Bug 2536673 (CVE-2026-90303) - CVE-2026-90303 kernel: ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults
Summary: CVE-2026-90303 kernel: ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_p...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-90303
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-17 19:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-13 13:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-17 19:04:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ARM: 9485/1: mm: acquire mmap write lock around show_pte() for user faults

When CONFIG_DEBUG_USER=y, and cmdline "user_debug=31" is set,
a user fault may trigger show_pte() without any lock.
If another thread in the same process concurrently calls munmap(),
the page table pages may be freed while show_pte() is still traversing
them, causing a use-after-free in show_pte().

If CONFIG_ARM_LPAE=y, this may cause a kernel panic if the pages table
of PMD are freed when show_pte() is running.

Acquire mmap_write_lock() around show_pte() for user faults to fix the
contention.

For user faults, additionally restrict that show_pte() is called only
when the addr is a user-space address (addr < TASK_SIZE). This is because
the lock of tsk->mm only protects the virtual memory of user address space,
furthermore, dumping the page tables of a kernel-space address for user
faults is unnecessary and may have security implications.

Keep everything unchanged for kernel faults, because the kernel is
already in the "oops" state, acquiring a lock may risk a deadlock.


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