CVE-2026-72169

Summary

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

kho: make sure scratch size is always aligned by CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES

When using scratch_scale, the scratch sizes are rounded up to CMA_MIN_ALIGNMENT_BYTES since they will be released as MIGRATE_CMA. This is not done when using fixed scratch sizes via command line. This can result in user specifying a size which is not aligned, and thus kernel releasing a pageblock that is only partially scratch.

Do the rounding up for both cases in scratch_size_update().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinux3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 < b8271be34bce151597da5b5179e0648c281322a4affected
LinuxLinux3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 < 9fefab759f59bf891bef7be15aee4bc7caec7ec3affected
LinuxLinux3dc92c311498c4d307cfdd0c6c3ac9355b50f683 < 0e39380a7316122e1b00012b3f3cd3e318b3e7d3affected
LinuxLinux6.16affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.16unaffected
LinuxLinux6.18.42 <= 6.18.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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