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

mm/gup: handle NULL pages in unpin_user_pages()

The recent addition of "pofs" (pages or folios) handling to gup has a
flaw: it assumes that unpin_user_pages() handles NULL pages in the pages**
array. That's not the case, as I discovered when I ran on a new
configuration on my test machine.

Fix this by skipping NULL pages in unpin_user_pages(), just like
unpin_folios() already does.

Details: when booting on x86 with "numa=fake=2 movablecore=4G" on Linux
6.12, and running this:

tools/testing/selftests/mm/gup_longterm

...I get the following crash:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008
RIP: 0010:sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
...
Call Trace:

? __die_body+0x66/0xb0
? page_fault_oops+0x30c/0x3b0
? do_user_addr_fault+0x6c3/0x720
? irqentry_enter+0x34/0x60
? exc_page_fault+0x68/0x100
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x3a/0x2d0
unpin_user_pages+0x24/0xe0
check_and_migrate_movable_pages_or_folios+0x455/0x4b0
__gup_longterm_locked+0x3bf/0x820
? mmap_read_lock_killable+0x12/0x50
? __pfx_mmap_read_lock_killable+0x10/0x10
pin_user_pages+0x66/0xa0
gup_test_ioctl+0x358/0xb20
__se_sys_ioctl+0x6b/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-56612
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/69d319450d1c651f3b05cd820ff285fdd810c032
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1268be280d8e484ab3606d7476edd0f14bb9961