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CVE-2026-93172 (GCVE-0-2026-93172)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-17 16:12 – Updated: 2026-09-17 16:12
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Title
mm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug We miss a failed allocation check for pgdat->per_cpu_nodestats, which results in a NULL deref when we offset into the per-cpu area. Propagate -ENOMEM up the stack and leave per_cpu_nodestats pointing at boot_nodestats so a later online can retry the allocation. hotadd_init_pgdat() returns NULL on failure, which __try_online_node() already maps to -ENOMEM. On failure nothing needs to be unwound: - the node is never marked online - per_cpu_nodestats is left pointing at boot_nodestats - __add_memory_resource() cleans up pending memblock resources - later online attempts retry the per_cpu_nodestats allocation
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58 , < 4cc5caef9a8d1894dfa31d84a0daa0ac1437dadc (git)
Affected: 75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58 , < bc3b5e6519b8df22d622a03eab6772784da97db4 (git)
Affected: 75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58 , < 1017fe1c7f48e511c5a680e3057005daaff2f3a2 (git)
Affected: 75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58 , < 2ebce860bdd7ae5e13002811bc9bbbf33fcfc221 (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 4.8
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.8 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.110 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.52 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.2.6 , ≤ 7.2.* (semver)
Unaffected: 7.3-rc1 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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