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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2024-53097 EUVD-2024-50513GHSA-pg27-6936-jg2x

mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc

Published Nov 25, 2024 · Updated May 23, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

mm: krealloc: Fix MTE false alarm in __do_krealloc

This patch addresses an issue introduced by commit 1a83a716ec233 ("mm:
krealloc: consider spare memory for __GFP_ZERO") which causes MTE
(Memory Tagging Extension) to falsely report a slab-out-of-bounds error.

The problem occurs when zeroing out spare memory in __do_krealloc. The
original code only considered software-based KASAN and did not account
for MTE. It does not reset the KASAN tag before calling memset, leading
to a mismatch between the pointer tag and the memory tag, resulting
in a false positive.

Example of the error:
==================================================================
swapper/0: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __memset+0x84/0x188
swapper/0: Write at addr f4ffff8005f0fdf0 by task swapper/0/1
swapper/0: Pointer tag: [f4], memory tag: [fe]
swapper/0:
swapper/0: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.12.
swapper/0: Hardware name: MT6991(ENG) (DT)
swapper/0: Call trace:
swapper/0: dump_backtrace+0xfc/0x17c
swapper/0: show_stack+0x18/0x28
swapper/0: dump_stack_lvl+0x40/0xa0
swapper/0: print_report+0x1b8/0x71c
swapper/0: kasan_report+0xec/0x14c
swapper/0: __do_kernel_fault+0x60/0x29c
swapper/0: do_bad_area+0x30/0xdc
swapper/0: do_tag_check_fault+0x20/0x34
swapper/0: do_mem_abort+0x58/0x104
swapper/0: el1_abort+0x3c/0x5c
swapper/0: el1h_64_sync_handler+0x80/0xcc
swapper/0: el1h_64_sync+0x68/0x6c
swapper/0: __memset+0x84/0x188
swapper/0: btf_populate_kfunc_set+0x280/0x3d8
swapper/0: __register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x43c/0x468
swapper/0: register_btf_kfunc_id_set+0x48/0x60
swapper/0: register_nf_nat_bpf+0x1c/0x40
swapper/0: nf_nat_init+0xc0/0x128
swapper/0: do_one_initcall+0x184/0x464
swapper/0: do_initcall_level+0xdc/0x1b0
swapper/0: do_initcalls+0x70/0xc0
swapper/0: do_basic_setup+0x1c/0x28
swapper/0: kernel_init_freeable+0x144/0x1b8
swapper/0: kernel_init+0x20/0x1a8
swapper/0: ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
==================================================================

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.10.14 – < 6.11, 5.10.227 – < 5.10.230, 5.15.168 – < 5.15.173, 6.1.113 – < 6.1.118, 6.6.55 – < 6.6.62, 6.11.3 – < 6.11.9 6.11

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 6.11.9-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.11.9-1 —
Debian 12 linux 6.1.119-1 —
Debian 11 linux 5.10.234-1 DLA-4075-1
Debian 11 linux-6.1 6.1.119-1~deb11u1 DLA-4008-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Nvidia-BlueField 22.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.15.0-1060.62 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux 5.15.0-133.144 USN-7288-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1078.85 USN-7308-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1081.90 USN-7289-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1081.90.1 USN-7289-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1077.86 USN-7291-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke +1 5.15.0-1075.81 USN-7291-1, USN-7289-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1060.68 USN-7289-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1070.73 USN-7289-3
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1073.79 USN-7289-4
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1076.81 USN-7388-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-lowlatency 5.15.0-133.143 USN-7288-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1072.73 USN-7289-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra 5.15.0-1033.33 USN-7389-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia-tegra-igx 5.15.0-1021.21 USN-7389-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1072.75 USN-7305-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +31 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-xilinx-zynqmp 5.15.0-1044.48 USN-7390-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1080.87~20.04.1 USN-7388-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1081.90~20.04.1 USN-7289-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fde-5.15 5.15.0-1081.90~20.04.1.1 USN-7289-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1077.86~20.04.1 USN-7291-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-134.145~20.04.1 USN-7331-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.15 5.15.0-1074.77~20.04.1 USN-7458-1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1073.79~20.04.2 USN-7289-4
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15 5.15.0-133.143~20.04.1 USN-7288-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1075.81~20.04.1 USN-7289-2
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1073.77~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +13 No fix yet —
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iot-realtime 5.15.0-1071.73 —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1078.86 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.15.0-1078.85+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.15.0-1080.89+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-fips 5.15.0-133.144+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 22.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.15.0-1077.86+fips1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 rv +77 5.14.0-570.12.1.el9_6 RHSA-2025:6966

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.1.119-129.201 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-802
Amazon Linux 2023 perf +14 6.1.119-129.201.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-802

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kernel 6.6.64.2-1 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 9 bpftool 7.5.0-802.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6966
Oracle Linux 9 rv +28 5.14.0-570.12.1.0.1.el9_6 ELSA-2025-6966
Oracle Linux 8 bpftool +13 5.15.0-304.171.4.el9uek ELSA-2025-20018
Oracle Linux 7 kernel-uek +6 5.4.17-2136.338.4.1.el8uek ELSA-2024-12884
Oracle Linux 7 perf +3 5.4.17-2136.338.4.1.el7uek ELSA-2024-12884

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