CVE-2026-89758

mm/mempolicy: skip non-present PMDs when queueing folios

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:

mm/mempolicy: skip non-present PMDs when queueing folios

Patch series "mm: handle device-private PMDs in walk callbacks", v3.

Since commit 368076f52ebe ("mm/huge_memory: add device-private THP support to PMD operations") a PMD may hold a device-private swap entry whenever an HMM-based GPU driver migrates an anonymous THP folio to device memory via migrate_vma_pages().

pmd_trans_huge_lock() succeeds for such PMDs (pmd_is_huge() returns true for any non-present, non-none huge PMD), so several MM walk callbacks that used to assume present THP or migration entry are now reachable with a device-private PMD. The results range from a VM_BUG_ON() firing on debug kernels, to an oops on a bogus vmemmap dereference, to silently isolating an unrelated live folio from LRU in the aliasing case.

This patch (of 3):

queue_folios_pmd() is called under pmd_trans_huge_lock(), whose pmd_is_huge() check returns true for any non-present, non-none PMD softleaf. Passing such a PMD to pmd_folio() treats the softleaf encoding as a hardware PFN and can return a bogus folio pointer.

Mirror queue_folios_pte_range(): handle non-present entries before looking up a folio. Keep migration entries counted as failures, but skip other non-present PMDs such as device-private entries.

Potential trigger: an HMM-based GPU driver migrates an anonymous THP folio to device memory via migrate_vma_pages(), leaving a device-private PMD. Userspace then calls mbind(), migrate_pages() or set_mempolicy_home_node() on that range.

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
  • 368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149 to before 3d927093b2add7ced588a926c3dc5d7a83f18596Affected
  • 368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149 to before 2858b4027f491e6fdb8ee2d8923798b619bf2791Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.19Affected
  • before 6.19Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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