CVE-2026-53162
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.
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Affected products (2)
| Vendor | Product | Platform | Versions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | — | f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d < 89bd8215e25aa6999cc51696da418e0d422bc5e0, f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d < 00731bd7e18f182a32ca54d6b176eaa470b51ed7, f735eebe55f8f61758fe014bd0b02ab50b059e4d < c0cafe24d3f6534294c4b2bc2d47734ff7cbd313 |
| Linux | Linux | — | 6.16, 0 < 6.16, 6.18.36 ≤ 6.18.*, 7.0.13 ≤ 7.0.* … |
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