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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2026-72175" idYear: 2026 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2026-08-15T05:53:40.011Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-16T18:45:00.474Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z" 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-2026-72175" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-72175.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72175" title: "fs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nfs/proc/task_mmu: fix make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() prot-update race\n\nPatch series \"userfaultfd/pagemap: pre-existing fixes\".\n\nThese are pre-existing bug fixes that were carried at the front of the\nuserfaultfd RWP working-set-tracking series up to v5 [1]. Per review\nfeedback that fixes should not sit in the middle of a feature series, they\nare split out and sent on their own; the RWP series is reposted rebased on\ntop of this.\n\nAll six were flagged by the Sashiko AI review of the RWP series and carry\nindependent of RWP, apply to mm-new directly, and carry Cc: stable@.\n\n 1: fs/proc/task_mmu: a missing huge_ptep_modify_prot_start() in\n make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() can lose hardware Dirty/Accessed updates\n when PAGEMAP_SCAN write-protects a hugetlb PTE.\n\n 2: fs/proc/task_mmu: pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry() compares the range\n against HPAGE_SIZE rather than the hstate page size, so it never\n write-protects gigantic hugetlb pages.\n\n 3: fs/proc/task_mmu: PAGEMAP_SCAN with PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING over an\n unpopulated hugetlb range self-deadlocks -- pagemap_scan_pte_hole()\n calls uffd_wp_range() while walk_hugetlb_range() holds the hugetlb\n vma lock for read, and hugetlb_change_protection() then takes it\n for write. Install the marker inline instead.\n\n 4: mm/huge_memory: change_non_present_huge_pmd() drops pmd_swp_uffd_wp\n on a device-private PMD permission downgrade, silently losing the\n uffd-wp marker.\n\n 5: userfaultfd: must_wait() applies pte_write() to a locklessly read\n PTE without checking pte_present(), so swap/migration entries\n decode random offset bits and a thread can stay parked on a stale\n fault.\n\n 6: userfaultfd: __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS feeds VMA_UFFD_MINOR_BIT (41) to\n mk_vma_flags() unconditionally, an out-of-bounds write into the\n single-word vma_flags_t on 32-bit. Build the mask from config-gated\n per-mode masks so an unavailable bit is never materialised.\n\n\nThis patch (of 6):\n\nmake_uffd_wp_huge_pte() arms the UFFD_WP bit on a present HugeTLB PTE by\ncalling huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit() with a ptent snapshot that was\nfetched without the corresponding huge_ptep_modify_prot_start(). The\nstart helper is what atomically clears the entry so the kernel-owned\nsnapshot stays consistent until the commit; without it, the hardware may\nset Dirty or Accessed in the live PTE between the original read and the\ncommit, and huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit() (whose generic implementation\njust calls set_huge_pte_at()) then writes the stale snapshot back over the\nlive hardware bits, losing the update.\n\nThe non-hugetlb sibling make_uffd_wp_pte() does this correctly via\nptep_modify_prot_start() / ptep_modify_prot_commit(). Mirror that pattern\nfor the present-PTE branch. The migration case stays as-is -- migration\nentries are non-present, so there's no hardware update to race against." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"50a25249a6355db74c2c1b6be541b4caab9f3655"},{"version":"52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8e39ed92d7c5c6bfc08dc45153916f49a4e98bab"},{"version":"52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b7f774b8882445d9174681747d37c42548686a4"},{"version":"52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"04718f7c9290f95385f0dd328758753dc1c36dec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.7"},{"version":"6.12.101","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.1.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.1.*"},{"version":"7.2","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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