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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93197"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-17T16:12:19.776Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:09.510Z"
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-2026-93197"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93197.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93197"
title: "memcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmemcg: move LRU size accounting on reparenting instead of copying it\n\nWhen a memory cgroup is offlined its LRU folios are reparented to the\nparent.  lruvec_reparent_lru() splices the child's lists into the\nparent's and credits the parent with the child's per-zone\nlru_zone_size[], but never clears the child's copy, so the size is\ncopied rather than moved.  lru_gen_reparent_memcg() does the same for\nMGLRU.\n\nThe parent is left correct, credited with exactly the folios it took\nover.  The stale value sits on the child and nothing will correct it:\nfolio-\u003ememcg_data now resolves to the parent, so every later\nupdate_lru_size() for those folios goes there.\n\nDying cgroups are not freed immediately and mem_cgroup_iter() still\nwalks them, so shrink_lruvec() keeps being called on them.\nget_scan_count() reads the phantom counter through lruvec_lru_size() and\nthe scan loop then grinds through nr[] in SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX steps against\nan empty list, for as long as the dead cgroup lives.  Under MGLRU the\nMGLRU scanner runs instead, but count_shadow_nodes() sums all of\nNR_LRU_LISTS through lruvec_lru_size() and over-budgets the shadow node\nlimit just the same.\n\nOn one 251 GiB host a sweep of every mz-\u003elru_zone_size[] found 380\ncounters describing folios on no list at all: 124777314 pages, 476 GiB,\n1.89x the machine's RAM, across 57 cgroups.  All were on memcgs with\nCSS_DYING set and CSS_ONLINE clear, and parent/child pairs reported\nbyte-identical sizes.\n\nLRU_UNEVICTABLE needs its size moved too.  Its list is deliberately not\nspliced because lruvec_init() poisons the head - the unevictable LRU is\nimaginary and folios are never threaded on it - but the size is kept by\nlruvec_add_folio()/lruvec_del_folio() and those folios account to the\nparent from here on.\n\nThis depends on commit bf4ade7dbd76 (\"memcg: keep folio's objcg same as\nits node\") and must not be backported ahead of it.  Without that\ninvariant a folio's objcg can belong to another node, so a folio already\nspliced onto the parent's list can still resolve to the child's lruvec\nuntil the objcg's node is reparented in a later iteration of\nmemcg_reparent_objcgs(); clearing the child's counter early then lets\nlruvec_del_folio() underflow it and trip the WARN_ONCE()/VM_BUG_ON() in\nmem_cgroup_update_lru_size()."
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