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mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem

Published Oct 6, 2026 · Updated Oct 19, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

mm/shrinker: fix bogus set_shrinker_bit() with cgroup.memory=nokmem

With cgroup.memory=nokmem, shrinker_memcg_alloc() bails out early and
never allocates an id, so shrinker->id keeps the 0 it got from the
kzalloc() in shrinker_alloc(). __list_lru_init() then copies that 0 into
lru->shrinker_id, where it looks like a valid bit index.

Nothing calls expand_shrinker_info() on nokmem either, so shrinker_nr_max
stays 0 and every memcg ends up with an empty map (map_nr_max == 0).

deferred_split_folio() hands a real memcg to __list_lru_add() regardless
of whether the lru is memcg aware, so the first THP queued in a cgroup
does set_shrinker_bit(memcg, nid, 0) and trips the bounds check:

WARNING: mm/shrinker.c:212 at set_shrinker_bit+0x7d/0x90, CPU#126
Call Trace:
<TASK>
deferred_split_folio+0x18c/0x220
map_anon_folio_pmd_nopf+0xdd/0x130
map_anon_folio_pmd_pf+0x14/0xb0
do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0x1a1/0x620
__handle_mm_fault+0xea9/0x10d0
handle_mm_fault+0xe5/0x320
do_user_addr_fault+0x1cc/0x870
exc_page_fault+0x81/0x1b0
asm_exc_page_fault+0x27/0x30
</TASK>

Harmless, the WARN_ON_ONCE() is what keeps the out of bounds unit[] read
from happening, but the id should not look valid in the first place.
Clear it before returning.

Two other spots could paper over this: drop the id in __list_lru_init()
when nokmem turns memcg_aware off, or make deferred_split_folio() pass
NULL like list_lru_add_obj() does. Both leave shrinker->id lying around
for the next caller, so fix it where the id is handed out.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 7.2 7.2.8

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 7.2.8-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +25 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 +1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed kernel-source 7.2.10-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12131-1

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