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Name CVE-2022-49964 First vendor Publication 2025-06-18
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2025-06-18

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

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Detail

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

arm64: cacheinfo: Fix incorrect assignment of signed error value to unsigned fw_level

Though acpi_find_last_cache_level() always returned signed value and the document states it will return any errors caused by lack of a PPTT table, it never returned negative values before.

Commit 0c80f9e165f8 ("ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage") however changed it by returning -ENOENT if no PPTT was found. The value returned from acpi_find_last_cache_level() is then assigned to unsigned fw_level.

It will result in the number of cache leaves calculated incorrectly as a huge value which will then cause the following warning from __alloc_pages as the order would be great than MAX_ORDER because of incorrect and huge cache leaves value.

| WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at mm/page_alloc.c:5407 __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314
| Modules linked in:
| CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-10393-g7c2a8d3ac4c0 #73
| pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
| pc : __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314
| lr : alloc_pages+0xe8/0x318
| Call trace:
| __alloc_pages+0x74/0x314
| alloc_pages+0xe8/0x318
| kmalloc_order_trace+0x68/0x1dc
| __kmalloc+0x240/0x338
| detect_cache_attributes+0xe0/0x56c
| update_siblings_masks+0x38/0x284
| store_cpu_topology+0x78/0x84
| smp_prepare_cpus+0x48/0x134
| kernel_init_freeable+0xc4/0x14c
| kernel_init+0x2c/0x1b4
| ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix the same by changing fw_level to be signed integer and return the error from init_cache_level() early in case of error.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-49964

Sources (Detail)

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1668c38ef2e5bb80dbee88afcecfcdc3e7abc2aa
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29906311b351e5398aff2c5dc209f8b6c9d6a410
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43b9af72751a98cb9c074b170fc244714aeb59d5
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a754ee1c66bd0a23e613f0bf865053b29cb90e16
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e75d18cecbb3805895d8ed64da4f78575ec96043
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fcab25a6b0ace130589d810390d1ce3698b53604
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Date Informations
2025-06-18 17:20:35
  • First insertion