HIGH 7.8 NVD
CVE-2026-89986
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempolicy: fix sleeping allocation in alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() syzbot rep
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/mempolicy: fix sleeping allocation in alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave()
syzbot reported a sleeping function called from invalid context splat in
bucket_table_alloc().
When rhashtable_insert_slow() rehashes the table under rcu_read_lock(), it
calls bucket_table_alloc(..., GFP_ATOMIC | __GFP_NOWARN). If the bucket
table allocation uses vmalloc, __vmalloc_node_range_noprof() invokes
vm_area_alloc_pages() -> alloc_pages_bulk_mempolicy_noprof() with the
passed GFP_ATOMIC flags.
If the current task has an MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE mempolicy,
alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() is called and currently hardcodes
GFP_KERNEL when allocating the temporary weights array, triggering a
might_alloc() splat in atomic/RCU contexts.
Pass the gfp flags (masked with GFP_RECLAIM_MASK to strip page-allocator
zone modifiers like __GFP_HIGHMEM) received by
alloc_pages_bulk_weighted_interleave() to kmalloc() instead of hardcoding
GFP_KERNEL. Since the weights buffer is immediately initialized in full,
kmalloc() is sufficient.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ceda28f371df9e0bbdaa29214f71fe8298f23d8
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2943f1f4b7f2816177060eb9f551f2e6d8b629ba
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/540e583b66d6402bf556fde5e53c817a54c1afe5
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bcb3d0c867ee40dc48e9c085bf328fbc679b6656
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2026-09-16 via NVD.
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