CVE-2024-35797
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2024
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: cachestat: fix two shmem bugs When cachestat on shmem races with swapping and invalidation, there are two possible bugs: 1) A swapin error can have resulted in a poisoned swap entry in the shmem inode's xarray. Calling get_shadow_from_swap_cache() on it will result in an out-of-bounds access to swapper_spaces[]. Validate the entry with non_swap_entry() before going further. 2) When we find a valid swap entry in the shmem's inode, the shadow entry in the swapcache might not exist yet: swap IO is still in progress and we're before __remove_mapping; swapin, invalidation, or swapoff have removed the shadow from swapcache after we saw the shmem swap entry. This will send a NULL to workingset_test_recent(). The latter purely operates on pointer bits, so it won't crash - node 0, memcg ID 0, eviction timestamp 0, etc. are all valid inputs - but it's a bogus test. In theory that could result in a false "recently evicted" count. Such a false positive wouldn't be the end of the world. But for code clarity and (future) robustness, be explicit about this case. Bail on get_shadow_from_swap_cache() returning NULL.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a | affected | git | b79f9e1ff27c994a4c452235ba09e672ec698e23 | Unavailable | None listed |
| cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a | affected | git | d962f6c583458037dc7e529659b2b02b9dd3d94b | Unavailable | None listed |
| cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a | affected | git | 24a0e73d544439bb9329fbbafac44299e548a677 | Unavailable | None listed |
| cf264e1329fb0307e044f7675849f9f38b44c11a | affected | git | d5d39c707a4cf0bcc84680178677b97aa2cb2627 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.5 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.5 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.6.24 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.6.* | None listed |
| 6.7.12 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.7.* | None listed |
| 6.8.3 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.8.* | None listed |
| 6.9 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |