CVE-2026-53109

CVE-2026-53109 concerns a Linux kernel PowerPC page-table fragment bug. In Hash 64K page setups, pte_frag_destroy can leave a folio active while fragments are freed, causing a “Bad page state” error on exit. The fix involves clearing the folio active flag during do_exit/pagetable teardown and inc...

CVE-2026-53109 powerpc/pgtable-frag: Fix bad page state in pte_frag_destroy

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: powerpc/pgtable-frag: Fix bad page state in ptefragdestroy powerpc uses ptfragrefcount as a reference counter for tracking it's pte and pmd page table fragments. For PTE table, in case of Hash with 64K pagesize, we have 16...