7.1

CVE-2026-72213

mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch

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

mm/hugetlb: fix hugetlb cgroup rsvd charge/uncharge mismatch

In alloc_hugetlb_folio(), a single h_cg pointer is used for both the rsvd
and non-rsvd hugetlb cgroup charges.  When map_chg is set,
hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup_rsvd() stores the charged cgroup in h_cg, but
the immediately following hugetlb_cgroup_charge_cgroup() overwrites h_cg
with the non-rsvd cgroup pointer.

As a result, hugetlb_cgroup_commit_charge_rsvd() stores the wrong
(non-rsvd) cgroup pointer into the folio's rsvd slot.

When the folio is later freed, free_huge_folio() unconditionally calls
both hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio() and
hugetlb_cgroup_uncharge_folio_rsvd().  The rsvd uncharge reads back the
wrong cgroup from the folio and decrements a counter that was never
charged for that cgroup, causing a page_counter underflow:

  page_counter underflow: -512 nr_pages=512
  WARNING: mm/page_counter.c:61 at page_counter_cancel

Fix this by introducing a separate h_cg_rsvd pointer exclusively for the
rsvd charge path, keeping the rsvd and non-rsvd charges fully independent
through their charge, commit, and error uncharge paths.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch das CVE Programm von einer CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) (Unstrukturiert).
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa
Version < 5c32ae4a91fb5f4941328e0c1720a7fa4189c3bd
Status affected
Version 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa
Version < 1697d253f51cf5e3825a3423ff49e128a3502ab2
Status affected
Version 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa
Version < b785f2bd9496facedc0a031be09cddcd1d3c84d3
Status affected
Version 08cf9faf7558020aed6a0da5810b824b07139dfa
Version < 15807d0ddde37407af72859426b654f3d1972b00
Status affected
HerstellerLinux
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Produkt Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 5.7
Status affected
Version 0
Version < 5.7
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.101
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.18.*
Version 6.18.40
Status unaffected
Version <= 7.1.*
Version 7.1.5
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 7.2
Status unaffected
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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.16% 0.056
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67 7.1 1.8 5.2
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c32ae4a91fb5f4941328e0c1720a7fa4189c3bd
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1697d253f51cf5e3825a3423ff49e128a3502ab2
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b785f2bd9496facedc0a031be09cddcd1d3c84d3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/15807d0ddde37407af72859426b654f3d1972b00