CVE-2026-64180 (GCVE-0-2026-64180)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-19 15:41 – Updated: 2026-07-19 15:41
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/memory_hotplug: fix memory block reference leak on remove
Patch series "mm: Fix memory block leaks and locking", v2.
This series fixes two memory block device reference leaks and one locking
issue around the per-memory_block hwpoison counter.
This patch (of 2):
remove_memory_blocks_and_altmaps() looks up each memory block with
find_memory_block(), which acquires a reference to the memory block
device.
That reference is never dropped on this path, resulting in a leaked device
reference when removing memory blocks and their altmaps. Drop the
reference after retrieving mem->altmap and clearing mem->altmap, before
removing the memory block device.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6b8f0798b85aa529011570369db985a788f3003f , < b8ab30c79fc00147125b9c39f928561d9dd13d06
(git)
Affected: 6b8f0798b85aa529011570369db985a788f3003f , < 09ce923071e7852ece60d7368e05249bf32c7967 (git) Affected: 6b8f0798b85aa529011570369db985a788f3003f , < df64c0d21c3f85f844b2f656333e43d97e6ffa74 (git) Affected: 6b8f0798b85aa529011570369db985a788f3003f , < 93866f55f7e292fe3d47d36c9efe5ee10213a06b (git) |
guessed | |
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
6.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.8 (semver) Unaffected: 6.12.92 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.34 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.0.11 , ≤ 7.0.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix) |
guessed |
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