CVE-2026-53162

HIGH

memcg: use round-robin victim selection in refill_stock

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: use round-robin victim selection in refill_stock Harry Yoo reported that get_random_u32_below() is not safe to call in the nmi context and memcg charge draining can happen in nmi context. More specifically get_random_u32_below() is neither reentrant- nor NMI-safe: it acquires a per-cpu local_lock via local_lock_irqsave() on the batched_entropy_u32 state. An NMI that lands on a CPU mid-update of the ChaCha batch state and recurses into the random subsystem would corrupt that state. The memcg_stock local_trylock prevents re-entry on the percpu stock itself, but cannot protect an unrelated subsystem's per-cpu lock. Replace the random pick with a per-cpu round-robin counter stored in memcg_stock_pcp and serialized by the same local_trylock that already guards cached[] and nr_pages[]. No atomics, no random calls, no extra locks needed.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.16.0 - 6.18.36linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.13linux
Linux/Linux < 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.18.36 - 6.18.*
Linux/Linux 7.0.13 - 7.0.*
Linux/Linux 7.1
Linux/Linux f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d - 00731bd7e18f182a32ca54d6b176eaa470b51ed7
Linux/Linux f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d - 89bd8215e25aa6999cc51696da418e0d422bc5e0
Linux/Linux f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d - c0cafe24d3f6534294c4b2bc2d47734ff7cbd313
... and 2 more
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026