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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.5

CVE-2024-40914 json

mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio

published 2024-07-12 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-38725

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio

When I did memory failure tests recently, below panic occurs:

kernel BUG at include/linux/mm.h:1135! invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI CPU: 9 PID: 137 Comm: kswapd1 Not tainted 6.9.0-rc4-00491-gd5ce28f156fe-dirty #14 RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0 RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0 RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492 R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 Call Trace: <TASK> do_shrink_slab+0x14f/0x6a0 shrink_slab+0xca/0x8c0 shrink_node+0x2d0/0x7d0 balance_pgdat+0x33a/0x720 kswapd+0x1f3/0x410 kthread+0xd5/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> Modules linked in: mce_inject hwpoison_inject ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- RIP: 0010:shrink_huge_zero_page_scan+0x168/0x1a0 RSP: 0018:ffff9933c6c57bd0 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 000000000000003e RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffff88f61fc5c9c8 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff88f61fc5c9c0 RBP: ffffcd7c446b0000 R08: ffffffff9a9405f0 R09: 0000000000005492 R10: 00000000000030ea R11: ffffffff9a9405f0 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88e703c4ac00 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88f61fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 000055f4da6e9878 CR3: 0000000c71048000 CR4: 00000000000006f0

The root cause is that HWPoison flag will be set for huge_zero_folio without increasing the folio refcnt. But then unpoison_memory() will decrease the folio refcnt unexpectedly as it appears like a successfully hwpoisoned folio leading to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_ref_count(page) == 0) when releasing huge_zero_folio.

Skip unpoisoning huge_zero_folio in unpoison_memory() to fix this issue. We're not prepared to unpoison huge_zero_folio yet.

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 5.15.162, 5.18, 6.1.95, 6.6.35, 6.9.6, 6.10
  • linux Debian 12 6.1.99-1
  • linux Debian 14, Debian 13 6.9.7-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2024-40914

  • linux Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-121.131
  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-44.44
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1069.75
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1015.16
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1068.76
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1014.16
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 5.15.0-1066.72
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1010.13

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2024-40914

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  • kernel RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • rv RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • perf RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • rtla RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • bpftool RHEL 9 7.3.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • libperf RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • kernel-rt RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • kernel-64k RHEL 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2024:5928RHSA-2024:6267RHSA-2024:6268

  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-24.1.21.4
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0_Update_4 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.2
  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-22.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-22.1
  • kernel-livepatch-MICRO-6-0-RT_Update_4 Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 1-1.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2025:20164-1SUSE-SU-2025:20247-1SUSE-SU-2025:20163-1SUSE-SU-2025:20246-1SUSE-SU-2024:4387-1SUSE-SU-2024:4318-1

  • kernel AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • rv AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • perf AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • rtla AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • bpftool AlmaLinux 9 7.3.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • libperf AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • kernel-rt AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4
  • kernel-64k AlmaLinux 9 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4

almalinux advisories ALSA-2024:5928

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-40914 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: mm/huge_memory: don&#39;t unpoison huge_zero_folio

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 kernel-rt, kernel-rt-kvm, kernel-rt-core, kernel-rt-modules, kernel-rt-debug-kvm, kernel-rt-debug-core, +12 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder EUS (v.9.2) kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) rv 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, perf 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, rtla 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-64k-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5928
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2) perf 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, rtla 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-64k-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-debug-devel-matched 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, +5 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 9) bpftool 7.3.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-64k 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-tools 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, python3-perf 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, +28 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5928
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS EUS (v.9.2) bpftool 7.0.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-64k 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, kernel-tools 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, python3-perf 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2, +28 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6267
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux CRB (v. 9) libperf 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-s390x 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-x86_64 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-aarch64 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-debuginfo-common-ppc64le 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux NFV (v. 9) kernel-rt 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-kvm 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-kvm 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5928
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  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time EUS (v.9.2) kernel-rt 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-modules-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-debug-modules 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, +4 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Real Time for NFV EUS (v.9.2) kernel-rt 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-kvm 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-debug-kvm 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-284.82.1.rt14.367.el9_2, +6 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6268
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux RT (v. 9) kernel-rt 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-modules-core 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, kernel-rt-debug-modules 5.14.0-427.33.1.el9_4, +4 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5928
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.2) kernel-doc 5.14.0-284.82.1.el9_2
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

Classification

Technology feeds

References

Sources

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