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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-90201"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:07:18.838Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T08:59:37.392Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-90201"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-90201.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-90201"
title: "net: page_pool: fix UAF in __page_pool_release_netmem_dma on xa_cmpxchg race"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: page_pool: fix UAF in __page_pool_release_netmem_dma on xa_cmpxchg race\n\nThis bug was discovered while testing the hns3 driver under channel\nreconfiguration (`ethtool -L` / `ethtool -G`) with iperf3 traffic on\narm64. The race is intermittently triggered when page_pool_destroy()\nruns page_pool_scrub() concurrently with page return via\npage_pool_put_netmem() on a different CPU. A WARN in\npage_pool_clear_pp_info() surfaced the dangling DMA index bits left\nby the cmpxchg loser, which led to the investigation.\n\npage_pool_scrub() iterates pool-\u003edma_mapped via xa_for_each() with no\npage ref held. __page_pool_release_netmem_dma() currently reads and\nwrites netmem fields (dma_addr, DMA index bits in pp_magic) after\nxa_cmpxchg() returns. The unref path calls put_page() unconditionally\nregardless of the cmpxchg outcome; when it loses the cmpxchg, it still\nfrees the page before the scrub winner finishes these netmem accesses,\nso scrub touches a freed page -- a Use-After-Free.\n\nFix this by splitting the DMA release into two functions:\n\n1. __page_pool_unmap_netmem_dma() caches dma_addr before xa_cmpxchg(),\n   does the cmpxchg to remove the DMA mapping, and calls dma_unmap on\n   the cached address. It never touches netmem fields after the cmpxchg,\n   making it safe for the scrub path which holds no page ref.\n\n2. __page_pool_release_netmem_dma() wraps the above and additionally\n   clears dma_addr and DMA index bits in netmem fields. This is safe\n   only when the caller holds a page ref, so it is used by the return\n   path (page_pool_return_netmem).\n\nThe scrub path calls __page_pool_unmap_netmem_dma() directly; the return\npath calls __page_pool_release_netmem_dma()."
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