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not syncing: panic_on_kmsan set ...\n  CPU: 0 PID: 15049 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G    B             5.15.0-rc2-syzkaller #0\n  Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011\n  Call Trace:\n   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]\n   dump_stack_lvl+0x1ff/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106\n   dump_stack+0x25/0x28 lib/dump_stack.c:113\n   panic+0x44f/0xdeb kernel/panic.c:232\n   kmsan_report+0x2ee/0x300 mm/kmsan/report.c:186\n   __msan_warning+0xd7/0x150 mm/kmsan/instrumentation.c:208\n   __mpol_equal+0x567/0x590 mm/mempolicy.c:2260\n   mpol_equal include/linux/mempolicy.h:105 [inline]\n   vma_merge+0x4a1/0x1e60 mm/mmap.c:1190\n   mbind_range+0xcc8/0x1e80 mm/mempolicy.c:811\n   do_mbind+0xf42/0x15f0 mm/mempolicy.c:1333\n   kernel_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1483 [inline]\n   __do_sys_mbind mm/mempolicy.c:1490 [inline]\n   __se_sys_mbind+0x437/0xb80 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n   __x64_sys_mbind+0x19d/0x200 mm/mempolicy.c:1486\n   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]\n   do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:82\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae"}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["mm/mempolicy.c"],"versions":[{"version":"bda420b985054a3badafef23807c4b4fa38a3dff","lessThan":"9ee4e9ae98f1f262d6fae0d266cfdf3ba2c321d9","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"bda420b985054a3badafef23807c4b4fa38a3dff","lessThan":"6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["mm/mempolicy.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.14.15","lessThanOrEqual":"5.14.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"5.15","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.12","versionEndExcluding":"5.14.15"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.12","versionEndExcluding":"5.15"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee4e9ae98f1f262d6fae0d266cfdf3ba2c321d9"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c"}],"title":"mm/mempolicy: do not allow illegal MPOL_F_NUMA_BALANCING | MPOL_LOCAL in mbind()","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}},"adp":[{"title":"CISA ADP Vulnrichment","metrics":[{"other":{"type":"ssvc","content":{"id":"CVE-2021-47462","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"Exploitation":"none"},{"Automatable":"no"},{"Technical Impact":"partial"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2024-05-22T19:48:07.390031Z"}}}],"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0","shortName":"CISA-ADP","dateUpdated":"2024-06-04T17:13:24.847Z"}},{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108","shortName":"CVE","dateUpdated":"2024-08-04T05:39:59.432Z"},"title":"CVE Program Container","references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ee4e9ae98f1f262d6fae0d266cfdf3ba2c321d9","tags":["x_transferred"]},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6d2aec9e123bb9c49cb5c7fc654f25f81e688e8c","tags":["x_transferred"]}]}]}}