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Unscored CVE-2024-39298 EUVD-2024-38123GHSA-9m6x-4fj9-2p5c

mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages

Published Jun 25, 2024 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages

When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:

page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00
flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
raw: 06fffe0000000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(!PageBuddy(page))
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:1009!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
RIP: 0010:__del_page_from_free_list+0x151/0x180
RSP: 0018:ffffa49c90437998 EFLAGS: 00000046
RAX: 0000000000000035 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff8dd8dfd1c9c0
RBP: ffffd901233b8000 R08: ffffffffab5511f8 R09: 0000000000008c69
R10: 0000000000003c15 R11: ffffffffab5511f8 R12: ffff8dd8fffc0c80
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff8dd8fffc0c80 R15: 0000000000000009
FS: 00007ff916304740(0000) GS:ffff8dd8dfd00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055eae50124c8 CR3: 00000008479e0000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__rmqueue_pcplist+0x23b/0x520
get_page_from_freelist+0x26b/0xe40
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x113/0x1120
__folio_alloc_noprof+0x11/0xb0
alloc_buddy_hugetlb_folio.isra.0+0x5a/0x130
__alloc_fresh_hugetlb_folio+0xe7/0x140
alloc_pool_huge_folio+0x68/0x100
set_max_huge_pages+0x13d/0x340
hugetlb_sysctl_handler_common+0xe8/0x110
proc_sys_call_handler+0x194/0x280
vfs_write+0x387/0x550
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7ff916114887
RSP: 002b:00007ffec8a2fd78 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000055eae500e350 RCX: 00007ff916114887
RDX: 0000000000000004 RSI: 000055eae500e390 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 000055eae50104c0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000055eae50104c0
R10: 0000000000000077 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000004
R13: 0000000000000004 R14: 00007ff916216b80 R15: 00007ff916216a00
</TASK>
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

And before the panic, there had an warning about bad page state:

BUG: Bad page state in process page-types pfn:8cee00
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x8cee00
flags: 0x6fffe0000000000(node=1|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x7fff)
page_type: 0xffffff7f(buddy)
raw: 06fffe0000000000 ffffd901241c0008 ffffd901240f8008 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000009 00000000ffffff7f 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero mapcount
Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject
CPU: 8 PID: 154211 Comm: page-types Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00499-g5544ec3178e2-dirty #22
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x83/0xa0
bad_page+0x63/0xf0
free_unref_page+0x36e/0x5c0
unpoison_memory+0x50b/0x630
simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110
debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60
full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80
vfs_write+0xcd/0x550
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0xc2/0x1d0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f189a514887
RSP: 002b:00007ffdcd899718 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f189a514887
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 00007ffdcd899730 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007ffdcd8997a0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffdcd8994b2
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007ffdcda199a8
R13: 0000000000404af1 R14: 000000000040ad78 R15: 00007f189a7a5040
</TASK>

The root cause should be the below race:

memory_failure
try_memory_failure_hugetlb
me_huge_page
__page_handle_poison
dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio
drain_all_pages -- Buddy page can be isolated e.g. for compaction.
take_page_off_buddy -- Failed as page is not in the
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.0 6.1.95

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 6.9.7-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.9.7-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.99-1 DSA-5731-1
Debian 11 linux-6.1 6.1.119-1~deb11u1 DLA-4008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux 6.8.0-44.44 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws 6.8.0-1015.16 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp +1 6.8.0-1014.16 USN-7004-1, USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gke 6.8.0-1010.13 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-ibm +2 6.8.0-1012.12 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia 6.8.0-1013.14 USN-7005-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-nvidia-lowlatency 6.8.0-1013.14.1 USN-7005-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi 6.8.0-1011.12 USN-6999-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +1 6.8.0-44.44.1 USN-6999-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws-6.8 6.8.0-1015.16~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1014.16~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.8 6.8.0-45.45~22.04.1 USN-7029-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm-6.8 +1 6.8.0-1012.12~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-6.8 6.8.0-1013.14~22.04.1 USN-7005-2
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.8 +1 6.8.0-44.44.1~22.04.1 USN-7008-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime 6.8.0-2010.10 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime 6.8.1-1008.8 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.8 6.8.1-1008.8~22.04.1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 24.04 LTS linux-fips 6.8.0-78.78+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
RHEL 9 rv +67 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 RHSA-2024:9315
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +5 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1.150700.17.9.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-docs 6.4.0-150700.53.11.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_3 1-150700.15.3.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.96-102.177 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-836
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.96-102.177.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-836

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 bpftool 7.4.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315
Oracle Linux 9 rv +28 5.14.0-503.11.1.el9_5 ELSA-2024-9315

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