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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53155" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:38.828Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-25T08:38:38.828Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:20.586Z" 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-2026-53155" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53155.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53155" title: "mm/huge_memory: use correct flags for device private PMD entry" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/huge_memory: use correct flags for device private PMD entry\n\nCommit 65edfda6f3f2 (\"mm/rmap: extend rmap and migration support\ndevice-private entries\") updated set_pmd_migration_entry() to use\npmdp_huge_get_and_clear() in the softleaf case, but made no further\nadjustments to the function itself.\n\nTherefore this function continues to incorrectly use pmd_write(),\npmd_soft_dirty() and pmd_uffd_wp() to determine whether the installed\nmigration entry should be marked writable, softdirty or uffd-wp\nrespectively.\n\nWhilst all are incorrect, the most problematic of these is pmd_write(), as\nthis can lead to corrupted rmap state.\n\nOn x86-64 _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY is aliased to _PAGE_RW. So calling\npmd_write() on a softleaf will return the softdirty state encoded in the\nentry, assuming CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY was enabled.\n\nThis was observed when running the hmm.hmm_device_private.anon_write_child\nselftest:\n\n1. The test faults in a range then migrates it such that a device-private\n THP range is established.\n\n2. The parent then migrates it to a device-private writable PMD entry whose\n folio is entirely AnonExclusive with entire_mapcount=1, softdirty set\n (accidentally correct write state).\n\n3. The parent forks and the PMD entries are set to device-private read only\n entries, entire_mapcount=2, softdirty still set.\n\n4. [BUG] The child writes to the range then migrates to RAM - intending to\n install non-writable migration entries - but replacing parent and child\n PMD mappings with WRITABLE entries due to misinterpreting the softdirty\n bit.\n\n5. In remove_migration_pmd(), if !softleaf_is_migration_read(entry) we\n set the RMAP_EXCLUSIVE flag when calling folio_add_anon_rmap_pmd() for\n both parent and child, which are therefore AnonExclusive.\n\n6. [SPLAT] Child sets migrated folio entire_mapcount=1, parent sets\n entire_mapcount=2 and we end up with an AnonExclusive folio with\n entire_mapcount=2! Assert fires in __folio_add_anon_rmap():\n\n\t\tVM_WARN_ON_FOLIO(folio_test_large(folio) &&\n\t\t\t\t folio_entire_mapcount(folio) \u003e 1 &&\n\t\t\t\t PageAnonExclusive(cur_page), folio)\n\nThis patch fixes the issue by correctly referencing the softleaf entry\nfields for writable, softdirty and uffd-wp in set_pmd_migration_entry().\n\nIt also only updates A/D flags if the entry is present as these are\notherwise not meaningful for a softleaf entry.\n\nThis patch also flips the if (!present) { ... } else { ... } logic in\nset_pmd_migration_entry() so it is easier to understand, and adds some\ncomments to make things clearer.\n\nI was able to bisect this to commit 775465fd26a3 (\"lib/test_hmm: add zone\ndevice private THP test infrastructure\") which first exposes this bug as\nit was the commit that permitted test_hmm to generate the test.\n\nHowever commit 65edfda6f3f2 (\"mm/rmap: extend rmap and migration support\ndevice-private entries\") is the commit that actually enabled this\nbehaviour." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"65edfda6f3f2e58f757485a056e4f1775a1404a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d7251c8d3f7cea76543abac6cf4ed15582c10846"},{"version":"65edfda6f3f2e58f757485a056e4f1775a1404a8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"43e7f189769c512c843184a8a5892ac779a6bd90"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.0.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.0.*"},{"version":"7.1","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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