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Critical · 9.8 CVE-2021-47544 EUVD-2021-34546

tcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault

Published May 24, 2024 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

Vendor: Linux Product: Linux Package: linux Package: linux Package: linux-allwinner-5.19 Package: linux-aws Package: linux-aws-5.0 Package: linux-aws-5.11 Package: linux-aws-5.13 Package: linux-aws-5.19 Package: linux-aws-5.3 Package: linux-aws-5.4 Package: linux-aws-5.8 Package: linux-aws-6.2 Package: linux-aws-fips Package: linux-aws-hwe Package: linux-azure Package: linux-azure-4.15 Package: linux-azure-5.11 Package: linux-azure-5.13 Package: linux-azure-5.19 Package: linux-azure-5.3 Package: linux-azure-5.4 Package: linux-azure-5.8 Package: linux-azure-6.2 Package: linux-azure-edge Package: linux-azure-fde Package: linux-azure-fde-5.19 Package: linux-azure-fde-6.2 Package: linux-azure-fips Package: linux-bluefield Package: linux-fips Package: linux-gcp Package: linux-gcp-4.15 Package: linux-gcp-5.11 Package: linux-gcp-5.13 Package: linux-gcp-5.19 Package: linux-gcp-5.3 Package: linux-gcp-5.4 Package: linux-gcp-5.8 Package: linux-gcp-6.2 Package: linux-gcp-fips Package: linux-gke Package: linux-gke-4.15 Package: linux-gke-5.15 Package: linux-gke-5.4 Package: linux-gkeop Package: linux-gkeop-5.4 Package: linux-hwe Package: linux-hwe-5.11 Package: linux-hwe-5.13 Package: linux-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-hwe-5.4 Package: linux-hwe-5.8 Package: linux-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-hwe-edge Package: linux-ibm Package: linux-ibm-5.4 Package: linux-intel-5.13 Package: linux-intel-iot-realtime Package: linux-iot Package: linux-kvm Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19 Package: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2 Package: linux-lts-xenial Package: linux-nvidia-6.2 Package: linux-oem Package: linux-oem-5.10 Package: linux-oem-5.13 Package: linux-oem-5.14 Package: linux-oem-5.17 Package: linux-oem-5.6 Package: linux-oem-6.0 Package: linux-oem-6.1 Package: linux-oracle Package: linux-oracle-5.0 Package: linux-oracle-5.11 Package: linux-oracle-5.13 Package: linux-oracle-5.3 Package: linux-oracle-5.4 Package: linux-oracle-5.8 Package: linux-raspi Package: linux-raspi-5.4 Package: linux-raspi-realtime Package: linux-raspi2 Package: linux-realtime Package: linux-riscv Package: linux-riscv-5.11 Package: linux-riscv-5.19 Package: linux-riscv-5.8 Package: linux-starfive-5.19 Package: linux-starfive-6.2 Package: linux-vmware Package: linux-xilinx-zynqmp Platform: Linux Ecosystem: Debian Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Description

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

tcp: fix page frag corruption on page fault

Steffen reported a TCP stream corruption for HTTP requests
served by the apache web-server using a cifs mount-point
and memory mapping the relevant file.

The root cause is quite similar to the one addressed by
commit 20eb4f29b602 ("net: fix sk_page_frag() recursion from
memory reclaim"). Here the nested access to the task page frag
is caused by a page fault on the (mmapped) user-space memory
buffer coming from the cifs file.

The page fault handler performs an smb transaction on a different
socket, inside the same process context. Since sk->sk_allaction
for such socket does not prevent the usage for the task_frag,
the nested allocation modify "under the hood" the page frag
in use by the outer sendmsg call, corrupting the stream.

The overall relevant stack trace looks like the following:

httpd 78268 [001] 3461630.850950: probe:tcp_sendmsg_locked:
ffffffff91461d91 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x1
ffffffff91462b57 tcp_sendmsg+0x27
ffffffff9139814e sock_sendmsg+0x3e
ffffffffc06dfe1d smb_send_kvec+0x28
[...]
ffffffffc06cfaf8 cifs_readpages+0x213
ffffffff90e83c4b read_pages+0x6b
ffffffff90e83f31 __do_page_cache_readahead+0x1c1
ffffffff90e79e98 filemap_fault+0x788
ffffffff90eb0458 __do_fault+0x38
ffffffff90eb5280 do_fault+0x1a0
ffffffff90eb7c84 __handle_mm_fault+0x4d4
ffffffff90eb8093 handle_mm_fault+0xc3
ffffffff90c74f6d __do_page_fault+0x1ed
ffffffff90c75277 do_page_fault+0x37
ffffffff9160111e page_fault+0x1e
ffffffff9109e7b5 copyin+0x25
ffffffff9109eb40 _copy_from_iter_full+0xe0
ffffffff91462370 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x5e0
ffffffff91462370 tcp_sendmsg_locked+0x5e0
ffffffff91462b57 tcp_sendmsg+0x27
ffffffff9139815c sock_sendmsg+0x4c
ffffffff913981f7 sock_write_iter+0x97
ffffffff90f2cc56 do_iter_readv_writev+0x156
ffffffff90f2dff0 do_iter_write+0x80
ffffffff90f2e1c3 vfs_writev+0xa3
ffffffff90f2e27c do_writev+0x5c
ffffffff90c042bb do_syscall_64+0x5b
ffffffff916000ad entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x65

The cifs filesystem rightfully sets sk_allocations to GFP_NOFS,
we can avoid the nesting using the sk page frag for allocation
lacking the __GFP_FS flag. Do not define an additional mm-helper
for that, as this is strictly tied to the sk page frag usage.

v1 -> v2:
- use a stricted sk_page_frag() check instead of reordering the
code (Eric)

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 3.7 5.10.84

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.15.15-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.15.15-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.15.15-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +22 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +27 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS linux +10 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +12 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +3 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 8 kernel-rt +12 4.18.0-372.9.1.rt7.166.el8 RHSA-2022:1975
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-372.9.1.el8 RHSA-2022:1988
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 8.4 EUS perf +26 4.18.0-305.40.1.el8_4 RHSA-2022:0777
RHEL 8.2 TUS perf +17 4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2 RHSA-2023:0395
RHEL 8.2 E4S perf +18 4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2 RHSA-2023:0395
RHEL 8.2 AUS perf +17 4.18.0-193.98.1.el8_2 RHSA-2023:0395
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.57.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +4 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-azure +2 4.12.14-16.191.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-docs +4 4.12.14-122.222.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-docs +2 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 kernel-azure +2 4.12.14-16.191.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1
SLES for SAP 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.222.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1
SLE Real Time 12 SP5 kernel-rt +3 4.12.14-10.191.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2381-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.82.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.82.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_15 +1 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1, SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_27 1-150400.9.3.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.222.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_58 1-8.3.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +3 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-syms +1 5.14.21-150400.24.122.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 15.5 dtb-aarch64 +10 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-azure +2 5.14.21-150500.33.57.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2019-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.68.1.150500.6.31.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2190-1
openSUSE Leap 15.5 kernel-rt +3 5.14.21-150500.13.58.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2008-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.4 kernel-rt 5.14.21-150400.15.82.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1
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openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.122.2.150400.24.58.2 SUSE-SU-2024:2189-1
openSUSE Leap Micro 5.3 kernel-rt 5.14.21-150400.15.82.1 SUSE-SU-2024:2011-1

Advisories 13

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