CVE-2026-46035
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/page_alloc: return NULL early from alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() in NMI on UP On UP kernels (!CONFIG_SMP), spin_trylock() is a no-op that unconditionally succeeds even when the lock is already held. As a result, alloc_frozen_pages_nolock() called from NMI context can re-enter rmqueue() and acquire the zone lock that the interrupted context is already holding, corrupting the freelists. With CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP, the following BUG is triggered with the slub_kunit test module: BUG: spinlock trylock failure on UP on CPU#0, kunit_try_catch/243 [...] Call Trace: <NMI> dump_stack_lvl+0x3f/0x60 do_raw_spin_trylock+0x41/0x50 _raw_spin_trylock+0x24/0x50 rmqueue.isra.0+0x2a9/0xa70 get_page_from_freelist+0xeb/0x450 alloc_frozen_pages_nolock_noprof+0x111/0x1e0 allocate_slab+0x42a/0x500 ___slab_alloc+0xa7/0x4c0 kmalloc_nolock_noprof+0x164/0x310 [...] </NMI> Fix this by returning NULL early when invoked from NMI on a UP kernel.
Predictions
Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 7.0.4-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 7.0.4-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
| sles | affected | |
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b4ed8bef30bba4f559c8d835e2dd20c48cf8a4
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6d57efeaae3f3b3656514f600eac96be713d90e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/620b46ed6ae17c8438d889c8c0cfddab36a1476c
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-46035
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46035.html
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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