mm, shmem: prevent infinite loop on truncate race (Linux Linux)

CVE-2026-23177
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 9 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, shmem: prevent infinite loop on truncate race When truncating a large swap entry, shmem_free_swap() returns 0 when the entry's index doesn't match the given index due to lookup alignment. The failure fallback path checks if the entry crosses the end border and aborts when it happens, so truncate won't erase an unexpected entry or range. But one scenario was ignored. When `index` points to the middle of a large swap entry, and the large swap entry doesn't go across the end border, find_get_entries() will return that large swap entry as the first item in the batch with `indices[0]` equal to `index`. The entry's base index will be smaller than `indices[0]`, so shmem_free_swap() will fail and return 0 due to the "base < index" check. The code will then call shmem_confirm_swap(), get the order, check if it crosses the END boundary (which it doesn't), and retry with the same index. The next iteration will find the same entry again at the same index with same indices, leading to an infinite loop. Fix this by retrying with a round-down index, and abort if the index is smaller than the truncate range.

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CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 809bc86517cc408b5b8cb8e08e69096639432bc8 < dfc3ab6bd64860f8022d69903be299d09be86e11 ; affected 809bc86517cc408b5b8cb8e08e69096639432bc8 < 7b6a0f121d50234aab3e7ab9a62ebe826d40a32a ; affected 809bc86517cc408b5b8cb8e08e69096639432bc8 < 2030dddf95451b4e7a389f052091e7c4b7b274c6
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.12 ; unaffected 0 < 6.12 ; unaffected 6.12.70 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.18.10 ≤ 6.18.* ; unaffected 6.19 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
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EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD