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CVE-2026-53207

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. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix race, rename label per Miaohe]

Metadata

CVE ID
CVE-2026-53207
State
PUBLISHED
Assigner
Linux
Reserved
2026-06-09 07:44 UTC
Published
2026-06-25 08:39 UTC
Last updated
2026-06-25 08:39 UTC
Vendor / Product
Linux / Linux
Sources
cve.org  ·  NVD

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Affected products (2)
VendorProductPlatformVersions
Linux Linux 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 < fc3ff42cb0cbf947e4600ae9761c3783760050e2, 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 < 77b73b54801ae7137479c141fd0473a491c1dc48, 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 < a33bfed648c10f5a1519981dbfad80841191edc8, 405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85 < dd77a83915b07e2b0205adb284f08b39ae31dc4b …
Linux Linux 5.18, 0 < 5.18, 6.1.176 ≤ 6.1.*, 6.6.143 ≤ 6.6.* …
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