{"cve":"CVE-2024-50022","nvd":{"published":"2024-10-21T20:15:15.690","modified":"2026-06-17T08:03:23.943","status":"Modified","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndevice-dax: correct pgoff align in dax_set_mapping()\n\npgoff should be aligned using ALIGN_DOWN() instead of ALIGN().  Otherwise,\nvmf->address not aligned to fault_size will be aligned to the next\nalignment, that can result in memory failure getting the wrong address.\n\nIt's a subtle situation that only can be observed in\npage_mapped_in_vma() after the page is page fault handled by\ndev_dax_huge_fault.  Generally, there is little chance to perform\npage_mapped_in_vma in dev-dax's page unless in specific error injection\nto the dax device to trigger an MCE - memory-failure.  In that case,\npage_mapped_in_vma() will be triggered to determine which task is\naccessing the failure address and kill that task in the end.\n\n\nWe used self-developed dax device (which is 2M aligned mapping) , to\nperform error injection to random address.  It turned out that error\ninjected to non-2M-aligned address was causing endless MCE until panic.\nBecause page_mapped_in_vma() kept resulting wrong address and the task\naccessing the failure address was never killed properly:\n\n\n[ 3783.719419] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3784.049006] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3784.049190] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3784.448042] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3784.448186] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3784.792026] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3784.792179] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3785.162502] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3785.162633] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3785.461116] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3785.461247] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3785.764730] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3785.764859] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3786.042128] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3786.042259] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3786.464293] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3786.464423] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3786.818090] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3786.818217] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n[ 3787.085297] mce: Uncorrected hardware memory error in user-access at \n200c9742380\n[ 3787.085424] Memory failure: 0x200c9742: recovery action for dax page: \nRecovered\n\nIt took us several weeks to pinpoint this problem,  but we eventually\nused bpftrace to trace the page fault and mce address and successfully\nidentified the issue.\n\n\nJoao added:\n\n; Likely we never reproduce in production because we always pin\n: device-dax regions in the region align they provide (Qemu does\n: similarly with prealloc in hugetlb/file backed memory).  I think this\n: bug requires that we touch *unpinned* device-dax regions unaligned to\n: the device-dax selected alignment (page size i.e.  4K/2M/1G)","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","score":5.5},"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7fcbd9785d4c17ea533c42f20a9083a83f301fa6","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9c4198dfdca818c5ce19c764d90eabd156bbc6da","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b822007e8db341d6f175c645ed79866db501ad86","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e877427d218159ac29c9326100920d24330c9ee6","https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/01/msg00001.html"],"products":["linux:linux_kernel"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:56:33.105311382+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2024-50022","score":0.00265,"percentile":0.18473,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). 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