CVE-2026-53154

mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Jun 25, 2026
Updated
Jun 25, 2026
Reserved
Jun 9, 2026

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Description

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

mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths

Two sites in mm/hugetlb.c allocate a hugetlb folio via alloc_hugetlb_folio() (consuming a VMA reservation) and then call copy_user_large_folio(), which became int-returning in commit 1cb9dc4b475c ("mm: hwpoison: support recovery from HugePage copy-on-write faults") and can now fail (e.g. -EHWPOISON on a hwpoisoned source page). On the failure path, folio_put() restores the global hugetlb pool count through free_huge_folio(), but the per-VMA reservation map entry is left marked consumed:

- hugetlb_mfill_atomic_pte() resubmission path (UFFDIO_COPY) - copy_hugetlb_page_range() fork-time CoW path when hugetlb_try_dup_anon_rmap() fails (rare: pinned hugetlb anon folio under fork)

User-visible effect: on UFFDIO_COPY into a private hugetlb VMA where the resubmission copy fails, the reservation for that address is leaked from the VMA's reserve map. A subsequent fault at the same address takes the no-reservation path, and under hugetlb pool pressure the task is SIGBUSed at an address it had previously reserved. The fork-time CoW path leaks the same way in the child VMA's reserve map, though it requires the much rarer combination of pinned hugetlb anon page + hwpoisoned source.

Add the missing restore_reserve_on_error() call before folio_put() on both error paths.

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Weaknesses

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e to before 8d6e1dd3ad1340cd8b6d554b7aa93d8f0a1c6d38Affected
  • 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e to before e47bf16af3c45470ea32f2241fa69aefe0dd61bdAffected
  • 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e to before c72469ac0f274bde3f0df60a4584e14a123d0aa6Affected
  • 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e to before 45e33d43243d71d089af42f5077b8213cee6610fAffected
  • 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e to before 40c81856e622a9dc59294a90d169ac07ea25b0b0Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.143 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.94 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.36 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.0.13 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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