CVE-2026-72180

CVE-2026-72180 affects the Linux kernel’s huge memory handling (mm/huge_memory). The root cause is that during device-private PMD downgrade, the pmd_swp_uffd_wp flag can be lost when the swap entry is rewritten, allowing a plain mprotect() on a UFFD_WP-marked device-private THP to strip the flag ...