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.
References
Configurations
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History
03 Oct 2025, 14:21
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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First Time |
Linux linux Kernel
Linux |
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CVSS |
v2 : v3 : |
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5 |
CWE | NVD-CWE-noinfo | |
CPE | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:rc7:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:5.18:-:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d73477af964dbd7396163a13817baf13940bca9 - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/688bb46ad339497b5b7f527b6636d2afe04b46af - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2494506f30675245a3e6787281f79601af087bf - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d72b7711919de49d92a67dfc844a6cf4c23dd794 - Patch | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6f86f4b40855a130a19aa589f9ba7f650423f4 - Patch |
21 Nov 2024, 09:31
Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0d73477af964dbd7396163a13817baf13940bca9 - | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/688bb46ad339497b5b7f527b6636d2afe04b46af - | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2494506f30675245a3e6787281f79601af087bf - | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d72b7711919de49d92a67dfc844a6cf4c23dd794 - | |
References | () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe6f86f4b40855a130a19aa589f9ba7f650423f4 - | |
Summary |
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12 Jul 2024, 16:34
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New CVE |
Information
Published : 2024-07-12 13:15
Updated : 2025-10-03 14:21
NVD link : CVE-2024-40914
Mitre link : CVE-2024-40914
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-40914
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Products Affected
linux
- linux_kernel
CWE