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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-31456"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-04-22T13:53:49.568Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-17T13:44:31.920Z"
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-2026-31456"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-31456.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31456"
title: "mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault\n\nThe splitting of a PUD entry in walk_pud_range() can race with a\nconcurrent thread refaulting the PUD leaf entry causing it to try walking\na PMD range that has disappeared.\n\nAn example and reproduction of this is to try reading numa_maps of a\nprocess while VFIO-PCI is setting up DMA (specifically the\nvfio_pin_pages_remote call) on a large BAR for that process.\n\nThis will trigger a kernel BUG:\nvfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -\u003e 0002)\nBUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa23980000000\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n...\nRIP: 0010:walk_pgd_range+0x3b5/0x7a0\nCode: 8d 43 ff 48 89 44 24 28 4d 89 ce 4d 8d a7 00 00 20 00 48 8b 4c 24\n28 49 81 e4 00 00 e0 ff 49 8d 44 24 ff 48 39 c8 4c 0f 43 e3 \u003c49\u003e f7 06\n   9f ff ff ff 75 3b 48 8b 44 24 20 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74\nRSP: 0018:ffffac23e1ecf808 EFLAGS: 00010287\nRAX: 00007f44c01fffff RBX: 00007f4500000000 RCX: 00007f44ffffffff\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000ffffffffff000 RDI: ffffffff93378fe0\nRBP: ffffac23e1ecf918 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffffa23980000000\nR10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 00007f44c0200000\nR13: 00007f44c0000000 R14: ffffa23980000000 R15: 00007f44c0000000\nFS:  00007fe884739580(0000) GS:ffff9b7d7a9c0000(0000)\nknlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: ffffa23980000000 CR3: 000000c0650e2005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0\nPKRU: 55555554\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __walk_page_range+0x195/0x1b0\n walk_page_vma+0x62/0xc0\n show_numa_map+0x12b/0x3b0\n seq_read_iter+0x297/0x440\n seq_read+0x11d/0x140\n vfs_read+0xc2/0x340\n ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130\n ? get_page_from_freelist+0x5c2/0x17e0\n ? mas_store_prealloc+0x17e/0x360\n ? vma_set_page_prot+0x4c/0xa0\n ? __alloc_pages_noprof+0x14e/0x2d0\n ? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x8d/0x140\n ? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x76/0xb0\n ? __folio_mod_stat+0x26/0x80\n ? do_anonymous_page+0x705/0x900\n ? __handle_mm_fault+0xa8d/0x1000\n ? __count_memcg_events+0x53/0xf0\n ? handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x360\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x342/0x640\n ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x16/0xa0\n ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x24/0x100\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\nRIP: 0033:0x7fe88464f47e\nCode: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d be 07 0b 00 e8 69 01 02 00 66 0f 1f\n84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00\n   f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28\nRSP: 002b:00007ffe6cd9a9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007fe88464f47e\nRDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007fe884543000 RDI: 0000000000000003\nRBP: 00007fe884543000 R08: 00007fe884542010 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nFix this by validating the PUD entry in walk_pmd_range() using a stable\nsnapshot (pudp_get()).  If the PUD is not present or is a leaf, retry the\nwalk via ACTION_AGAIN instead of descending further.  This mirrors the\nretry logic in walk_pte_range(), which lets walk_pmd_range() retry if the\nPTE is not being got by pte_offset_map_lock()."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f9e54c3a2f5b79ecc57c7bc7d0d3521e461a2101","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"138ada1337b47cc5efb08e517674d46f86268274"},{"version":"f9e54c3a2f5b79ecc57c7bc7d0d3521e461a2101","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"38ec58670a0c5fc1edabdeccd857e586b7b3f318"},{"version":"f9e54c3a2f5b79ecc57c7bc7d0d3521e461a2101","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9bbbebd94dd5be25ec8c899d46ef01b33d5d22c0"},{"version":"f9e54c3a2f5b79ecc57c7bc7d0d3521e461a2101","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3b89863c3fa482912911cd65a12a3aeef662c250"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.84","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.21","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.11","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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