CVE-2026-31575 PUBLISHED

mm/userfaultfd: fix hugetlb fault mutex hash calculation

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 09.03.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/userfaultfd: fix hugetlb fault mutex hash calculation

In mfill_atomic_hugetlb(), linear_page_index() is used to calculate the page index for hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash(). However, linear_page_index() returns the index in PAGE_SIZE units, while hugetlb_fault_mutex_hash() expects the index in huge page units. This mismatch means that different addresses within the same huge page can produce different hash values, leading to the use of different mutexes for the same huge page. This can cause races between faulting threads, which can corrupt the reservation map and trigger the BUG_ON in resv_map_release().

Fix this by introducing hugetlb_linear_page_index(), which returns the page index in huge page granularity, and using it in place of linear_page_index().

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 574501ede47ac439afd67ba9812bc66722d500ba (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to 08282b1bf74c69fc8ecd25493e7fdb5460f01290 (excl.)
  • affected from 1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2 to f4689fc089765d36c026063fb22d23533e883eb6 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • unaffected from 6.18.24 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.19.14 to 6.19.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.0.1 to 7.0.* (incl.)

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