix it by removing that unreliable check.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
| May 17, 2024 | Reserved | Reserved by Linux |
| May 19, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: Linux) |
| August 4, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-35872 (Linux). CVSS 7.8 → 5.5 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
| Linux | Linux | — | 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49 | — |
| Linux | Linux | — | 5.14 | 5.15.154 |
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