CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93216
- Status
- Received
- Published
- 2026-09-24
- Last modified
- 2026-10-21
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()
print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the
start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later
re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:
1: page_memcg_check(page)
2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes
VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)
If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or
slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.
Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2ef git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a4c940ab3f794f221a338c9431ad1ce0d73a2bea git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7c1923c5f30a6953f0540e3171d882ec17b05d3 git.kernel.org