CVE-2024-49934 — fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name

Affected: Linux

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

fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name

It's observed that a crash occurs during hot-remove a memory device, in which user is accessing the hugetlb. See calltrace as following:

------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 14045 at arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1278 do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 Modules linked in: kmem device_dax cxl_mem cxl_pmem cxl_port cxl_pci dax_hmem dax_pmem nd_pmem cxl_acpi nd_btt cxl_core crc32c_intel nvme virtiofs fuse nvme_core nfit libnvdimm dm_multipath scsi_dh_rdac scsi_dh_emc s mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod CPU: 1 PID: 14045 Comm: daxctl Not tainted 6.10.0-rc2-lizhijian+ #492 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:do_user_addr_fault+0x2a0/0x790 Code: 48 8b 00 a8 04 0f 84 b5 fe ff ff e9 1c ff ff ff 4c 89 e9 4c 89 e2 be 01 00 00 00 bf 02 00 00 00 e8 b5 ef 24 00 e9 42 fe ff ff <0f> 0b 48 83 c4 08 4c 89 ea 48 89 ee 4c 89 e7 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 RSP: 0000:ffffc90000a575f0 EFLAGS: 00010046 RAX: ffff88800c303600 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffffff82504162 RDI: ffffffff824b2c36 RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffffc90000a57658 R13: 0000000000001000 R14: ffff88800bc2e040 R15: 0000000000000000 FS: 00007f51cb57d880(0000) GS:ffff88807fd00000…

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CVE-2024-49934 — fs/inode: Prevent dump_mapping() accessing invalid dentry.d_name.name