Bug 2525454 (CVE-2026-80685) - CVE-2026-80685 kernel: mm/util: don't read __page_2 for order-1 folios in snapshot_page()
Summary: CVE-2026-80685 kernel: mm/util: don't read __page_2 for order-1 folios in sna...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80685
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-08-28 07:45 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 11:53 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-28 07:45:47 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/util: don't read __page_2 for order-1 folios in snapshot_page()

snapshot_page() currently reads __page_2 after checking nr_pages > 1, but
it should only do so when nr_pages > 2.

If an order-1 folio is allocated at the end of a vmemmap section,
__page_2 will not exist and reading it will cause a fault.

During DLPAR memory remove on a 22 TB ppc64le LPAR, snapshot_page() oopsed
on the page isolation path while reading an order-1 folio's __page_2 from
an adjacent absent section (unmapped vmemmap).

Fix this to avoid reading memmap that doesn't exist (e.g., a vmemmap
hole).


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