In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_vma_mapped: fix device-private PMD handling
Commit 65edfda6f3f2 ("mm/rmap: extend rmap and migration support device-private entries") introduced the concept of device-private PMD entries, but did not correctly update the rmap walk code to account for them.
As a result, when page_vma_mapped_walk() encounters device-private PMD entries, it takes no action other than to acquire the PMD lock and exit.
However this is highly problematic for two reasons - firstly, device private entries possess a PFN so check_pmd() needs to be called to ensure an overlapping PFN range.
Secondly, and more importantly, if PVMW_MIGRATION is set the caller assumes the returned entry is a migration entry, resulting in memory corruption when the caller tries to interpret the device private entry as such.
In addition, commit 146287290023 ("mm/huge_memory: implement device-private THP splitting") allowed device private PMDs to be split like THP mappings, but again did not update this code path.
As a result, we might race a PMD split prior to acquiring the PMD lock.
This patch addresses all of these issues by invoking check_pmd(), ensuring PMVW_MIGRATION is not set and checks whether a split raced us we do for PMD THP and migration entries.
Instead of checking for a subset of the cases after taking the pmd_lock(), put device-private along with pmd_trans_huge() and pmd_is_migration_entry(). Also remove thp_migration_supported() as it is already guarded by pmd_is_migration_entry().
[[email protected]: fix Raspberry Pi 1 build, per David]
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| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-image-realtime-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-aws-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-oracle-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azure-lts-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-oemUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-oem-26.04Upgrade linux-image-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1013-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1017-azureUpgrade linux-image-gcp-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-gkeUpgrade linux-image-virtual-7.0Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1015-ibmUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-ibm-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gkeUpgrade linux-image-genericUpgrade linux-image-aws-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azure-fde-7.0Upgrade linux-image-virtualUpgrade linux-image-realtime-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1016-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1013-oracleUpgrade linux-image-gke-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-realtime-64kUpgrade linux-image-ibmUpgrade linux-image-generic-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-azureUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-realtime-64kUpgrade linux-image-gcp-64kUpgrade linux-image-virtual-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-gcp-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-realtime-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-awsUpgrade linux-image-azure-fde-lts-26.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-oracleUpgrade linux-image-gke-64k-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-realtime-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gke-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-gke-64kUpgrade linux-image-generic-hwe-26.04Upgrade linux-image-generic-64k-hwe-24.04Upgrade linux-image-gcpUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-awsUpgrade linux-image-oracle-64kUpgrade linux-image-realtimeUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-genericUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1008-gke-64kUpgrade linux-image-generic-7.0Upgrade linux-image-oem-7.0Upgrade linux-image-gke-64k-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-38-generic-64kUpgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-aws-64kUpgrade linux-image-oem-26.04aUpgrade linux-image-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-image-azure-7.0Upgrade linux-image-7.0.0-1014-gcp | Oct 7, 2026 | Oct 6, 2026 |
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