UNKNOWN NVD
CVE-2026-99169
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared fut
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM.
It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM
because a FUT_OFF_INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT_OFF_MMSHARED
futex by another process.
This can cause FUT_OFF_MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume
wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address.
Fix it by keying FUT_OFF_MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID.
Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the
hotpath.
(Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT_OFF_MMSHARED by
setting clear_child_tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which
causes mm_release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX_WAKE.)
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2855ddc6844f527e375e78afb55ec2a5182f23b3
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3267512ad1c2cc0c7768c5b014dc2cceb398a801
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c17cc2027773e8e4913c5ab0fe3a489b1ed5bf81
This unknown severity vulnerability was published on 2026-10-28 via NVD.
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