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CVE ID:CVE-2021-47491
Description:In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: khugepaged: skip huge page collapse for special files The read- only THP for filesystems will collapse THP for files opened readonly and mapped with VM_EXEC. The intended usecase is to avoid TLB misses for large text segments. But it doesn't restrict the file types so a THP could be collapsed for a non-regular file, for example, block device, if it is opened readonly and mapped with EXEC permission. This may cause bugs, like [1] and [2]. This is definitely not the intended usecase, so just collapse THP for regular files in order to close the attack surface. [shy828301@gmail.com: fix vm_file check [3]]
Test IDs: None available
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2021-47491
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fcb6fce74ffa614d964667110cf1a516c48c6d9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5fcb6fce74ffa614d964667110cf1a516c48c6d9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d67b2a73b8e3a079c355bab3c1aef7d85a044b8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d67b2a73b8e3a079c355bab3c1aef7d85a044b8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4aeaa06d45e90f9b279f0b09de84bd00006e733
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4aeaa06d45e90f9b279f0b09de84bd00006e733




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