FKIE_CVE-2026-98505

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-10-18 16:17 - Updated: 2026-10-21 13:21
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/vaddr: avoid hw-driven pte updates during damon_hugetlb_mkold() damon_hugetlb_mkold() reads the page table entry into a local variable, unsets the accessed bit in the variable, and updates the page table entry with the updated variable value. If hardware updates the same page table entry in parallel, the hw updates could be lost. For example, hardware-updated dirty bits might be lost. Avoid the parallel updates by clearing the page table entry when reading it together, using huge_ptep_get_and_clear(). If a parallel write to the memory is made after the clearing, the hw will see the page table entry is cleared, trigger page fault and wait until it is handled. The page fault handling will wait for damon_hugetlb_mkold() due to the page table lock. Because hugetlbfs is an in-memory file system and hugetlb pages cannot be reclaimed, no critical issue is expected to my best knowledge. But definitely this is a nasty bug that should be fixed sooner rather than later. The issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00457981327c80bcc56e07d4714fe189337a19fa
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/39c0ceedd54557bdc1542de08d22b2ed33e534e4
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e74ffc9ecf6ec24eee117150da78a1102be74c5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7ed1062d154ec2401f2c894fd6858598bb1160b6
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e59cb7eda7c06334a0faf5aa44adb6acf2a1287a
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/damon/vaddr: avoid hw-driven pte updates during damon_hugetlb_mkold()\n\ndamon_hugetlb_mkold() reads the page table entry into a local variable,\nunsets the accessed bit in the variable, and updates the page table entry\nwith the updated variable value.  If hardware updates the same page table\nentry in parallel, the hw updates could be lost.  For example,\nhardware-updated dirty bits might be lost.\n\nAvoid the parallel updates by clearing the page table entry when reading\nit together, using huge_ptep_get_and_clear().  If a parallel write to the\nmemory is made after the clearing, the hw will see the page table entry is\ncleared, trigger page fault and wait until it is handled.  The page fault\nhandling will wait for damon_hugetlb_mkold() due to the page table lock.\n\nBecause hugetlbfs is an in-memory file system and hugetlb pages cannot be\nreclaimed, no critical issue is expected to my best knowledge.  But\ndefinitely this is a nasty bug that should be fixed sooner rather than\nlater.\n\nThe issue was discovered [1] by Sashiko."
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  "id": "CVE-2026-98505",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-21T13:21:32.130",
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  "published": "2026-10-18T16:17:01.610",
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