CVE-2026-89500

ring-buffer: Make cpu_buffer::free_page a buffer_data_read_page

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Sep 11, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

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

ring-buffer: Make cpu_buffer::free_page a buffer_data_read_page

Discarding a cached reader page after a concurrent ring buffer resize uses the new global subbuf_order for the free_pages() call. This mismatched order may crashes the kernel or leaks memory because the cached page was allocated under the old size.

Save the actual free_page order alongside the page address to ensure we always refer to the correct value and do not rely on the potentially stalled cpu_buffer->subbuf_order value. The simplest is to make free_page a buffer_data_read_page which already covers exactly what we need: a page address and a page order.

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
  • 8e7b58c27b3c567316a51079b375b846f9223bba to before d8f52dc3c3f1f987d8cf920ccd8d66590870bf3fAffected
  • 8e7b58c27b3c567316a51079b375b846f9223bba to before a1dabe68fb53730bc0be60c5dbfd3f4c560084e7Affected
  • 8e7b58c27b3c567316a51079b375b846f9223bba to before d787d509bdf6c88c85e095247daf7456cb7fb772Affected
  • 8e7b58c27b3c567316a51079b375b846f9223bba to before 7a1fb95de5404134f8758c1295ce88986bdf117cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.112 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.18.51 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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