# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93218"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:10:41.370Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:29.994Z"
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-2026-93218"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93218.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93218"
title: "mm/huge_memory: skip device-private PMDs in madvise_free_huge_pmd"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/huge_memory: skip device-private PMDs in madvise_free_huge_pmd\n\nmadvise_free_pte_range() checks pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) unlocked, then\nmadvise_free_huge_pmd() takes pmd_trans_huge_lock().  pmd_is_huge()\nreturns true for a device-private PMD, so orig_pmd can be device-private\nand enter the !pmd_present() branch.\n\nSkip device-private PMDs in that non-present branch and continue to out\nbefore calling pmd_folio().  Downgrade the check to VM_WARN_ON_ONCE() so\nan unexpected PMD softleaf logs a warning rather than panicking.  Drop the\nthp_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 madvise(MADV_FREE):\nmigrate_vma_pages() flips the PMD to a device-private entry between the\ncaller's pmd_trans_huge() check and the callee's pmd_trans_huge_lock()."
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