HIGH 7.8 NVD
CVE-2026-90046
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: don't spin_trylock() in NMI on UP Patch series "mm/page_alloc: fixes for fr
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/page_alloc: don't spin_trylock() in NMI on UP
Patch series "mm/page_alloc: fixes for free_pages_nolock() on RT/UP".
Pre-existing bugs found by Sashiko during review of this other series:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260703-alloc-trylock-v5-0-c87b714e19d3@google.com/
I have not reproduced these bugs, and I suspect there is no real-world
user that is affected by them.
This patch (of 2):
As noted in can_spin_trylock(), using this is unsafe in this context.
commit 620b46ed6ae17 ("mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from
alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP") fixed this on the alloc side
but missed the free side.
Impact: If BPF programs using these features in NMI (probably tracing) are
present on non-SMP builds this might crash the kernel and is probably
exploitable by local attackers for privilege escalation.
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/06c76d3c389ff504052f64b1acee44651bd847fa
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3105ae628fb785d48b49256468be4f21a7b3cfc0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/68a069b407303e71db371df85036101e8ff59280
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8 was published on 2026-09-16 via NVD.
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