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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-93233"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-24T15:32:51.743Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:07:44.949Z"
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-2026-93233"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-93233.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93233"
title: "drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndrm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split\n\nnouveau_dmem_folio_free() drops chunk-\u003ecallocated once per freed folio,\nwhile a large (compound) device-private folio is only counted once when\nit is allocated.  When such a folio is split, the mm core invokes\n-\u003efolio_split() (nouveau_dmem_folio_split()) once for each new\nsub-folio, but the hook only fixes up the sub-folio metadata and leaves\nchunk-\u003ecallocated unchanged.\n\nEach resulting sub-folio is later freed separately, so after a split\nthe single allocation (+1) is met by N frees (-N), leaving\nchunk-\u003ecallocated short by N-1.  On the first split/free cycle it\nunderflows: WARN_ON(!chunk-\u003ecallocated) fires, the unsigned counter\nwraps and never returns to zero, so the chunk can no longer be\nreclaimed (nouveau_dmem_fini() also warns on the leaked count).\n\nAccount for the new sub-folio in the split hook, under the same lock as\nnouveau_dmem_folio_free(), so the count stays balanced."
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