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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93217"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:10:40.487Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:29.053Z"
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-2026-93217"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93217.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93217"
title: "mm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks\n\nmadvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() takes pmd_trans_huge_lock(), whose\npmd_is_huge() check returns true for a device-private PMD.  The subsequent\n!pmd_present() branch has a VM_BUG_ON() asserting migration is the only\nallowed non-present case; a device-private PMD trips it.\n\nSkip device-private PMDs in that non-present branch and continue to\nhuge_unlock before calling pmd_folio().  Downgrade the check to\nVM_WARN_ON_ONCE() so an unexpected PMD softleaf logs a warning rather than\npanicking.  Drop the thp_migration_supported() guard: it expands to\nIS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_SOFTLEAF), and both\npmd_is_migration_entry() and pmd_is_device_private_entry() already return\nfalse when that config is not selected, so the guard suppresses only the\ncase where the warning would already be silent.\n\nPotential trigger: an HMM-based GPU driver races with\nmadvise(MADV_COLD)/MADV_PAGEOUT: pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) reads true, then\nmigrate_vma_pages() flips the PMD to a device-private entry before the PMD\nlock is acquired."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5c0d7b658cda62cd17cb3652783386d5608030ef"},{"version":"368076f52ebeecd33e10a9f80905d7508b6b6149","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d4b76d0b03cb49611312ecc4bcfb55ccdf0843e2"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.19","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.19"},{"version":"7.2.4","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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