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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93172"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:02.544Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-21T12:52:08.644Z"
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-2026-93172"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93172.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93172"
title: "mm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/mm_init: handle alloc_percpu failure in free_area_init_core_hotplug\n\nWe miss a failed allocation check for pgdat-\u003eper_cpu_nodestats, which\nresults in a NULL deref when we offset into the per-cpu area.\n\nPropagate -ENOMEM up the stack and leave per_cpu_nodestats pointing\nat boot_nodestats so a later online can retry the allocation.\n\nhotadd_init_pgdat() returns NULL on failure, which __try_online_node()\nalready maps to -ENOMEM.\n\nOn failure nothing needs to be unwound:\n  - the node is never marked online\n  - per_cpu_nodestats is left pointing at boot_nodestats\n  - __add_memory_resource() cleans up pending memblock resources\n  - later online attempts retry the per_cpu_nodestats allocation"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4dda09e7ca0bf0c3fa7c5c8f134d9804b67f455c"},{"version":"75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4cc5caef9a8d1894dfa31d84a0daa0ac1437dadc"},{"version":"75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bc3b5e6519b8df22d622a03eab6772784da97db4"},{"version":"75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1017fe1c7f48e511c5a680e3057005daaff2f3a2"},{"version":"75ef7184053989118d3814c558a9af62e7376a58","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2ebce860bdd7ae5e13002811bc9bbbf33fcfc221"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"4.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.8"},{"version":"6.6.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.110","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.18.52","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.18.*"},{"version":"7.2.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"7.2.*"},{"version":"7.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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