CVE-2026-46280

Technical Description

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

lib: test_hmm: evict device pages on file close to avoid use-after-free

Patch series "Minor hmm_test fixes and cleanups".

Two bugfixes a cleanup for the HMM kernel selftests. These were mostly

reported by Zenghui Yu with special thanks to Lorenzo for analysing and

pointing out the problems.

This patch (of 3):

When dmirror_fops_release() is called it frees the dmirror struct but

doesn't migrate device private pages back to system memory first. This

leaves those pages with a dangling zone_device_data pointer to the freed

dmirror.

If a subsequent fault occurs on those pages (eg. during coredump) the

dmirror_devmem_fault() callback dereferences the stale pointer causing a

kernel panic. This was reported [1] when running mm/ksft_hmm.sh on arm64,

where a test failure triggered SIGABRT and the resulting coredump walked

the VMAs faulting in the stale device private pages.

Fix this by calling dmirror_device_evict_ch

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References