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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-53207" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:13.592Z" updatedAt: "2026-06-25T08:39:13.592Z" 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-2026-53207" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-53207.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-53207" title: "mm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in get_huge_page_for_hwpoison" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/memory-failure: fix hugetlb_lock AA deadlock in get_huge_page_for_hwpoison\n\nTwo concurrent madvise(MADV_HWPOISON) calls on the same hugetlb page can\ntrigger a recursive spinlock self-deadlock (AA deadlock) on hugetlb_lock\nwhen racing with a concurrent unmap:\n\n thread#0 thread#1\n -------- --------\n madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON)\n -\u003e poisons the folio successfully\n madvise(folio, MADV_HWPOISON) unmap(folio)\n try_memory_failure_hugetlb\n get_huge_page_for_hwpoison\n spin_lock_irq(&hugetlb_lock) \u003c- held\n __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison\n hugetlb_update_hwpoison()\n -\u003e MF_HUGETLB_FOLIO_PRE_POISONED\n goto out:\n folio_put()\n refcount: 1 -\u003e 0\n free_huge_folio()\n spin_lock_irqsave(&hugetlb_lock)\n -\u003e AA DEADLOCK!\n\nThe out: path in __get_huge_page_for_hwpoison() calls folio_put() to drop\nthe GUP reference while the hugetlb_lock is still held by the hugetlb.c\nwrapper get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). If concurrent unmap has released\nthe page table mapping reference, folio_put() drops the folio refcount to\nzero, triggering free_huge_folio() which attempts to re-acquire the\nnon-recursive hugetlb_lock.\n\nFix this by moving hugetlb_lock acquisition from the hugetlb.c wrapper\ninto get_huge_page_for_hwpoison(). Place spin_unlock_irq() before the\nfolio_put() at the out: label so the folio is always released outside the\nlock.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix race, rename label per Miaohe]" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fc3ff42cb0cbf947e4600ae9761c3783760050e2"},{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"77b73b54801ae7137479c141fd0473a491c1dc48"},{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a33bfed648c10f5a1519981dbfad80841191edc8"},{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"dd77a83915b07e2b0205adb284f08b39ae31dc4b"},{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bf7ba8f96c258c30393814491930ae4ecdc5fe5e"},{"version":"405ce051236cc65b30bbfe490b28ce60ae6aed85","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3c2d42b8ee345b17a4ba56b0f6492d1ff4c1178e"},{"version":"62d1655b922958826b7ec22682c3141746f75064","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"5.15.54","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.16"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.18","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.18"},{"version":"6.1.176","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.94","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"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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