CVE-2026-31654 (GCVE-0-2026-31654)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-24 14:45 – Updated: 2026-05-11 22:12
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Title
mm/vma: fix memory leak in __mmap_region()
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vma: fix memory leak in __mmap_region() commit 605f6586ecf7 ("mm/vma: do not leak memory when .mmap_prepare swaps the file") handled the success path by skipping get_file() via file_doesnt_need_get, but missed the error path. When /dev/zero is mmap'd with MAP_SHARED, mmap_zero_prepare() calls shmem_zero_setup_desc() which allocates a new shmem file to back the mapping. If __mmap_new_vma() subsequently fails, this replacement file is never fput()'d - the original is released by ksys_mmap_pgoff(), but nobody releases the new one. Add fput() for the swapped file in the error path. Reproducible with fault injection. FAULT_INJECTION: forcing a failure. name failslab, interval 1, probability 0, space 0, times 1 CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 366 Comm: syz.7.14 Not tainted 7.0.0-rc6 #2 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC v2 (i440FX + PIIX, arch_caps fix, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x164/0x1f0 should_fail_ex+0x525/0x650 should_failslab+0xdf/0x140 kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x78/0x630 vm_area_alloc+0x24/0x160 __mmap_region+0xf6b/0x2660 mmap_region+0x2eb/0x3a0 do_mmap+0xc79/0x1240 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x252/0x4c0 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xf8/0x120 __x64_sys_mmap+0x12a/0x190 do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e </TASK> kmemleak: 1 new suspected memory leaks (see /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak) BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff8881118aca80 (size 360): comm "syz.7.14", pid 366, jiffies 4294913255 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 ad 4e ad de ff ff ff ff 00 00 00 00 .....N.......... ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c0 28 4d ae ff ff ff ff .........(M..... backtrace (crc db0f53bc): kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3ab/0x630 alloc_empty_file+0x5a/0x1e0 alloc_file_pseudo+0x135/0x220 __shmem_file_setup+0x274/0x420 shmem_zero_setup_desc+0x9c/0x170 mmap_zero_prepare+0x123/0x140 __mmap_region+0xdda/0x2660 mmap_region+0x2eb/0x3a0 do_mmap+0xc79/0x1240 vm_mmap_pgoff+0x252/0x4c0 ksys_mmap_pgoff+0xf8/0x120 __x64_sys_mmap+0x12a/0x190 do_syscall_64+0xa9/0x580 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Found by syzkaller.
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Linux Linux Affected: 605f6586ecf78395f0185ab24c368fb46a06e434 , < 61fc8eaf2ab214b32c7bce52597c80cf0ca41ada (git)
Affected: 605f6586ecf78395f0185ab24c368fb46a06e434 , < 894f99eb535edc4514f756818f3c4f688ba53a59 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.19
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.19 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19.13 , ≤ 6.19.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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