CVE-2026-53154

mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths

published June 25, 2026

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
1.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths

Two sites in mm/hugetlb.c allocate a hugetlb folio via

alloc_hugetlb_folio() (consuming a VMA reservation) and then call

copy_user_large_folio(), which became int-returning in commit 1cb9dc4b475c

("mm: hwpoison: support recovery from HugePage copy-on-write faults") and

can now fail (e.g. -EHWPOISON on a hwpoisoned source page). On the

failure path, folio_put() restores the global hugetlb pool count through

free_huge_folio(), but the per-VMA reservation map entry is left marked

consumed:

- hugetlb_mfill_atomic_pte() resubmission path (UFFDIO_COPY)

- copy_hugetlb_page_range() fork-time CoW path when

hugetlb_try_dup_anon_rmap() fails (rare: pinned hugetlb anon

folio under fork)

User-visible effect: on UFFDIO_COPY into a private hugetlb VMA where the

resubmission copy fails, the reservation for that address is leaked from

the VMA's reserve map. A subsequent fault at the same address takes the

no-reservation path, and under hugetlb pool pressure the task is SIGBUSed

at an address it had previously reserved. The fork-time CoW path leaks

the same way in the child VMA's reserve map, though it requires the much

rarer combination of pinned hugetlb anon page + hwpoisoned source.

Add the missing restore_reserve_on_error() call before folio_put() on both

error paths.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00122 · 1.8th percentile
Published
2026-06-25T08:38Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUN 08:38Z
    mm/hugetlb: restore reservation on error in hugetlb folio copy paths
    cvelistv5