CVE-2026-80893

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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.

Severity

Not scored

CVSS score

Not available

Vulnerability status

Received

Source identifier

416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67

Published

2026-09-04 18:17:57.467000

Last modified

2026-11-06 17:20:01.237000

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  "published": "2026-09-04T18:17:57.467",
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      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/hugetlb: fix swap entry corruption when clearing uffd-wp at fork()\n\ncopy_hugetlb_page_range() clears the uffd-wp bit of migration and hwpoison\nentries with huge_pte_clear_uffd_wp(), which operates on the present-PTE\nbit position.  Swap entries keep the uffd-wp state elsewhere -- the\nmigration branch reads and sets it with pte_swp_uffd_wp() and\npte_swp_mkuffd_wp() -- and the present-PTE position falls into the swap\npayload.  On x86-64 it lands in the inverted swap offset, where a\nnaturally-aligned hugetlb PFN always has the affected bit set, so the\nclear advances the encoded PFN by two pages.\n\nNo userfaultfd needs to be involved: the clear is guarded only by the\nchild VMA not being uffd-wp registered, so a plain fork() with an\nin-flight hugetlb migration entry (or a poisoned hugetlb page) corrupts\nthe entry copied into the child.  Instrumenting the clear and forking\nafter MADV_HWPOISON on a 2MB anon hugetlb page shows:\n\n  offset before=120e00\n  offset after =120e02\n\nThe fallout is mostly latent: rmap walks match migration entries by folio\nrange and remove_migration_pte() rebuilds the PTE from the folio, so a\nwithin-folio PFN skew heals once migration completes.  But any path that\nre-encodes the corrupted offset -- e.g.  hugetlb_change_protection()\nrewriting a writable migration entry via\nmake_readable_migration_entry(swp_offset(entry)) -- propagates it.\n\nMigration entries legitimately carry uffd-wp, so clear it with\npte_swp_clear_uffd_wp(), matching copy_nonpresent_pte() and\nmove_huge_pte().\n\nA hwpoison entry, on the other hand, never carries the uffd-wp bit: it is\ninstalled fresh by make_hwpoison_entry() (try_to_unmap_one() does not\npreserve uffd-wp on the hwpoison path) and hugetlb_change_protection()\nleaves hwpoison entries untouched.  There was nothing to clear there, only\nthe corruption, so drop the clear entirely."
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