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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2024-26960" idYear: 2024 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2024-05-01T05:19:12.112Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T00:39:36.857Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:07.518Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26960" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2024-26960.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-26960" title: "mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()\n\nThere was previously a theoretical window where swapoff() could run and\nteardown a swap_info_struct while a call to free_swap_and_cache() was\nrunning in another thread. This could cause, amongst other bad\npossibilities, swap_page_trans_huge_swapped() (called by\nfree_swap_and_cache()) to access the freed memory for swap_map.\n\nThis is a theoretical problem and I haven't been able to provoke it from a\ntest case. But there has been agreement based on code review that this is\npossible (see link below).\n\nFix it by using get_swap_device()/put_swap_device(), which will stall\nswapoff(). There was an extra check in _swap_info_get() to confirm that\nthe swap entry was not free. This isn't present in get_swap_device()\nbecause it doesn't make sense in general due to the race between getting\nthe reference and swapoff. So I've added an equivalent check directly in\nfree_swap_and_cache().\n\nDetails of how to provoke one possible issue (thanks to David Hildenbrand\nfor deriving this):\n\n--8\u003c-----\n\n__swap_entry_free() might be the last user and result in\n\"count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE\".\n\nswapoff-\u003etry_to_unuse() will stop as soon as soon as si-\u003einuse_pages==0.\n\nSo the question is: could someone reclaim the folio and turn\nsi-\u003einuse_pages==0, before we completed swap_page_trans_huge_swapped().\n\nImagine the following: 2 MiB folio in the swapcache. Only 2 subpages are\nstill references by swap entries.\n\nProcess 1 still references subpage 0 via swap entry.\nProcess 2 still references subpage 1 via swap entry.\n\nProcess 1 quits. Calls free_swap_and_cache().\n-\u003e count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE\n[then, preempted in the hypervisor etc.]\n\nProcess 2 quits. Calls free_swap_and_cache().\n-\u003e count == SWAP_HAS_CACHE\n\nProcess 2 goes ahead, passes swap_page_trans_huge_swapped(), and calls\n__try_to_reclaim_swap().\n\n__try_to_reclaim_swap()-\u003efolio_free_swap()-\u003edelete_from_swap_cache()-\u003e\nput_swap_folio()-\u003efree_swap_slot()-\u003eswapcache_free_entries()-\u003e\nswap_entry_free()-\u003eswap_range_free()-\u003e\n...\nWRITE_ONCE(si-\u003einuse_pages, si-\u003einuse_pages - nr_entries);\n\nWhat stops swapoff to succeed after process 2 reclaimed the swap cache\nbut before process1 finished its call to swap_page_trans_huge_swapped()?\n\n--8\u003c-----" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d85c11c97ecf92d47a4b29e3faca714dc1f18d0d"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2da5568ee222ce0541bfe446a07998f92ed1643e"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1ede7f1d7eed1738d1b9333fd1e152ccb450b86a"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0f98f6d2fb5fad00f8299b84b85b6bc1b6d7d19a"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3ce4c4c653e4e478ecb15d3c88e690f12cbf6b39"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"363d17e7f7907c8e27a9e86968af0eaa2301787b"},{"version":"7c00bafee87c7bac7ed9eced7c161f8e5332cb4e","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"82b1c07a0af603e3c47b906c8e991dc96f01688e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.11"},{"version":"5.10.215","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.154","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.24","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.7.12","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.7.*"},{"version":"6.8.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.8.*"},{"version":"6.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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