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GHSA-8WJG-7MHV-9G56

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-15 06:32 – Updated: 2026-08-15 06:32

Details

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES

When using scratch_scale, the scratch sizes are rounded up to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES since they will be released as MIGRATE_CMA. This is not done when using fixed scratch sizes via command line. This can result in user specifying a size which is not aligned, and thus kernel releasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch.

Do the rounding up for both cases in scratch_size_update().

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CVE-2026-72169 (GCVE-0-2026-72169)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-15 05:53 – Updated: 2026-08-17 05:09

Title

kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES When using scratch_scale, the scratch sizes are rounded up to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES since they will be released as MIGRATE_CMA. This is not done when using fixed scratch sizes via command line. This can result in user specifying a size which is not aligned, and thus kernel releasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch. Do the rounding up for both cases in scratch_size_update().

Severity

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8271be34bce15159…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9fefab759f59bf891…
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e39380a7316122e1…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
Linux	Linux	Affected: 3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 , < b8271be34bce151597da5b5179e0648c281322a4 (git) Affected: 3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 , < 9fefab759f59bf891bef7be15aee4bc7caec7ec3 (git) Affected: 3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 , < 0e39380a7316122e1b00012b3f3cd3e318b3e7d3 (git)
Linux	Linux	Affected: 6.16 Unaffected: 0 , < 6.16 (semver) Unaffected: 6.18.42 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.1.5 , ≤ 7.1.* (semver) Unaffected: 7.2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-8WJG-7MHV-9G56

CVE-2026-72169 (GCVE-0-2026-72169)

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