CVE-2026-23097
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
04/02/2026
Last modified:
04/02/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
migrate: correct lock ordering for hugetlb file folios<br />
<br />
Syzbot has found a deadlock (analyzed by Lance Yang):<br />
<br />
1) Task (5749): Holds folio_lock, then tries to acquire i_mmap_rwsem(read lock).<br />
2) Task (5754): Holds i_mmap_rwsem(write lock), then tries to acquire<br />
folio_lock.<br />
<br />
migrate_pages()<br />
-> migrate_hugetlbs()<br />
-> unmap_and_move_huge_page() remove_migration_ptes()<br />
-> __rmap_walk_file()<br />
-> i_mmap_lock_read() hugetlbfs_punch_hole() hugetlbfs_zero_partial_page()<br />
-> filemap_lock_hugetlb_folio()<br />
-> filemap_lock_folio()<br />
-> __filemap_get_folio



