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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-43285"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-08T13:11:11.191Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:21:36.072Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:14.884Z"
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-2026-43285"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43285.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43285"
title: "mm/slab: do not access current-\u003emems_allowed_seq if !allow_spin"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/slab: do not access current-\u003emems_allowed_seq if !allow_spin\n\nLockdep complains when get_from_any_partial() is called in an NMI\ncontext, because current-\u003emems_allowed_seq is seqcount_spinlock_t and\nnot NMI-safe:\n\n  ================================\n  WARNING: inconsistent lock state\n  6.19.0-rc5-kfree-rcu+ #315 Tainted: G                 N\n  --------------------------------\n  inconsistent {INITIAL USE} -\u003e {IN-NMI} usage.\n  kunit_try_catch/9989 [HC1[1]:SC0[0]:HE0:SE1] takes:\n  ffff889085799820 (&____s-\u003eseqcount#3){.-.-}-{0:0}, at: ___slab_alloc+0x58f/0xc00\n  {INITIAL USE} state was registered at:\n    lock_acquire+0x185/0x320\n    kernel_init_freeable+0x391/0x1150\n    kernel_init+0x1f/0x220\n    ret_from_fork+0x736/0x8f0\n    ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n  irq event stamp: 56\n  hardirqs last  enabled at (55): [\u003cffffffff850a68d7\u003e] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x27/0x70\n  hardirqs last disabled at (56): [\u003cffffffff850858ca\u003e] __schedule+0x2a8a/0x6630\n  softirqs last  enabled at (0): [\u003cffffffff81536711\u003e] copy_process+0x1dc1/0x6a10\n  softirqs last disabled at (0): [\u003c0000000000000000\u003e] 0x0\n\n  other info that might help us debug this:\n   Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n         CPU0\n         ----\n    lock(&____s-\u003eseqcount#3);\n    \u003cInterrupt\u003e\n      lock(&____s-\u003eseqcount#3);\n\n   *** DEADLOCK ***\n\nAccording to Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst, seqcount_t is not\nNMI-safe and seqcount_latch_t should be used when read path can interrupt\nthe write-side critical section. In this case, do not access\ncurrent-\u003emems_allowed_seq and avoid retry."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"af92793e52c3a99b828ed4bdd277fd3e11c18d08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"353dd9934447b9193643ae1afd938607a74d4915"},{"version":"af92793e52c3a99b828ed4bdd277fd3e11c18d08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"efd767ddcef0669bbd33c6a823ea0a88f06d4b29"},{"version":"af92793e52c3a99b828ed4bdd277fd3e11c18d08","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"144080a5823b2dbd635acb6decf7ab23182664f3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.18"},{"version":"6.18.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.6","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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