Linux: mm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks
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Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks
madvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() takes pmd_trans_huge_lock(), whose pmd_is_huge() check returns true for a device-private PMD. The subsequent !pmd_present() branch has a VM_BUG_ON() asserting migration is the only allowed non-present case; a device-private PMD trips it.
Skip device-private PMDs in that non-present branch and continue to huge_unlock before calling pmd_folio(). Downgrade the check to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() so an unexpected PMD softleaf logs a warning rather than panicking. Drop the thp_migration_supported() guard: it expands to IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_SOFTLEAF), and both pmd_is_migration_entry() and pmd_is_device_private_entry() already return false when that config is not selected, so the guard suppresses only the case where the warning would already be silent.
Potential trigger: an HMM-based GPU driver races with madvise(MADV_COLD)/MADV_PAGEOUT: pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) reads true, then migrate_vma_pages() flips the PMD to a device-private entry before the PMD lock is acquired.
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Affected versions 6
- Linuxaffected: 368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149 before 5c0d7b658cda62cd17cb3652783386d5608030efCVE List
- Linuxaffected: 368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149 before d4b76d0b03cb49611312ecc4bcfb55ccdf0843e2CVE List
- Linuxaffected: 6.19CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: all versions before 6.19CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.2.4 through 7.2.*CVE List
- Linuxunaffected: 7.3CVE List