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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-40915"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-07-12T12:24:58.770Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:22:17.453Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:16.009Z"
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-2024-40915"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-40915.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-40915"
title: "riscv: rewrite __kernel_map_pages() to fix sleeping in invalid context"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nriscv: rewrite __kernel_map_pages() to fix sleeping in invalid context\n\n__kernel_map_pages() is a debug function which clears the valid bit in page\ntable entry for deallocated pages to detect illegal memory accesses to\nfreed pages.\n\nThis function set/clear the valid bit using __set_memory(). __set_memory()\nacquires init_mm's semaphore, and this operation may sleep. This is\nproblematic, because  __kernel_map_pages() can be called in atomic context,\nand thus is illegal to sleep. An example warning that this causes:\n\nBUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1578\nin_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd\npreempt_count: 2, expected: 0\nCPU: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 6.9.0-g1d4c6d784ef6 #37\nHardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)\nCall Trace:\n[\u003cffffffff800060dc\u003e] dump_backtrace+0x1c/0x24\n[\u003cffffffff8091ef6e\u003e] show_stack+0x2c/0x38\n[\u003cffffffff8092baf8\u003e] dump_stack_lvl+0x5a/0x72\n[\u003cffffffff8092bb24\u003e] dump_stack+0x14/0x1c\n[\u003cffffffff8003b7ac\u003e] __might_resched+0x104/0x10e\n[\u003cffffffff8003b7f4\u003e] __might_sleep+0x3e/0x62\n[\u003cffffffff8093276a\u003e] down_write+0x20/0x72\n[\u003cffffffff8000cf00\u003e] __set_memory+0x82/0x2fa\n[\u003cffffffff8000d324\u003e] __kernel_map_pages+0x5a/0xd4\n[\u003cffffffff80196cca\u003e] __alloc_pages_bulk+0x3b2/0x43a\n[\u003cffffffff8018ee82\u003e] __vmalloc_node_range+0x196/0x6ba\n[\u003cffffffff80011904\u003e] copy_process+0x72c/0x17ec\n[\u003cffffffff80012ab4\u003e] kernel_clone+0x60/0x2fe\n[\u003cffffffff80012f62\u003e] kernel_thread+0x82/0xa0\n[\u003cffffffff8003552c\u003e] kthreadd+0x14a/0x1be\n[\u003cffffffff809357de\u003e] ret_from_fork+0xe/0x1c\n\nRewrite this function with apply_to_existing_page_range(). It is fine to\nnot have any locking, because __kernel_map_pages() works with pages being\nallocated/deallocated and those pages are not changed by anyone else in the\nmeantime."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"5fde3db5eb028b95aeefa1ab192d36800414e8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"919f8626099d9909b9a9620b05e8c8ab06581876"},{"version":"5fde3db5eb028b95aeefa1ab192d36800414e8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8661a7af04991201640863ad1a0983173f84b5eb"},{"version":"5fde3db5eb028b95aeefa1ab192d36800414e8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5257ceb19d92069195254866421f425aea42915"},{"version":"5fde3db5eb028b95aeefa1ab192d36800414e8b8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fb1cf0878328fe75d47f0aed0a65b30126fcefc4"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.7"},{"version":"6.1.95","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.35","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.9.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.9.*"},{"version":"6.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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