Bug 2540260 (CVE-2026-93233) - CVE-2026-93233 kernel: drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split
Summary: CVE-2026-93233 kernel: drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large fo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-93233
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-24 15:55 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-11 13:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-24 15:55:11 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split

nouveau_dmem_folio_free() drops chunk->callocated once per freed folio,
while a large (compound) device-private folio is only counted once when
it is allocated.  When such a folio is split, the mm core invokes
->folio_split() (nouveau_dmem_folio_split()) once for each new
sub-folio, but the hook only fixes up the sub-folio metadata and leaves
chunk->callocated unchanged.

Each resulting sub-folio is later freed separately, so after a split
the single allocation (+1) is met by N frees (-N), leaving
chunk->callocated short by N-1.  On the first split/free cycle it
underflows: WARN_ON(!chunk->callocated) fires, the unsigned counter
wraps and never returns to zero, so the chunk can no longer be
reclaimed (nouveau_dmem_fini() also warns on the leaked count).

Account for the new sub-folio in the split hook, under the same lock as
nouveau_dmem_folio_free(), so the count stays balanced.


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