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Tracker / CVE-2023-52932

CVE-2023-52932

Medium 5.5

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/swapfile: add cond_resched() in get_swap_pages() The softlockup still occurs in get_swap_pages() under memory pressure. 64 CPU cores, 64GB memory, and 28 zram devices, the disksize of each zram device is 50MB with same priority as si. Use the stress-ng tool to increase memory pressure, causing the system to oom frequently. The plist_for_each_entry_safe() loops in get_swap_pages() could reach tens of thousands of times to find available space (extreme case: cond_resched() is not called in scan_swap_map_slots()). Let's add cond_resched() into get_swap_pages() when failed to find available space to avoid softlockup.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 4.14.306
linux linux_kernel · 4.15 → 4.19.273
linux linux_kernel · 4.20 → 5.4.232
linux linux_kernel · 5.11 → 5.15.93
linux linux_kernel · 5.16 → 6.1.11
linux linux_kernel · 5.5 → 5.10.168

Analysis

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