CVE-2026-89756

EUVD-2026-76668
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()

migrate_pages_batch() unmaps each folio before moving it, and every
unmap runs the mmu_notifier invalidate callbacks.  On KVM hosts
try_to_migrate() ends up in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() ->
tdp_mmu_zap_leafs(), which is expensive, so unmapping a large batch keeps
the CPU busy for a long time.

The loop already calls cond_resched(), but on PREEMPTION kernels that is
a no-op, and involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent state.

A long batch therefore never reports a quiescent state, and the
migrating task (e.g. kcompactd) becomes a Tasks-RCU holdout, stalling the
Tasks-RCU grace period for minutes, which is common at Meta fleet:

  INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
  0000000055349ecc: .. nvcsw: 1157401/1157401 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/56 task:kcompactd0      state:R  running task
  Call Trace:
   tdp_mmu_zap_leafs
   tdp_mmu_next_root
   gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start
   kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start
   __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start
   try_to_migrate_one
   try_to_migrate
   migrate_pages_batch
   migrate_pages
   compact_zone
   compact_node
   kcompactd
   kthread

Use cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() so a quiescent state is reported even
when cond_resched() does nothing.

This has also been discussed at [1]
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTPrimary
UNKNOWN
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: 8.37%
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