CVE-2026-72173

Summary

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

fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry

Patch series "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest", v3.

Patch 1 fixes a stale warning present from the time when only migration softleaf entries were supported at the PMD level.

Patch 2 adds some code into hmm-tests.c which exercises the pagemap path for PMD device-private entries.

This patch (of 2):

pagemap_pmd_range_thp() warns if a non-present PMD is not a migration entry. This became false once device-private entries at the PMD level were added.

Therefore, remove the stale migration-only assertion.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxa30b48bf1b244f11bf9b6d20cdccfe0c2264130c < 319caaca072adc564ac9c5357ed013909f23d5abaffected
LinuxLinuxa30b48bf1b244f11bf9b6d20cdccfe0c2264130c < cd1fc0e3c1f67c0c31dfc215e5d9b771133dedc0affected
LinuxLinux6.19affected
LinuxLinux0 < 6.19unaffected
LinuxLinux7.1.5 <= 7.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux7.2 <= *unaffected

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