{"cve":"CVE-2026-93217","nvd":{"published":"2026-09-24T16:17:16.790","modified":"2026-10-19T10:17:12.627","status":"Received","description":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/madvise: skip device-private PMDs in cold and pageout walks\n\nmadvise_cold_or_pageout_pte_range() takes pmd_trans_huge_lock(), whose\npmd_is_huge() check returns true for a device-private PMD.  The subsequent\n!pmd_present() branch has a VM_BUG_ON() asserting migration is the only\nallowed non-present case; a device-private PMD trips it.\n\nSkip device-private PMDs in that non-present branch and continue to\nhuge_unlock before calling pmd_folio().  Downgrade the check to\nVM_WARN_ON_ONCE() so an unexpected PMD softleaf logs a warning rather than\npanicking.  Drop the thp_migration_supported() guard: it expands to\nIS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_PMD_SOFTLEAF), and both\npmd_is_migration_entry() and pmd_is_device_private_entry() already return\nfalse when that config is not selected, so the guard suppresses only the\ncase where the warning would already be silent.\n\nPotential trigger: an HMM-based GPU driver races with\nmadvise(MADV_COLD)/MADV_PAGEOUT: pmd_trans_huge(*pmd) reads true, then\nmigrate_vma_pages() flips the PMD to a device-private entry before the PMD\nlock is acquired.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":[],"references":["https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c0d7b658cda62cd17cb3652783386d5608030ef","https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d4b76d0b03cb49611312ecc4bcfb55ccdf0843e2"],"products":[],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:56:02.509636177+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2026-93217","score":0.00155,"percentile":0.04645,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}