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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-98225"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-06T08:45:00.458Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T09:15:57.057Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:41.756Z"
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-2026-98225"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-98225.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-98225"
title: "mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem\n\nWith cgroup.memory=nokmem, shrinker_memcg_alloc() bails out early and\nnever allocates an id, so shrinker-\u003eid keeps the 0 it got from the\nkzalloc() in shrinker_alloc().  __list_lru_init() then copies that 0 into\nlru-\u003eshrinker_id, where it looks like a valid bit index.\n\nNothing calls expand_shrinker_info() on nokmem either, so shrinker_nr_max\nstays 0 and every memcg ends up with an empty map (map_nr_max == 0).\n\ndeferred_split_folio() hands a real memcg to __list_lru_add() regardless\nof whether the lru is memcg aware, so the first THP queued in a cgroup\ndoes set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, 0) and trips the bounds check:\n\nWARNING: mm/shrinker.c:212 at set_shrinker_bit+0x7d/0x90, CPU#126\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n deferred_split_folio+0x18c/0x220\n map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf+0xdd/0x130\n map_anon_folio_pmd_pf+0x14/0xb0\n do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x1a1/0x620\n __handle_mm_fault+0xea9/0x10d0\n handle_mm_fault+0xe5/0x320\n do_user_addr_fault+0x1cc/0x870\n exc_page_fault+0x81/0x1b0\n asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n\nHarmless, the WARN_ON_ONCE() is what keeps the out of bounds unit[] read\nfrom happening, but the id should not look valid in the first place. \nClear it before returning.\n\nTwo other spots could paper over this: drop the id in __list_lru_init()\nwhen nokmem turns memcg_aware off, or make deferred_split_folio() pass\nNULL like list_lru_add_obj() does.  Both leave shrinker-\u003eid lying around\nfor the next caller, so fix it where the id is handed out."
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