{"id":"CVE-2024-40914","state":"PUBLISHED","title":"mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio\n\nWhen I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:\n\n kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135!\n invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00491-gd5ce28f156fe-dirty #14\n RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0\n RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246\n RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0\n RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492\n R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n Call Trace:\n  <TASK>\n  do_shrink_slab+0x14f/0x6a0\n  shrink_slab+0xca/0x8c0\n  shrink_node+0x2d0/0x7d0\n  balance_pgdat+0x33a/0x720\n  kswapd+0x1f3/0x410\n  kthread+0xd5/0x100\n  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50\n  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  </TASK>\n Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0\n RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246\n RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8\n RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0\n RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492\n R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000\n R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00\n FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0\n\nThe root cause is that HWPoison flag will be set for huge_zero_folio\nwithout increasing the folio refcnt.  But then unpoison_memory() will\ndecrease the folio refcnt unexpectedly as it appears like a successfully\nhwpoisoned folio leading to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0) when\nreleasing huge_zero_folio.\n\nSkip unpoisoning huge_zero_folio in unpoison_memory() to fix this issue. \nWe're not prepared to unpoison huge_zero_folio yet.","publishedAt":"2024-07-12T12:24:58.055Z","updatedAt":"2026-05-23T15:50:52.644Z","severity":null,"assigner":"Linux","products":["Linux 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