CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-93230
- 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/hugetlb: initialize gigantic bootmem hugepage struct pages earlier
Gigantic bootmem HugeTLB pages are currently initialized from
hugetlb_init(), but page_alloc_init_late() runs earlier and walks
pageblocks to determine zone contiguity.
If a bootmem HugeTLB region is marked noinit, set_zone_contiguous() can
observe still-uninitialized struct pages through
__pageblock_pfn_to_page(). This may not trigger an immediate failure, but
it can make set_zone_contiguous() compute the wrong zone contiguity state.
If extra poisoned-page checks are added in this path, such as
PF_POISONED_CHECK() in page_zone_id(), it can also trigger an early boot
panic.
Initialize gigantic bootmem HugeTLB struct pages from
page_alloc_init_late(), before zone contiguity is evaluated, so later page
allocator setup only sees valid struct page state. This also makes the
initialization order more natural, as struct pages should be initialized
before later code inspects them.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09505232eced5f1c42902d8f28740f070c3fc6dc git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29968bc7aefb3cf1e72aa7c5f52697a6b0527094 git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/326de479ab5942fb4a4aa4f20c716045434fcd6b git.kernel.org
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b1b7c045e808c761b1cc8c19b3040fadedda3fef git.kernel.org