CVE-2026-64302 x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/mm: Fix freeing of PMD-sized vmemmap pages Commit bf9e4e30f353 "x86/mm: use pagetablefree", switched from freeing non-boot page tables through freepages to pagetablefree. However, the function is also called to free vmemmap...

kernel: mm/filemap: skip to create PMD-sized page cache if needed

A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel related to how large page caching is handled, particularly for AMD64 architectures. The issue stems from the xarray data structure's inability to support PMD-sized page caches when the base page size is larger than MAXPAGECACHEORDER. The particular...