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GHSA-5JWV-P5CJ-5P3C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-28 09:31

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

mm: mglru: fix stale batch updates after memcg reparenting

The mglru page table walker batches per-generation size deltas in walk->nr_pages while walking page tables without holding the lruvec lock. The reset_batch_size() later folds those deltas into walk->lruvec under the lruvec lock.

The page table walker can run concurrently with the memcg reparenting path as follows:

CPU0 CPU1 ==== ====

walk_mm --> walk_page_range --> update_batch_size --> walk->nr_pages += delta

                          mem_cgroup_css_offline
                          --> memcg_reparent_objcgs
                              --> lock lruvec
                                  lru_gen_reparent_memcg
                                  --> reparent child folios to parent
                                  unlock lruvec

lock lruvec
reset_batch_size
--> child lrugen->nr_pages += delta

This will trigger the following warning in lru_gen_exit_memcg():

VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(memchr_inv(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages, 0,
               sizeof(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages)));

And the user-visible impact of underestimated nr_pages in MGLRU was premature OOMs because MGLRU does not try to reclaim memory when nr_pages reaches zero, but there are still more pages.

To fix it, make reset_batch_size() check CSS_DYING under RCU before flushing the pending batch. A non-dying memcg keeps the original lruvec stable against RCU-delayed offlining; a dying memcg redirects the deltas to the first non-dying ancestor.

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CVE-2026-80719 (GCVE-0-2026-80719)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 06:53 – Updated: 2026-08-28 06:53

Title

mm: mglru: fix stale batch updates after memcg reparenting

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: mglru: fix stale batch updates after memcg reparenting The mglru page table walker batches per-generation size deltas in walk->nr_pages while walking page tables without holding the lruvec lock. The reset_batch_size() later folds those deltas into walk->lruvec under the lruvec lock. The page table walker can run concurrently with the memcg reparenting path as follows: CPU0 CPU1 ==== ==== walk_mm --> walk_page_range --> update_batch_size --> walk->nr_pages += delta mem_cgroup_css_offline --> memcg_reparent_objcgs --> lock lruvec lru_gen_reparent_memcg --> reparent child folios to parent unlock lruvec lock lruvec reset_batch_size --> child lrugen->nr_pages += delta This will trigger the following warning in lru_gen_exit_memcg(): VM_WARN_ON_ONCE(memchr_inv(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages, 0, sizeof(lruvec->lrugen.nr_pages))); And the user-visible impact of underestimated nr_pages in MGLRU was premature OOMs because MGLRU does not try to reclaim memory when nr_pages reaches zero, but there are still more pages. To fix it, make reset_batch_size() check CSS_DYING under RCU before flushing the pending batch. A non-dying memcg keeps the original lruvec stable against RCU-delayed offlining; a dying memcg redirects the deltas to the first non-dying ancestor.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fceb6b7f3ddec6ea9…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/de4660898b7aa7e03…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: f304652609eae3814b0e9d11c75c0e0cb62da31f , < fceb6b7f3ddec6ea9fc11577f4cf1b2da73a3101 (git) Affected: f304652609eae3814b0e9d11c75c0e0cb62da31f , < de4660898b7aa7e03d3b120a6bfa6b26211e4e77 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 7.1 Unaffected: 0 , < 7.1 (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.8 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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