CVE-2022-49744

/// Technical description

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

mm/uffd: fix pte marker when fork() without fork event

Patch series "mm: Fixes on pte markers".

Patch 1 resolves the syzkiller report from Pengfei.

Patch 2 further harden pte markers when used with the recent swapin error

markers. The major case is we should persist a swapin error marker after

fork(), so child shouldn't read a corrupted page.

This patch (of 2):

When fork(), dst_vma is not guaranteed to have VM_UFFD_WP even if src may

have it and has pte marker installed. The warning is improper along with

the comment. The right thing is to inherit the pte marker when needed, or

keep the dst pte empty.

A vague guess is this happened by an accident when there's the prior patch

to introduce src/dst vma into this helper during the uffd-wp feature got

developed and I probably messed up in the rebase, since if we replace

dst_vma with src_vma the warning & comment it all makes sense too.

Hugetlb did exactly the ri

/// Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories, patches, and mitigation guidance. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

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