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CVE-2024-49872

Vulnerability Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/gup: fix memfd_pin_folios alloc race panic

If memfd_pin_folios tries to create a hugetlb page, but someone else
already did, then folio gets the value -EEXIST here:

folio = memfd_alloc_folio(memfd, start_idx);
if (IS_ERR(folio)) {
ret = PTR_ERR(folio);
if (ret != -EEXIST)
goto err;

then on the next trip through the "while start_idx" loop we panic here:

if (folio) {
folio_put(folio);

To fix, set the folio to NULL on error.

Vulnerability Details

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