kernel: Linux kernel: Denial of Service due to a deadlock in hugetlb folio migration

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. A local attacker could exploit a deadlock vulnerability due to incorrect lock ordering between foliolock and immaprwsem when migrating hugetlb file-backed folios. This could lead to hung tasks and potential system-wide stalls, resulting in a Denial of Service...

CVE-2026-23097: Undefined Security Weakness

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: migrate: correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios Syzbot has found a deadlock analyzed by Lance Yang: 1 Task 5749: Holds foliolock, then tries to acquire immaprwsemread lock. 2 Task 5754: Holds immaprwsemwrite lock, then tri...

CVE-2024-36882 mm: use memalloc_nofs_save() in page_cache_ra_order()

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: use memallocnofssave in pagecacheraorder See commit f2c817bed58d "mm: use memallocnofssave in readahead path", ensure that pagecacheraorder do not attempt to reclaim file-backed pages too, or it leads to a deadlock, found iss...