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CVE-2026-46035 (GCVE-0-2026-46035)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:56 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:49
VLAI
Title
mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP On UP kernels (!CONFIG_SMP), spin_trylock() is a no-op that unconditionally succeeds even when the lock is already held. As a result, alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() called from NMI context can re-enter rmqueue() and acquire the zone lock that the interrupted context is already holding, corrupting the freelists. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP, the following BUG is triggered with the slub_kunit test module: BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kunit_try_catch/243 [...] Call Trace: <NMI> dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0x60 do_raw_spin_trylock+0x41/0x50 _raw_spin_trylock+0x24/0x50 rmqueue.isra.0+0x2a9/0xa70 get_page_from_freelist+0xeb/0x450 alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof+0x111/0x1e0 allocate_slab+0x42a/0x500 ___slab_alloc+0xa7/0x4c0 kmalloc_nolock_noprof+0x164/0x310 [...] </NMI> Fix this by returning NULL early when invoked from NMI on a UP kernel.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < 05b4ed8bef30bba4f559c8d835e2dd20c48cf8a4 (git)
Affected: d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < a6d57efeaae3f3b3656514f600eac96be713d90e (git)
Affected: d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < 620b46ed6ae17c8438d889c8c0cfddab36a1476c (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.27 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.0.4 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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