# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2024-56677"
idYear: 2024
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2024-12-28T09:46:06.497Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:46:01.649Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:20.494Z"
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-2024-56677"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-56677.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-56677"
title: "powerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\npowerpc/fadump: Move fadump_cma_init to setup_arch() after initmem_init()\n\nDuring early init CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES can be PAGE_SIZE,\nsince pageblock_order is still zero and it gets initialized\nlater during initmem_init() e.g.\nsetup_arch() -\u003e initmem_init() -\u003e sparse_init() -\u003e set_pageblock_order()\n\nOne such use case where this causes issue is -\nearly_setup() -\u003e early_init_devtree() -\u003e fadump_reserve_mem() -\u003e fadump_cma_init()\n\nThis causes CMA memory alignment check to be bypassed in\ncma_init_reserved_mem(). Then later cma_activate_area() can hit\na VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 \u003c\u003c order) - 1)) if the reserved memory\narea was not pageblock_order aligned.\n\nFix it by moving the fadump_cma_init() after initmem_init(),\nwhere other such cma reservations also gets called.\n\n\u003cstack trace\u003e\n==============\npage: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x10010\nflags: 0x13ffff800000000(node=1|zone=0|lastcpupid=0x7ffff) CMA\nraw: 013ffff800000000 5deadbeef0000100 5deadbeef0000122 0000000000000000\nraw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\npage dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(pfn & ((1 \u003c\u003c order) - 1))\n------------[ cut here ]------------\nkernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:778!\n\nCall Trace:\n__free_one_page+0x57c/0x7b0 (unreliable)\nfree_pcppages_bulk+0x1a8/0x2c8\nfree_unref_page_commit+0x3d4/0x4e4\nfree_unref_page+0x458/0x6d0\ninit_cma_reserved_pageblock+0x114/0x198\ncma_init_reserved_areas+0x270/0x3e0\ndo_one_initcall+0x80/0x2f8\nkernel_init_freeable+0x33c/0x530\nkernel_init+0x34/0x26c\nret_from_kernel_user_thread+0x14/0x1c"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"11ac3e87ce09c27f4587a8c4fe0829d814021a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"aabef6301dcf410dfd2b8759cd413b2a003c7e3f"},{"version":"11ac3e87ce09c27f4587a8c4fe0829d814021a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c5c1d1ef70834013fc3bd12b6a0f4664c6d75a74"},{"version":"11ac3e87ce09c27f4587a8c4fe0829d814021a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f551637fe9bf863386309e03f9d148d97f535ad1"},{"version":"11ac3e87ce09c27f4587a8c4fe0829d814021a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7351c5a6507b4401aeecadb5959131410a339520"},{"version":"11ac3e87ce09c27f4587a8c4fe0829d814021a82","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"05b94cae1c47f94588c3e7096963c1007c4d9c1d"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.19"},{"version":"6.1.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.64","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.11.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.11.*"},{"version":"6.12.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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