🛡️ CVE-2024-42317 — kernel

🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
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Description

mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed

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

mm/huge_memory: avoid PMD-size page cache if needed

xarray can't support arbitrary page cache size. the largest and supported

page cache size is defined as MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER by commit 099d90642a71

("mm/filemap: make MAX_PAGECACHE_ORDER acceptable to xarray"). However,

it's possible to have 512MB page cache in the huge memory's collapsing

path on ARM64 system whose base page size is 64KB. 512MB page cache is

breaking the limitation and a warning is raised when the xarray entry is

split as shown in the following example.

[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# cat /proc/1/smaps | grep KernelPageSize

KernelPageSize: 64 kB

[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# cat /tmp/test.c

:

int main(int argc, char **argv)

{

const char *filename = TEST_XFS_FILENAME;

int fd = 0;

void *buf = (void *)-1, *p;

int pgsize = getpagesize();

int ret = 0;

if (pgsize != 0x10000) {

fprintf(stdout, "System with 64KB base page size is required!\n");

return -EPERM;

}

system("echo 0 > /sys/devices/virtual/bdi/253:0/read_ahead_kb");

system("echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches");

/* Open the xfs file */

fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY);

assert(fd > 0);

/* Create VMA */

buf = mmap(NULL, TEST_MEM_SIZE, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);

assert(buf != (void *)-1);

fprintf(stdout, "mapped buffer at 0x%p\n", buf);

/* Populate VMA */

ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_NOHUGEPAGE);

assert(ret == 0);

ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_POPULATE_READ);

assert(ret == 0);

/* Collapse VMA */

ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_HUGEPAGE);

assert(ret == 0);

ret = madvise(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE, MADV_COLLAPSE);

if (ret) {

fprintf(stdout, "Error %d to madvise(MADV_COLLAPSE)\n", errno);

goto out;

}

/* Split xarray entry. Write permission is needed */

munmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);

buf = (void *)-1;

close(fd);

fd = open(filename, O_RDWR);

assert(fd > 0);

fallocate(fd, FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE | FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE,

TEST_MEM_SIZE - pgsize, pgsize);

out:

if (buf != (void *)-1)

munmap(buf, TEST_MEM_SIZE);

if (fd > 0)

close(fd);

return ret;

}

[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# gcc /tmp/test.c -o /tmp/test

[root@dhcp-10-26-1-207 ~]# /tmp/test

------------[ cut here ]------------

WARNING: CPU: 25 PID: 7560 at lib/xarray.c:1025 xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128

Modules linked in: nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib \

nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct \

nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 \

ip_set rfkill nf_tables nfnetlink vfat fat virtio_balloon drm fuse \

xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 virtio_net \

sha1_ce net_failover virtio_blk virtio_console failover dimlib virtio_mmio

CPU: 25 PID: 7560 Comm: test Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.10.0-rc7-gavin+ #9

Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20240524-1.el9 05/24/2024

pstate: 83400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)

pc : xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128

lr : split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x780

sp : ffff8000ac32f660

x29: ffff8000ac32f660 x28: ffff0000e0969eb0 x27: ffff8000ac32f6c0

x26: 0000000000000c40 x25: ffff0000e0969eb0 x24: 000000000000000d

x23: ffff8000ac32f6c0 x22: ffffffdfc0700000 x21: 0000000000000000

x20: 0000000000000000 x19: ffffffdfc0700000 x18: 0000000000000000

x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffffd5f3708ffc70 x15: 0000000000000000

x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000

x11: ffffffffffffffc0 x10: 0000000000000040 x9 : ffffd5f3708e692c

x8 : 0000000000000003 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : ffff0000e0969eb8

x5 : ffffd5f37289e378 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000c40

x2 : 000000000000000d x1 : 000000000000000c x0 : 0000000000000000

Call trace:

xas_split_alloc+0xf8/0x128

split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x1c4/0x780

truncate_inode_partial_folio+0xdc/0x160

truncate_inode_pages_range+0x1b4/0x4a8

truncate_pagecache_range+0x84/0xa

---truncated---

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2024-42317 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • kernel (from 5.17.0 up to 6.10.3)
  • linux-kernel (from 5.17 up to 6.10.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 August 2024 and last revised on 15 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

git.kernel.org (Web)
git.kernel.org (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
git.kernel.org (Package)

CVE-2024-42317 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-08-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-07-15

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
kernel 5.17.0 6.10.3
linux-kernel 5.17 6.10.3

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