CVE-2024-40950

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: huge_memory: fix misused mapping_large_folio_support() for anon folios When I did a large folios split test, a WARNING "[ 5059.122759][ T166] Cannot split file folio to non-0 order" was triggered. But the test cases are only for anonmous folios. while mapping_large_folio_support() is only reasonable for page cache folios. In split_huge_page_to_list_to_order(), the folio passed to mapping_large_folio_support() maybe anonmous folio. The folio_test_anon() check is missing. So the split of the anonmous THP is failed. This is also the same for shmem_mapping(). We'd better add a check for both. But the shmem_mapping() in __split_huge_page() is not involved, as for anonmous folios, the end parameter is set to -1, so (head[i].index >= end) is always false. shmem_mapping() is not called. Also add a VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() in mapping_large_folio_support() for anon mapping, So we can detect the wrong use more easily. THP folios maybe exist in the pagecache even the file system doesn't support large folio, it is because when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is enabled, khugepaged will try to collapse read-only file-backed pages to THP. But the mapping does not actually support multi order large folios properly. Using /sys/kernel/debug/split_huge_pages to verify this, with this patch, large anon THP is successfully split and the warning is ceased.

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3cPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491aPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5df493a99fcf887133cf01d23cd4bebb6d385d3cPatch
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6a50c9b512f7734bc356f4bd47885a6f7c98491aPatch

Published

Jul 12, 2024

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Analyzed

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