CVE-2026-46035 (GCVE-0-2026-46035)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-27 12:56 – Updated: 2026-06-14 17:49
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < 05b4ed8bef30bba4f559c8d835e2dd20c48cf8a4
(git)
Affected: d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < a6d57efeaae3f3b3656514f600eac96be713d90e (git) Affected: d7242af8643409aae32243450341ef25b28d8a8c , < 620b46ed6ae17c8438d889c8c0cfddab36a1476c (git) |
|
| 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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