CVE-2026-53154

MEDIUM

mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths Two sites in mm/hugetlb.c allocate a hugetlb folio via alloc_hugetlb_folio() (consuming a VMA reservation) and then call copy_user_large_folio(), which became int-returning in commit 1cb9dc4b475c ("mm: hwpoison: support recovery from HugePage copy-on-write faults") and can now fail (e.g. -EHWPOISON on a hwpoisoned source page). On the failure path, folio_put() restores the global hugetlb pool count through free_huge_folio(), but the per-VMA reservation map entry is left marked consumed: - hugetlb_mfill_atomic_pte() resubmission path (UFFDIO_COPY) - copy_hugetlb_page_range() fork-time CoW path when hugetlb_try_dup_anon_rmap() fails (rare: pinned hugetlb anon folio under fork) User-visible effect: on UFFDIO_COPY into a private hugetlb VMA where the resubmission copy fails, the reservation for that address is leaked from the VMA's reserve map. A subsequent fault at the same address takes the no-reservation path, and under hugetlb pool pressure the task is SIGBUSed at an address it had previously reserved. The fork-time CoW path leaks the same way in the child VMA's reserve map, though it requires the much rarer combination of pinned hugetlb anon page + hwpoisoned source. Add the missing restore_reserve_on_error() call before folio_put() on both error paths.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 2.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-772
Status published
Products (18)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.36linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.4.0 - 6.6.143linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.94linux
Linux/Linux < 6.4
Linux/Linux 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e - 40c81856e622a9dc59294a90d169ac07ea25b0b0
Linux/Linux 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e - 45e33d43243d71d089af42f5077b8213cee6610f
Linux/Linux 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e - 8d6e1dd3ad1340cd8b6d554b7aa93d8f0a1c6d38
Linux/Linux 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e - c72469ac0f274bde3f0df60a4584e14a123d0aa6
Linux/Linux 1cb9dc4b475c7418f925ab0c97b6750007d9f52e - e47bf16af3c45470ea32f2241fa69aefe0dd61bd
... and 8 more
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026