CVE-2026-23225

sched/mmcid: Don't assume CID is CPU owned on mode switch

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Feb 18, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

sched/mmcid: Don't assume CID is CPU owned on mode switch

Shinichiro reported a KASAN UAF, which is actually an out of bounds access in the MMCID management code.

CPU0 CPU1 T1 runs in userspace T0: fork(T4) -> Switch to per CPU CID mode fixup() set MM_CID_TRANSIT on T1/CPU1 T4 exit() T3 exit() T2 exit() T1 exit() switch to per task mode ---> Out of bounds access.

As T1 has not scheduled after T0 set the TRANSIT bit, it exits with the TRANSIT bit set. sched_mm_cid_remove_user() clears the TRANSIT bit in the task and drops the CID, but it does not touch the per CPU storage. That's functionally correct because a CID is only owned by the CPU when the ONCPU bit is set, which is mutually exclusive with the TRANSIT flag.

Now sched_mm_cid_exit() assumes that the CID is CPU owned because the prior mode was per CPU. It invokes mm_drop_cid_on_cpu() which clears the not set ONCPU bit and then invokes clear_bit() with an insanely large bit number because TRANSIT is set (bit 29).

Prevent that by actually validating that the CID is CPU owned in mm_drop_cid_on_cpu().

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 007d84287c7466ca68a5809b616338214dc5b77b to before 81f29975631db8a78651b3140ecd0f88ffafc476Affected
  • 007d84287c7466ca68a5809b616338214dc5b77b to before 1e83ccd5921a610ef409a7d4e56db27822b4ea39Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.19Affected
  • before 6.19Not affected
  • 6.19.1 through 6.19.*Not affected
  • 7.0 and laterNot affected

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