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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-43404" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-05-08T14:21:44.929Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T22:23:55.638Z" 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-2026-43404" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-43404.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-43404" title: "mm: Fix a hmm_range_fault() livelock / starvation problem" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: Fix a hmm_range_fault() livelock / starvation problem\n\nIf hmm_range_fault() fails a folio_trylock() in do_swap_page,\ntrying to acquire the lock of a device-private folio for migration,\nto ram, the function will spin until it succeeds grabbing the lock.\n\nHowever, if the process holding the lock is depending on a work\nitem to be completed, which is scheduled on the same CPU as the\nspinning hmm_range_fault(), that work item might be starved and\nwe end up in a livelock / starvation situation which is never\nresolved.\n\nThis can happen, for example if the process holding the\ndevice-private folio lock is stuck in\n migrate_device_unmap()-\u003elru_add_drain_all()\nsinc lru_add_drain_all() requires a short work-item\nto be run on all online cpus to complete.\n\nA prerequisite for this to happen is:\na) Both zone device and system memory folios are considered in\n migrate_device_unmap(), so that there is a reason to call\n lru_add_drain_all() for a system memory folio while a\n folio lock is held on a zone device folio.\nb) The zone device folio has an initial mapcount \u003e 1 which causes\n at least one migration PTE entry insertion to be deferred to\n try_to_migrate(), which can happen after the call to\n lru_add_drain_all().\nc) No or voluntary only preemption.\n\nThis all seems pretty unlikely to happen, but indeed is hit by\nthe \"xe_exec_system_allocator\" igt test.\n\nResolve this by waiting for the folio to be unlocked if the\nfolio_trylock() fails in do_swap_page().\n\nRename migration_entry_wait_on_locked() to\nsoftleaf_entry_wait_unlock() and update its documentation to\nindicate the new use-case.\n\nFuture code improvements might consider moving\nthe lru_add_drain_all() call in migrate_device_unmap() to be\ncalled *after* all pages have migration entries inserted.\nThat would eliminate also b) above.\n\nv2:\n- Instead of a cond_resched() in hmm_range_fault(),\n eliminate the problem by waiting for the folio to be unlocked\n in do_swap_page() (Alistair Popple, Andrew Morton)\nv3:\n- Add a stub migration_entry_wait_on_locked() for the\n !CONFIG_MIGRATION case. (Kernel Test Robot)\nv4:\n- Rename migrate_entry_wait_on_locked() to\n softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked() and update docs (Alistair Popple)\nv5:\n- Add a WARN_ON_ONCE() for the !CONFIG_MIGRATION\n version of softleaf_entry_wait_on_locked().\n- Modify wording around function names in the commit message\n (Andrew Morton)\n\n(cherry picked from commit a69d1ab971a624c6f112cea61536569d579c3215)" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1afaeb8293c9addbf4f9140bdd22635fed763459","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94b6d0ba4b640ba23bb6c708a59316e74e5ede63"},{"version":"1afaeb8293c9addbf4f9140bdd22635fed763459","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7e6e2fc91d4b9b12ec6e137019532568ebcf2680"},{"version":"1afaeb8293c9addbf4f9140bdd22635fed763459","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b570f37a2ce480be26c665345c5514686a8a0274"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.18.19","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"6.19.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.19.*"},{"version":"7.0","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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