CVE-2026-46280

lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jun 8, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

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

lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

Patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups".

Two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests. These were mostly reported by Zenghui Yu with special thanks to Lorenzo for analysing and pointing out the problems.

This patch (of 3):

When dmirror_fops_release() is called it frees the dmirror struct but doesn't migrate device private pages back to system memory first. This leaves those pages with a dangling zone_device_data pointer to the freed dmirror.

If a subsequent fault occurs on those pages (eg. during coredump) the dmirror_devmem_fault() callback dereferences the stale pointer causing a kernel panic. This was reported [1] when running mm/ksft_hmm.sh on arm64, where a test failure triggered SIGABRT and the resulting coredump walked the VMAs faulting in the stale device private pages.

Fix this by calling dmirror_device_evict_chunk() for each devmem chunk in dmirror_fops_release() to migrate all device private pages back to system memory before freeing the dmirror struct. The function is moved earlier in the file to avoid a forward declaration.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before 234071b4318feaeb27cd2e4e1b16ef6b055adf89Affected
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before bf477abd448c76bb8ea51c9b4f63a3a17c4b6239Affected
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before 5846715b6382dd4c6a69b35a56ca6115d33bc2a0Affected
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before 38f113f81d3f0adc658a4475dd3ecaec985e21d3Affected
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before 9de1eb0aac2862d6144b8db0ec1388e79f8bc3e1Affected
  • b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882 to before 744dd97752ef1076a8d8672bb0d8aa2c7abc1144Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.8Affected
  • before 5.8Not affected
  • 6.1.176 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.140 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.86 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.27 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.4 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

References

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