CVE-2026-53207

MEDIUM

mm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in get_huge_page_for_hwpoison

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in get_huge_page_for_hwpoison Two concurrent madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) calls on the same hugetlb page can trigger a recursive spinlock self-deadlock (AA deadlock) on hugetlb_lock when racing with a concurrent unmap: thread#0 thread#1 -------- -------- madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON) -> poisons the folio successfully madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON) unmap(folio) try_memory_failure_hugetlb get_huge_page_for_hwpoison spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock) <- held __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison hugetlb_update_hwpoison() -> MF_HUGETLB_FOLIO_PRE_POISONED goto out: folio_put() refcount: 1 -> 0 free_huge_folio() spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock) -> AA DEADLOCK! The out: path in __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison() calls folio_put() to drop the GUP reference while the hugetlb_lock is still held by the hugetlb.c wrapper get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). If concurrent unmap has released the page table mapping reference, folio_put() drops the folio refcount to zero, triggering free_huge_folio() which attempts to re-acquire the non-recursive hugetlb_lock. Fix this by moving hugetlb_lock acquisition from the hugetlb.c wrapper into get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). Place spin_unlock_irq() before the folio_put() at the out: label so the folio is always released outside the lock. [[email protected]: fix race, rename label per Miaohe]

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0010
EPSS Percentile 1.0%
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-667
Status published
Products (24)
linux/Kernel 5.18.0 - 6.1.176linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.18.36linux
linux/Kernel 6.19.0 - 7.0.13linux
linux/Kernel 6.2.0 - 6.6.143linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.94linux
Linux/Linux < 5.18
Linux/Linux 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 - 3c2d42b8ee345b17a4ba56b0f6492d1ff4c1178e
Linux/Linux 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 - 77b73b54801ae7137479c141fd0473a491c1dc48
Linux/Linux 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 - a33bfed648c10f5a1519981dbfad80841191edc8
Linux/Linux 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 - bf7ba8f96c258c30393814491930ae4ecdc5fe5e
... and 14 more
Published Jun 25, 2026
Tracked Since Jun 25, 2026