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Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 22, 2026 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 17, 2026

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Affected versions

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Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

mm/pagewalk: fix race between concurrent split and refault

The splitting of a PUD entry in walk_pud_range() can race with a
concurrent thread refaulting the PUD leaf entry causing it to try walking
a PMD range that has disappeared.

An example and reproduction of this is to try reading numa_maps of a
process while VFIO-PCI is setting up DMA (specifically the
vfio_pin_pages_remote call) on a large BAR for that process.

This will trigger a kernel BUG:
vfio-pci 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffa23980000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
...
RIP: 0010:walk_pgd_range+0x3b5/0x7a0
Code: 8d 43 ff 48 89 44 24 28 4d 89 ce 4d 8d a7 00 00 20 00 48 8b 4c 24
28 49 81 e4 00 00 e0 ff 49 8d 44 24 ff 48 39 c8 4c 0f 43 e3 <49> f7 06
9f ff ff ff 75 3b 48 8b 44 24 20 48 8b 40 28 48 85 c0 74
RSP: 0018:ffffac23e1ecf808 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: 00007f44c01fffff RBX: 00007f4500000000 RCX: 00007f44ffffffff
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000ffffffffff000 RDI: ffffffff93378fe0
RBP: ffffac23e1ecf918 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffffa23980000000
R10: 0000000000000020 R11: 0000000000000004 R12: 00007f44c0200000
R13: 00007f44c0000000 R14: ffffa23980000000 R15: 00007f44c0000000
FS: 00007fe884739580(0000) GS:ffff9b7d7a9c0000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffa23980000000 CR3: 000000c0650e2005 CR4: 0000000000770ef0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:

__walk_page_range+0x195/0x1b0
walk_page_vma+0x62/0xc0
show_numa_map+0x12b/0x3b0
seq_read_iter+0x297/0x440
seq_read+0x11d/0x140
vfs_read+0xc2/0x340
ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x68/0x130
? get_page_from_freelist+0x5c2/0x17e0
? mas_store_prealloc+0x17e/0x360
? vma_set_page_prot+0x4c/0xa0
? __alloc_pages_noprof+0x14e/0x2d0
? __mod_memcg_lruvec_state+0x8d/0x140
? __lruvec_stat_mod_folio+0x76/0xb0
? __folio_mod_stat+0x26/0x80
? do_anonymous_page+0x705/0x900
? __handle_mm_fault+0xa8d/0x1000
? __count_memcg_events+0x53/0xf0
? handle_mm_fault+0xa5/0x360
? do_user_addr_fault+0x342/0x640
? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare.constprop.0+0x16/0xa0
? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x24/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
RIP: 0033:0x7fe88464f47e
Code: c0 e9 b6 fe ff ff 50 48 8d 3d be 07 0b 00 e8 69 01 02 00 66 0f 1f
84 00 00 00 00 00 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 14 0f 05 <48> 3d 00
f0 ff ff 77 5a c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 48 83 ec 28
RSP: 002b:00007ffe6cd9a9b8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000020000 RCX: 00007fe88464f47e
RDX: 0000000000020000 RSI: 00007fe884543000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007fe884543000 R08: 00007fe884542010 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: fffffffffffffbc5 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000020000 R15: 0000000000020000

Fix this by validating the PUD entry in walk_pmd_range() using a stable
snapshot (pudp_get()). If the PUD is not present or is a leaf, retry the
walk via ACTION_AGAIN instead of descending further. This mirrors the
retry logic in walk_pte_range(), which lets walk_pmd_range() retry if the
PTE is not being got by pte_offset_map_lock().

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 22, 2026
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 22, 2026
Last updated Jun 17, 2026

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(1st percentile)

Weaknesses

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2026-31456

GHSA ID

GHSA-x569-m75g-6pr8

Source code

No known source code

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