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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2022-49778"
idYear: 2022
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-01T14:09:13.828Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T19:06:36.025Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49778"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2022-49778.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-49778"
title: "arm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for non-leaf pmd/pud"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\narm64/mm: fix incorrect file_map_count for non-leaf pmd/pud\n\nThe page table check trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly when collapse hugepage:\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n kernel BUG at mm/page_table_check.c:82!\n Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP\n Dumping ftrace buffer:\n    (ftrace buffer empty)\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 6 PID: 68 Comm: khugepaged Not tainted 6.1.0-rc3+ #750\n Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n pc : page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0\n lr : page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x240/0x3f0\n[...]\n Call trace:\n  page_table_check_clear.isra.0+0x258/0x3f0\n  __page_table_check_pmd_clear+0xbc/0x108\n  pmdp_collapse_flush+0xb0/0x160\n  collapse_huge_page+0xa08/0x1080\n  hpage_collapse_scan_pmd+0xf30/0x1590\n  khugepaged_scan_mm_slot.constprop.0+0x52c/0xac8\n  khugepaged+0x338/0x518\n  kthread+0x278/0x2f8\n  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20\n[...]\n\nSince pmd_user_accessible_page() doesn't check if a pmd is leaf, it\ndecrease file_map_count for a non-leaf pmd comes from collapse_huge_page().\nand so trigger BUG_ON() unexpectedly.\n\nFix this problem by using pmd_leaf() insteal of pmd_present() in\npmd_user_accessible_page(). Moreover, use pud_leaf() for\npud_user_accessible_page() too."
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