CVE-2026-63955

mm/vmalloc: do not trigger BUG() on BH disabled context

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Jul 19, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jul 19, 2026

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Description

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

mm/vmalloc: do not trigger BUG() on BH disabled context

__get_vm_area_node() currently triggers a BUG() if in_interrupt() returns true. However, in_interrupt() also reports true when BH are disabled.

The bridge code can call rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast() with bottom halves disabled:

__vlan_add() -> br_fdb_add_local() spin_lock_bh(&br->hash_lock); <-- Disable BH -> fdb_add_local() -> fdb_create() -> rhashtable_lookup_insert_fast() -> kvmalloc() -> vmalloc() -> __get_vm_area_node() -> BUG_ON(in_interrupt()) spin_unlock_bh(&br->hash_lock)

this triggers the BUG() despite the caller not being in NMI or hard IRQ context.

Replace the in_interrupt() check with in_nmi() || in_hardirq().

Scores

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

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • c6307674ed82c0c57d6e1e3408e84ac449ab8e94 to before ad7eff07b625f53c3fb513b30d7a8c5a79fbc7ceAffected
  • c6307674ed82c0c57d6e1e3408e84ac449ab8e94 to before 04aa71da5f35aacdc9ae9cb5150947daa624f641Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.19Affected
  • before 6.19Not affected
  • 7.0.12 through 7.0.*Not affected
  • 7.1 and laterNot affected

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