5.5

CVE-2026-64302

x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages

Commit bf9e4e30f353 ("x86/mm: use pagetable_free()"), switched from
freeing non-boot page tables through __free_pages() to
pagetable_free().

However, the function is also called to free vmemmap pages.

Given that vmemmap pages are not page tables, already the page_ptdesc(page)
is wrong. But worse, pagetable_free() calls:

	__free_pages(page, compound_order(page));

Since vmemmap pages are not compound pages (see vmemmap_alloc_block())
-- except for HVO, which doesn't apply here -- only first page of a
PMD-sized vmemmap page is freed, leaking the other ones.

Fix it by properly decoupling pagetable and vmemmap freeing.
free_pagetable() no longer has to mess with SECTION_INFO, as only the
vmemmap is marked like that in register_page_bootmem_memmap().

The indentation in remove_pmd_table() is messed up. Fix that while
touching it.

Bootmem info handling will soon be fixed up. For now, handle it
similar to free_pagetable(), just avoiding the ifdef.

[ dhansen: changelog munging. More imperative voice ]
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.2% 0.099
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
NIST 5.5 1.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/add1e4112e00b619614784bf630aeebfdefa23e1
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03f6ecbc446c33b38fd452cd3c494092a8116967
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39406c05f8f150f1685839acd38ffdd69ff92031
Patch