mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-72213
HIGH 7.1

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Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.16 % · centile 6 ()
État
PUBLISHED
Publiée
Mise à jour
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Linux
Statut NVD
Received

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch In alloc_hugetlb_folio(), a single h_cg pointer is used for both the rsvd and non-rsvd hugetlb cgroup charges. When map_chg is set, hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd() stores the charged cgroup in h_cg, but the immediately following hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() overwrites h_cg with the non-rsvd cgroup pointer. As a result, hugetlb_cgroup_commit_charge_rsvd() stores the wrong (non-rsvd) cgroup pointer into the folio's rsvd slot. When the folio is later freed, free_huge_folio() unconditionally calls both hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio() and hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio_rsvd(). The rsvd uncharge reads back the wrong cgroup from the folio and decrements a counter that was never charged for that cgroup, causing a page_counter underflow: page_counter underflow: -512 nr_pages=512 WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_cancel Fix this by introducing a separate h_cg_rsvd pointer exclusively for the rsvd charge path, keeping the rsvd and non-rsvd charges fully independent through their charge, commit, and error uncharge paths.

Références

Scores

VersionScoreVecteurÉvalué par
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HLinux
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 (Secondary)

Références européennes

Avis du CERT-FR

Produits affectés

ProduitVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa < 043c509f2488033c68c46d2de2af082fcd568612 ; affected 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa < 5c32ae4a91fb5f4941328e0c1720a7fa4189c3bd ; affected 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa < 1697d253f51cf5e3825a3423ff49e128a3502ab2 ; affected 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa < b785f2bd9496facedc0a031be09cddcd1d3c84d3 ; affected 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa < 15807d0ddde37407af72859426b654f3d1972b00
Linux · Linuxaffected 5.7 ; unaffected 0 < 5.7 ; unaffected 6.6.160 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.101 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.40 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 7.1.5 ≤ 7.1.*

Sources

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CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD