linux-cve-announce - CVE-2022-49992: mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match

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Message-ID: <2025061825-CVE-2022-49992-c5f0@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2025 13:00:57 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2022-49992: mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

mm/mprotect: only reference swap pfn page if type match

Yu Zhao reported a bug after the commit "mm/swap: Add swp_offset_pfn() to
fetch PFN from swap entry" added a check in swp_offset_pfn() for swap type [1]:

  kernel BUG at include/linux/swapops.h:117!
  CPU: 46 PID: 5245 Comm: EventManager_De Tainted: G S         O L 6.0.0-dbg-DEV #2
  RIP: 0010:pfn_swap_entry_to_page+0x72/0xf0
  Code: c6 48 8b 36 48 83 fe ff 74 53 48 01 d1 48 83 c1 08 48 8b 09 f6
  c1 01 75 7b 66 90 48 89 c1 48 8b 09 f6 c1 01 74 74 5d c3 eb 9e <0f> 0b
  48 ba ff ff ff ff 03 00 00 00 eb ae a9 ff 0f 00 00 75 13 48
  RSP: 0018:ffffa59e73fabb80 EFLAGS: 00010282
  RAX: 00000000ffffffe8 RBX: 0c00000000000000 RCX: ffffcd5440000000
  RDX: 1ffffffffff7a80a RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0c0000000000042b
  RBP: ffffa59e73fabb80 R08: ffff9965ca6e8bb8 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: ffffffffa5a2f62d R11: 0000030b372e9fff R12: ffff997b79db5738
  R13: 000000000000042b R14: 0c0000000000042b R15: 1ffffffffff7a80a
  FS:  00007f549d1bb700(0000) GS:ffff99d3cf680000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
  CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
  CR2: 0000440d035b3180 CR3: 0000002243176004 CR4: 00000000003706e0
  DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
  DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   change_pte_range+0x36e/0x880
   change_p4d_range+0x2e8/0x670
   change_protection_range+0x14e/0x2c0
   mprotect_fixup+0x1ee/0x330
   do_mprotect_pkey+0x34c/0x440
   __x64_sys_mprotect+0x1d/0x30

It triggers because pfn_swap_entry_to_page() could be called upon e.g. a
genuine swap entry.

Fix it by only calling it when it's a write migration entry where the page*
is used.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAOUHufaVC2Za-p8m0aiHw6YkheDcrO-C3wRGixwDS32VTS+k1w@mail.gmail.com/

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2022-49992 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 6c287605fd56466e645693eff3ae7c08fba56e0a and fixed in 5.19.6 with commit 5fcf81e308d1f4ae95f31690d2a80b7061385ff9
	Issue introduced in 5.19 with commit 6c287605fd56466e645693eff3ae7c08fba56e0a and fixed in 6.0 with commit 3d2f78f08cd8388035ac375e731ec1ac1b79b09d

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2022-49992
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	mm/mprotect.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fcf81e308d1f4ae95f31690d2a80b7061385ff9
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d2f78f08cd8388035ac375e731ec1ac1b79b09d