CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-89753
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/vmscan: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in shrink_lruvec()
I am seeing some rcu_tasks stalls in the Meta fleet during reclaim.
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
0000000088620d09: .. nvcsw: 6735/6735 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/8
task:GlobalCPUThread state:R running task pid:2552016 tgid:2524552
Call Trace:
shrink_lruvec
mem_cgroup_iter
shrink_node
do_try_to_free_pages
try_to_free_pages
__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof
alloc_pages_noprof
pte_alloc_one
__pte_alloc
handle_mm_fault
Nothing promises direct reclaim returns in bounded time, and the scan loop
in shrink_lruvec() only calls cond_resched(), which is a no-op on
PREEMPTION kernels. Involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent
state, so the reclaiming task never reports one and becomes a holdout.
Upgrade it to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), which reports a quiescent state
even when cond_resched() does nothing.
PS: This has been discussed in [1]
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/029c9408049f7f582230322057b7075bea594fd5 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f52e81216884a7444bf07a606691feb09a94e3 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd50239986302cb050d3649351bcec00fa9d5ab git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cdc1bdf40944de5c6b118fef07ad23f07844338 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f50593c9cbc883d8c9b50148a3e8a8b1fd35f57 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67a00a70a7c8309ca47ea157ef3e8ed3d268f5b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5391676c61d94ffe3272dcf6723738b802f79e8 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3ba0911a1cf8680371ff113b90088edd01d2bb git.kernel.org