CVE-2026-46280

lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

HIGH
7.8
CVSS Score
Published: June 8, 2026 at 03:41 PM UTC
Updated: October 19, 2026 at 08:18 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Severity
HIGH7.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.1%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free Patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups". Two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests. These were mostly reported by Zenghui Yu with special thanks to Lorenzo for analysing and pointing out the problems. This patch (of 3): When dmirror_fops_release() is called it frees the dmirror struct but doesn't migrate device private pages back to system memory first. This leaves those pages with a dangling zone_device_data pointer to the freed dmirror. If a subsequent fault occurs on those pages (eg. during coredump) the dmirror_devmem_fault() callback dereferences the stale pointer causing a kernel panic. This was reported [1] when running mm/ksft_hmm.sh on arm64, where a test failure triggered SIGABRT and the resulting coredump walked the VMAs faulting in the stale device private pages. Fix this by calling dmirror_device_evict_chunk() for each devmem chunk in dmirror_fops_release() to migrate all device private pages back to system memory before freeing the dmirror struct. The function is moved earlier in the file to avoid a forward declaration.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.8 ≤ v < 6.1.1766.13 ≤ v < 6.18.276.19 ≤ v < 7.0.46.2 ≤ v < 6.6.1406.7 ≤ v < 6.12.865.8b2ef9f5a5cb37643ca5def3516c546457074b882
Vendor states this is fixed in 234071b4318feaeb27cd2e4e1b16ef6b055adf89 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 38f113f81d3f0adc658a4475dd3ecaec985e21d3 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5846715b6382dd4c6a69b35a56ca6115d33bc2a0 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 744dd97752ef1076a8d8672bb0d8aa2c7abc1144 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 9de1eb0aac2862d6144b8db0ec1388e79f8bc3e1 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in bf477abd448c76bb8ea51c9b4f63a3a17c4b6239 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5.8 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.1.176 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.86 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18.27 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.6.140 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.0.4 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 7.1 (unaffected)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

7.8HIGHLinux
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-416

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