CVE-2026-43404
EUVD-2026-2871008.05.2026, 15:16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: Fix a hmm_range_fault() livelock / starvation problem If hmm_range_fault() fails a folio_trylock() in do_swap_page, trying to acquire the lock of a device-private folio for migration, to ram, the function will spin until it succeeds grabbing the lock. However, if the process holding the lock is depending on a work item to be completed, which is scheduled on the same CPU as the spinning hmm_range_fault(), that work item might be starved and we end up in a livelock / starvation situation which is never resolved. This can happen, for example if the process holding the device-private folio lock is stuck in migrate_device_unmap()->lru_add_drain_all() sinc lru_add_drain_all() requires a short work-item to be run on all online cpus to complete. A prerequisite for this to happen is: a) Both zone device and system memory folios are considered in migrate_device_unmap(), so that there is a reason to call lru_add_drain_all() for a system memory folio while a folio lock is held on a zone device folio. b) The zone device folio has an initial mapcount > 1 which causes at least one migration PTE entry insertion to be deferred to try_to_migrate(), which can happen after the call to lru_add_drain_all(). c) No or voluntary only preemption. This all seems pretty unlikely to happen, but indeed is hit by the "xe_exec_system_allocator" igt test. Resolve this by waiting for the folio to be unlocked if the folio_trylock() fails in do_swap_page(). Rename migration_entry_wait_on_locked() to softleaf_entry_wait_unlock() and update its documentation to indicate the new use-case. Future code improvements might consider moving the lru_add_drain_all() call in migrate_device_unmap() to be called *after* all pages have migration entries inserted. That would eliminate also b) above. v2: - Instead of a cond_resched() in hmm_range_fault(), eliminate the problem by waiting for the folio to be unlocked in do_swap_page() (Alistair Popple, Andrew Morton) v3: - Add a stub migration_entry_wait_on_locked() for the !CONFIG_MIGRATION case. (Kernel Test Robot) v4: - Rename migrate_entry_wait_on_locked() to softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked() and update docs (Alistair Popple) v5: - Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() for the !CONFIG_MIGRATION version of softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked(). - Modify wording around function names in the commit message (Andrew Morton) (cherry picked from commit a69d1ab971a624c6f112cea61536569d579c3215)Enginsight
Affected Products (NVD)
| Vendor | Product | Version |
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| linux | linux_kernel | 6.15 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.18.19 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.19 ≤ 𝑥 < 6.19.9 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0:rc1 |
| linux | linux_kernel | 7.0:rc2 |
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= Vulnerable software versions
Debian Releases
Amazon Linux Releases
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| bpftool6.18 |
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| bpftool6.18-debuginfo |
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| kernel-livepatch-6.18.20-20.229 |
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| kernel6.18 |
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| kernel6.18-debuginfo |
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| kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-aarch64 |
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| kernel6.18-debuginfo-common-x86_64 |
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| kernel6.18-devel |
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| kernel6.18-headers |
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| kernel6.18-libbpf |
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| kernel6.18-libbpf-debuginfo |
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| kernel6.18-libbpf-devel |
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| kernel6.18-libbpf-static |
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| kernel6.18-modules-extra |
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| kernel6.18-modules-extra-common |
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| kernel6.18-tools |
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| kernel6.18-tools-debuginfo |
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| kernel6.18-tools-devel |
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| perf6.18 |
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| perf6.18-debuginfo |
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| python3-perf6.18 |
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| python3-perf6.18-debuginfo |
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