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CVE-2022-49666

powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC

Summary

powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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

powerpc/memhotplug: Add add_pages override for PPC

With commit ffa0b64e3be5 ("powerpc: Fix virt_addr_valid() for 64-bit Book3E & 32-bit")
the kernel now validate the addr against high_memory value. This results
in the below BUG_ON with dax pfns.

[ 635.798741][T26531] kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:5521!
1:mon> e
cpu 0x1: Vector: 700 (Program Check) at [c000000007287630]
pc: c00000000055ed48: free_pages.part.0+0x48/0x110
lr: c00000000053ca70: tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
sp: c0000000072878d0
msr: 800000000282b033
current = 0xc00000000afabe00
paca = 0xc00000037ffff300 irqmask: 0x03 irq_happened: 0x05
pid = 26531, comm = 50-landscape-sy
kernel BUG at :5521!
Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-14659-g4ec05be7c2e1 (kvaneesh@ltc-boston8) (gcc (Ubuntu 9.4.0-1ubuntu1~20.04.1) 9.4.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.34) #625 SMP Thu Jun 23 00:35:43 CDT 2022
1:mon> t
[link register ] c00000000053ca70 tlb_finish_mmu+0x80/0xd0
[c0000000072878d0] c00000000053ca54 tlb_finish_mmu+0x64/0xd0 (unreliable)
[c000000007287900] c000000000539424 exit_mmap+0xe4/0x2a0
[c0000000072879e0] c00000000019fc1c mmput+0xcc/0x210
[c000000007287a20] c000000000629230 begin_new_exec+0x5e0/0xf40
[c000000007287ae0] c00000000070b3cc load_elf_binary+0x3ac/0x1e00
[c000000007287c10] c000000000627af0 bprm_execve+0x3b0/0xaf0
[c000000007287cd0] c000000000628414 do_execveat_common.isra.0+0x1e4/0x310
[c000000007287d80] c0000000006285…

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Linux Kernel
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.15.53"}]},{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"5.16.0"},{"fixed":"5.18.10"}]}]

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

References

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