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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-23375"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-03-25T10:27:55.754Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:05:39.614Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:02.025Z"
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-2026-23375"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-23375.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-23375"
title: "mm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes\n\nfile_thp_enabled() incorrectly allows THP for files on anonymous inodes\n(e.g. guest_memfd and secretmem). These files are created via\nalloc_file_pseudo(), which does not call get_write_access() and leaves\ninode-\u003ei_writecount at 0. Combined with S_ISREG(inode-\u003ei_mode) being\ntrue, they appear as read-only regular files when\nCONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS is enabled, making them eligible for THP\ncollapse.\n\nAnonymous inodes can never pass the inode_is_open_for_write() check\nsince their i_writecount is never incremented through the normal VFS\nopen path. The right thing to do is to exclude them from THP eligibility\naltogether, since CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS was designed for real\nfilesystem files (e.g. shared libraries), not for pseudo-filesystem\ninodes.\n\nFor guest_memfd, this allows khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE to create\nlarge folios in the page cache via the collapse path, but the\nguest_memfd fault handler does not support large folios. This triggers\nWARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_large(folio)) in kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping().\n\nFor secretmem, collapse_file() tries to copy page contents through the\ndirect map, but secretmem pages are removed from the direct map. This\ncan result in a kernel crash:\n\n    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88810284d000\n    RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x16/0x130\n    Call Trace:\n     collapse_file\n     hpage_collapse_scan_file\n     madvise_collapse\n\nSecretmem is not affected by the crash on upstream as the memory failure\nrecovery handles the failed copy gracefully, but it still triggers\nconfusing false memory failure reports:\n\n    Memory failure: 0x106d96f: recovery action for clean unevictable\n    LRU page: Recovered\n\nCheck IS_ANON_FILE(inode) in file_thp_enabled() to deny THP for all\nanonymous inode files."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"7fbb5e188248c50f737720825da1864ce42536d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"08de46a75f91a6661bc1ce0a93614f4bc313c581"},{"version":"7fbb5e188248c50f737720825da1864ce42536d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"0524ee56af2c9bfbad152a810f1ca95de8ca00d7"},{"version":"7fbb5e188248c50f737720825da1864ce42536d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f6fa05f0dddd387417d0c28281ddb951582514d6"},{"version":"7fbb5e188248c50f737720825da1864ce42536d1","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd085fe9a8ebfc5d10314c60452db38d2b75e609"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.78","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.17","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.7","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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