LoongArch: Add architecture specific huge_pte_clear()
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: LoongArch: Add architecture specific huge_pte_clear() When executing mm selftests run_vmtests.sh, there is such an error: BUG: Bad page state in process uffd-unit-tests pfn:00000 page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x0 flags: 0xffff0000002000(reserved|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xffff) raw: 00ffff0000002000 ffffbf0000000008 ffffbf0000000008 0000000000000000 raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_FREE flag(s) set Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq snd_seq_device rfkill vfat fat virtio_balloon efi_pstore virtio_net pstore net_failover failover fuse nfnetlink virtio_scsi virtio_gpu virtio_dma_buf dm_multipath efivarfs CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1913 Comm: uffd-unit-tests Not tainted 6.12.0 #184 Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 2/2/2022 Stack : 900000047c8ac000 0000000000000000 9000000000223a7c 900000047c8ac000 900000047c8af690 900000047c8af698 0000000000000000 900000047c8af7d8 900000047c8af7d0 900000047c8af7d0 900000047c8af5b0 0000000000000001 0000000000000001 900000047c8af698 10b3c7d53da40d26 0000010000000000 0000000000000022 0000000fffffffff fffffffffe000000 ffff800000000000 000000000000002f 0000800000000000 000000017a6d4000 90000000028f8940 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 90000000025aa5e0 9000000002905000 0000000000000000 90000000028f8940 ffff800000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 9000000000223a94 000000012001839c 00000000000000b0 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 0000000000071c1d ... Call Trace: [<9000000000223a94>] show_stack+0x5c/0x180 [<9000000001c3fd64>] dump_stack_lvl+0x6c/0xa0 [<900000000056aa08>] bad_page+0x1a0/0x1f0 [<9000000000574978>] free_unref_folios+0xbf0/0xd20 [<90000000004e65cc>] folios_put_refs+0x1a4/0x2b8 [<9000000000599a0c>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x164/0x260 [<9000000000547698>] tlb_batch_pages_flush+0xa8/0x1c0 [<9000000000547f30>] tlb_finish_mmu+0xa8/0x218 [<9000000000543cb8>] exit_mmap+0x1a0/0x360 [<9000000000247658>] __mmput+0x78/0x200 [<900000000025583c>] do_exit+0x43c/0xde8 [<9000000000256490>] do_group_exit+0x68/0x110 [<9000000000256554>] sys_exit_group+0x1c/0x20 [<9000000001c413b4>] do_syscall+0x94/0x130 [<90000000002216d8>] handle_syscall+0xb8/0x158 Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -16384 On LoongArch system, invalid huge pte entry should be invalid_pte_table or a single _PAGE_HUGE bit rather than a zero value. And it should be the same with invalid pmd entry, since pmd_none() is called by function free_pgd_range() and pmd_none() return 0 by huge_pte_clear(). So single _PAGE_HUGE bit is also treated as a valid pte table and free_pte_range() will be called in free_pmd_range(). free_pmd_range() pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr); do { next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end); if (pmd_none_or_clear_bad(pmd)) continue; free_pte_range(tlb, pmd, addr); } while (pmd++, addr = next, addr != end); Here invalid_pte_table is used for both invalid huge pte entry and pmd entry.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
Not available: CISA has not published SSVC decision points for this record.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 5.19 and later | 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5, 6.13 | Patch available | CNA |
- Linux VendorLinux Affected 5.19 and later Fixed in 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5, 6.13 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Linux (Linux) Fixed in 6.1.120, 6.6.66, 6.12.5, 6.13
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 4 products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-56628
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-8f9p-m3p5-6mr3
- 2026-11-07 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
References
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Sources
- CVE-2024-56628 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-56628 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-8f9p-m3p5-6mr3 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-56628 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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