Upstream information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:mm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp at fork()
copy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of migration and hwpoison
entries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the present-PTE
bit position. Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere -- the
migration branch reads and sets it with pte_swp_uffd_wp() and
pte_swp_mkuffd_wp() -- and the present-PTE position falls into the swap
payload. On x86-64 it lands in the inverted swap offset, where a
naturally-aligned hugetlb PFN always has the affected bit set, so the
clear advances the encoded PFN by two pages.
No userfaultfd needs to be involved: the clear is guarded only by the
child VMA not being uffd-wp registered, so a plain fork() with an
in-flight hugetlb migration entry (or a poisoned hugetlb page) corrupts
the entry copied into the child. Instrumenting the clear and forking
after MADV_HWPOISON on a 2MB anon hugetlb page shows:
offset before=120e00
offset after =120e02
The fallout is mostly latent: rmap walks match migration entries by folio
range and remove_migration_pte() rebuilds the PTE from the folio, so a
within-folio PFN skew heals once migration completes. But any path that
re-encodes the corrupted offset -- e.g. hugetlb_change_protection()
rewriting a writable migration entry via
make_readable_migration_entry(swp_offset(entry)) -- propagates it.
Migration entries legitimately carry uffd-wp, so clear it with
pte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and
move_huge_pte().
A hwpoison entry, on the other hand, never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is
installed fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() (try_to_unmap_one() does not
preserve uffd-wp on the hwpoison path) and hugetlb_change_protection()
leaves hwpoison entries untouched. There was nothing to clear there, only
the corruption, so drop the clear entirely.
SUSE information
Overall state of this security issue: Analysis
This issue is currently rated as having not set severity.
Note from the SUSE Security Team on the kernel-default package
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| Product(s) | Source package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Products under general support and receiving all security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 16.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.3 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP7 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension 15 SP7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.0 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.1 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro 6.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.0 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Micro Extras 6.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 16.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| Products under Long Term Service Pack support and receiving important and critical security fixes. | ||
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 LTSS EXTREME CORE | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP5-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server LTSS Extended Security 12 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore. | ||
| SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Enterprise Storage 7.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15 SP6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-ESPOS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.0 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.1 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Real Time 15 SP5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP2-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-BCL | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-default | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP3-LTSS | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Proxy LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.0 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.1 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.2 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Manager Server LTS 4.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.3 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.4 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | kernel-source | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.5 | kernel-source-rt | Analysis |
| openSUSE Leap 15.6 | kernel-source | Analysis |
SUSE Timeline for this CVE
CVE page created: Fri Sep 4 21:48:44 2026CVE page last modified: Fri Sep 4 21:48:44 2026