CVE-2026-89985

High

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: memcg: keep folio's objcg same as its node memcg_reparent_objcgs() has an inherent assumption that a folio's objcg is the objcg of the folio's node. Folio migration across nodes breaks that assumption: the new folio simply inherits the old folio's objcg while living on a different node. Once the assumption is broken, the reparenting of the folio's objcg and the reparenting of the folio's LRU list are no longer atomic. memcg_reparent_objcgs() handles one node per iteration and drops all the locks in between, so the objcg gets reparented in the iteration for the objcg's node while the LRU list gets spliced in the iteration for the folio's node. Any LRU operation on that folio in between resolves its lruvec through the objcg, and thus takes the lru_lock of the wrong memcg, not the lru_lock of the list the folio is actually on. Fix this by selecting the objcg by folio_nid() at charge time, and by re-deriving it for the destination node in mem_cgroup_migrate() and mem_cgroup_replace_folio().

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLinux
PublishedSep 16, 2026
First seenSep 16, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Linux Linux6165478eaa3094eaee1d5e33b12520064faf043d, bf4ade7dbd76d4ec8697840e4ebb15ed77c5ec26 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Linux Linuxf1cf8d2f36dc369688bbe61ce064fbd829dbc9e1 ≤ v < 6165478eaa3094eaee1d5e33b12520064faf043d, f1cf8d2f36dc369688bbe61ce064fbd829dbc9e1 ≤ v < bf4ade7dbd76d4ec8697840e4ebb15ed77c5ec26, 7.16165478eaa3094eaee1d5e33b12520064faf043d, bf4ade7dbd76d4ec8697840e4ebb15ed77c5ec26

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