Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/filemap: fix filemap_get_folios_contig THP panic
Patch series "memfd-pin huge page fixes".
Fix multiple bugs that occur when using memfd_pin_folios with hugetlb
pages and THP. The hugetlb bugs only bite when the page is not yet
faulted in when memfd_pin_folios is called. The THP bug bites when the
starting offset passed to memfd_pin_folios is not huge page aligned. See
the commit messages for details.
This patch (of 5):
memfd_pin_folios on memory backed by THP panics if the requested start
offset is not huge page aligned:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000036
RIP: 0010:filemap_get_folios_contig+0xdf/0x290
RSP: 0018:ffffc9002092fbe8 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000002
The fault occurs here, because xas_load returns a folio with value 2:
filemap_get_folios_contig()
for (folio = xas_load(&xas); folio && xas.xa_index <= end;
folio = xas_next(&xas)) {
...
if (!folio_try_get(folio)) <-- BOOM
"2" is an xarray sibling entry. We get it because memfd_pin_folios does
not round the indices passed to filemap_get_folios_contig to huge page
boundaries for THP, so we load from the middle of a huge page range see a
sibling. (It does round for hugetlbfs, at the is_file_hugepages test).
To fix, if the folio is a sibling, then return the next index as the
starting point for the next call to filemap_get_folios_contig.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 6.11 | 6.11.3 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | linux | 6.11.4-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | linux | 6.11.4-1 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-oem-6.11 | 6.11.0-1015.15 | USN-7310-1 |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | linux-raspi-realtime | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | linux-riscv +32 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | linux-gke +26 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | linux-gcp +13 | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | linux-hwe-edge | No fix yet | — |
openSUSE
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | kernel-source | 6.11.8-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1 |
| openSUSE Tumbleweed | kernel-source-longterm | 6.12.11-1.1 | openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1 |
Advisories 4
- WID-SEC-2024-3251 Linux Kernel: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of Service BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 11, 2026
- USN-7310-1 linux-oem-6.11 vulnerabilities Ubuntu Security Notices (USN) · Nov 3, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1 kernel-devel-longterm-6.12.11-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026
- openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1 kernel-devel-6.11.8-1.1 on GA media SUSE / openSUSE Security Updates · Feb 4, 2026