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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-44943"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-08-28T07:11:49.623Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T20:32:28.478Z"
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-2024-44943"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-44943.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-44943"
title: "mm: gup: stop abusing try_grab_folio"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: gup: stop abusing try_grab_folio\n\nA kernel warning was reported when pinning folio in CMA memory when\nlaunching SEV virtual machine.  The splat looks like:\n\n[  464.325306] WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 6734 at mm/gup.c:1313 __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520\n[  464.325464] CPU: 13 PID: 6734 Comm: qemu-kvm Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.6.33+ #6\n[  464.325477] RIP: 0010:__get_user_pages+0x423/0x520\n[  464.325515] Call Trace:\n[  464.325520]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n[  464.325523]  ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520\n[  464.325528]  ? __warn+0x81/0x130\n[  464.325536]  ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520\n[  464.325541]  ? report_bug+0x171/0x1a0\n[  464.325549]  ? handle_bug+0x3c/0x70\n[  464.325554]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70\n[  464.325558]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20\n[  464.325567]  ? __get_user_pages+0x423/0x520\n[  464.325575]  __gup_longterm_locked+0x212/0x7a0\n[  464.325583]  internal_get_user_pages_fast+0xfb/0x190\n[  464.325590]  pin_user_pages_fast+0x47/0x60\n[  464.325598]  sev_pin_memory+0xca/0x170 [kvm_amd]\n[  464.325616]  sev_mem_enc_register_region+0x81/0x130 [kvm_amd]\n\nPer the analysis done by yangge, when starting the SEV virtual machine, it\nwill call pin_user_pages_fast(..., FOLL_LONGTERM, ...) to pin the memory. \nBut the page is in CMA area, so fast GUP will fail then fallback to the\nslow path due to the longterm pinnalbe check in try_grab_folio().\n\nThe slow path will try to pin the pages then migrate them out of CMA area.\nBut the slow path also uses try_grab_folio() to pin the page, it will\nalso fail due to the same check then the above warning is triggered.\n\nIn addition, the try_grab_folio() is supposed to be used in fast path and\nit elevates folio refcount by using add ref unless zero.  We are guaranteed\nto have at least one stable reference in slow path, so the simple atomic add\ncould be used.  The performance difference should be trivial, but the\nmisuse may be confusing and misleading.\n\nRedefined try_grab_folio() to try_grab_folio_fast(), and try_grab_page()\nto try_grab_folio(), and use them in the proper paths.  This solves both\nthe abuse and the kernel warning.\n\nThe proper naming makes their usecase more clear and should prevent from\nabusing in the future.\n\npeterx said:\n\n: The user will see the pin fails, for gpu-slow it further triggers the WARN\n: right below that failure (as in the original report):\n: \n:         folio = try_grab_folio(page, page_increm - 1,\n:                                 foll_flags);\n:         if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!folio)) { \u003c------------------------ here\n:                 /*\n:                         * Release the 1st page ref if the\n:                         * folio is problematic, fail hard.\n:                         */\n:                 gup_put_folio(page_folio(page), 1,\n:                                 foll_flags);\n:                 ret = -EFAULT;\n:                 goto out;\n:         }\n\n[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/1719478388-31917-1-git-send-email-yangge1116@126.com/\n\n[shy828301@gmail.com: fix implicit declaration of function try_grab_folio_fast]"
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