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CVE-2026-46017
mm: fix deferred split queue races during migration
Published 2026-05-27 (5 months ago) by the Linux kernel CNA. Subsystem mm. Debian urgency: not yet assigned.
What to do, per Debian release
Debian's own status for CVE-2026-46017 in every release this site tracks, and what each one means in practice. Every status below is the one the Debian Security Team publishes for this CVE. source
| Release | Status | Version | What this means |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 12bookworm | vulnerable | 6.1.190-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series bookworm tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for bookworm have historically landed a median of 23 days after publication. |
| Debian 13trixie | vulnerable | 6.12.113-1 | No fix published anywhere yet, neither in Debian nor upstream for the series trixie tracks. Watch the Debian tracker page for this CVE. Advisories for trixie have historically landed a median of 11 days after publication. |
| Debian 14forky | fixed | 7.0.4-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.0.4-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
| Debian unstablesid | fixed | 7.0.4-1 | Update the kernel and reboot. Fixed in 7.0.4-1. A running kernel keeps the old code until the machine restarts. |
The vulnerability
What the bug is
migrate_folio_move() records the deferred split queue state from src and replays it on dst. Replaying it after remove_migration_ptes(src, dst, 0) makes dst visible before it is requeued, so a concurrent rmap-removal path can mark dst partially mapped and trip the WARN in deferred_split_folio(). Move the requeue before remove_migration_ptes() so dst is back on the deferred split queue before it becomes visible again. Because migration still holds dst locked at that point, teach deferred_split_scan() to requeue a folio when folio_trylock() fails. Otherwise a fully mapped underused folio can be dequeued by the shrinker and silently lost from split_queue. [ziy@nvidia.com: move the comment]
Where it lives
The fix touches these files. If the subsystem is one you do not use, the practical exposure is lower, though the package is still the vulnerable one.
mm/huge_memory.c
mm/migrate.c
- What this is
- MEMORY MANAGEMENT - THP (TRANSPARENT HUGE PAGE)MAINTAINERS section matched on mm/huge_memory.c · linux-mm@kvack.org · Maintained
Check it on the machine
grep -w CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE /boot/config-$(uname -r)Reads the booted kernel's own configuration, on the machine and nowhere else. =y is built in, =m is a module, and an is not set line means the code is not there.
Show whether Debian builds this, per release
Debian builds this, but not on every flavour. At least one release below builds the code on some of its kernel flavours and not on others, so the answer depends on the architecture and flavour installed.
- bookwormYnot built on amd64/rt/amd64, arm64/rt/arm64, armhf/armmp, armhf/rt/armmp, i386/rt/686-pae
- trixieYnot built on amd64/rt/amd64, arm64/rt/arm64, armel/rpi, armhf/armmp, armhf/rt/armmp
- forky, sidYnot built on amd64/rt-amd64, arm64/rt-arm64, armhf/armmp
- Y
- built in where it is built at all; some flavours do not build it
- Build switch
- CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
From the configuration Debian publishes for every kernel flavour it builds. It covers only the architectures Debian ships a linux-config package for, and nothing about a kernel you built yourself. Debian's own status above stays authoritative about the source package.MAINTAINERS kbuild Makefiles Debian linux-config packages
Signals
- Published
- 2026-05-27 (5 months ago)source
- CVSS
- no vector published, unrated
- Attack vector
- not published
- EPSS
- 0.10%, higher than 0.7% of all CVEssource
- CISA KEV
- not listedthe KEV catalogue
- Debian urgency
- not yet assignedsource
- Subsystem
- mm
Upstream fixes
The versions the CNA records as introducing and fixing this, and the commit for each. source
| Introduced | Fixed in | Commit |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 7.0.4 | cbf75cf212ee |
| 0 | 7.1 | 3bac01168982 |
Why the CNA scored it this way
The kernel CNA published no CVSS vector and no reasoning for CVE-2026-46017, which is why it is shown as unrated rather than given an invented score. 6,405 of the 20,413 CVEs here carry reasoning; this is not one of them.