CVE-2026-89985

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-89985
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89985.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-89985
Downstream
Published
2026-09-16T10:33:00Z
Modified
2026-09-18T03:48:34Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
memcg: keep folio's objcg same as its node
Details

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().

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/89xxx/CVE-2026-89985.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
f1cf8d2f36dc369688bbe61ce064fbd829dbc9e1
Fixed
6165478eaa3094eaee1d5e33b12520064faf043d
Fixed
bf4ade7dbd76d4ec8697840e4ebb15ed77c5ec26

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89985.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
7.1.0
Fixed
7.2.5

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-89985.json"