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GHSA-VF4V-9G5V-367G

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-11 21:31 – Updated: 2026-09-14 15:32
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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/vmscan: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in shrink_lruvec()

I am seeing some rcu_tasks stalls in the Meta fleet during reclaim.

INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks: 0000000088620d09: .. nvcsw: 6735/6735 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/8 task:GlobalCPUThread state:R running task pid:2552016 tgid:2524552 Call Trace: shrink_lruvec mem_cgroup_iter shrink_node do_try_to_free_pages try_to_free_pages __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof alloc_pages_noprof pte_alloc_one __pte_alloc handle_mm_fault

Nothing promises direct reclaim returns in bounded time, and the scan loop in shrink_lruvec() only calls cond_resched(), which is a no-op on PREEMPTION kernels. Involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent state, so the reclaiming task never reports one and becomes a holdout.

Upgrade it to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), which reports a quiescent state even when cond_resched() does nothing.

PS: This has been discussed in [1]

Show details on source website

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2026-89753"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2026-09-11T20:20:06Z",
    "severity": null
  },
  "details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/vmscan: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in shrink_lruvec()\n\nI am seeing some rcu_tasks stalls in the Meta fleet during reclaim.\n\n  INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:\n\t0000000088620d09: .. nvcsw: 6735/6735 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/8\n\ttask:GlobalCPUThread state:R  running task  pid:2552016 tgid:2524552\n  Call Trace:\n   shrink_lruvec\n   mem_cgroup_iter\n   shrink_node\n   do_try_to_free_pages\n   try_to_free_pages\n   __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof\n   alloc_pages_noprof\n   pte_alloc_one\n   __pte_alloc\n   handle_mm_fault\n\nNothing promises direct reclaim returns in bounded time, and the scan loop\nin shrink_lruvec() only calls cond_resched(), which is a no-op on\nPREEMPTION kernels.  Involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent\nstate, so the reclaiming task never reports one and becomes a holdout.\n\nUpgrade it to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), which reports a quiescent state\neven when cond_resched() does nothing.\n\nPS: This has been discussed in [1]",
  "id": "GHSA-vf4v-9g5v-367g",
  "modified": "2026-09-14T15:32:36Z",
  "published": "2026-09-11T21:31:39Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89753"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/029c9408049f7f582230322057b7075bea594fd5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25f52e81216884a7444bf07a606691feb09a94e3"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3fd50239986302cb050d3649351bcec00fa9d5ab"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4cdc1bdf40944de5c6b118fef07ad23f07844338"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4f50593c9cbc883d8c9b50148a3e8a8b1fd35f57"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a67a00a70a7c8309ca47ea157ef3e8ed3d268f5b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b5391676c61d94ffe3272dcf6723738b802f79e8"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf3ba0911a1cf8680371ff113b90088edd01d2bb"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}



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