CVE-2026-93216

mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 24, 2026
Updated
Oct 21, 2026
Reserved
Sep 17, 2026

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Description

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

mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()

print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:

1: page_memcg_check(page)

2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)

If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.

Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 to before e7c1923c5f30a6953f0540e3171d882ec17b05d3Affected
  • fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 to before a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2beaAffected
  • fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 to before 46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2efAffected
  • fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9 to before 90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3dfAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.18Affected
  • before 5.18Not affected
  • 6.6.160 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.114 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 7.2.4 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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