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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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HerstellerLinux
Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version a1593c90896babf33e947910c7aecb9f50bab993
Version < add1e4112e00b619614784bf630aeebfdefa23e1
Status affected
Version bf9e4e30f3538391745a99bc2268ec4f5e4a401e
Version < 03f6ecbc446c33b38fd452cd3c494092a8116967
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Version bf9e4e30f3538391745a99bc2268ec4f5e4a401e
Version < 39406c05f8f150f1685839acd38ffdd69ff92031
Status affected
Version 6.18.7
Version < 6.18.39
Status affected
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Default Statusaffected
Version 6.19
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 6.19
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.39
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.1.*
Version 7.1.4
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Version <= *
Version 7.2
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/add1e4112e00b619614784bf630aeebfdefa23e1
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03f6ecbc446c33b38fd452cd3c494092a8116967
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39406c05f8f150f1685839acd38ffdd69ff92031