CVE-2022-49554

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Race Condition in zsmalloc Asynchronous zspage Free

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: zsmalloc: fix races between asynchronous zspage free and page migration The asynchronous zspage free worker tries to lock a zspage's entire page list without defending against page migration. Since pages which haven't yet been locked can concurrently migrate off the zspage page list while lock_zspage() churns away, lock_zspage() can suffer from a few different lethal races. It can lock a page which no longer belongs to the zspage and unsafely dereference page_private(), it can unsafely dereference a torn pointer to the next page (since there's a data race), and it can observe a spurious NULL pointer to the next page and thus not lock all of the zspage's pages (since a single page migration will reconstruct the entire page list, and create_page_chain() unconditionally zeroes out each list pointer in the process). Fix the races by using migrate_read_lock() in lock_zspage() to synchronize with page migration.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.7
EPSS 0.0018
EPSS Percentile 7.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-362
Status published
Products (26)
linux/Kernel 4.14.0 - 4.14.282linux
linux/Kernel 4.15.0 - 4.19.246linux
linux/Kernel 4.20.0 - 5.4.197linux
linux/Kernel 5.11.0 - 5.15.45linux
linux/Kernel 5.16.0 - 5.17.13linux
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 5.18.2linux
linux/Kernel 5.5.0 - 5.10.120linux
Linux/Linux < 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14
Linux/Linux 4.14.282 - 4.14.*
... and 16 more
Published Feb 26, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026