CVE-2026-93216

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-93216
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93216.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-93216
Downstream
Published
2026-09-24T15:10:38Z
Modified
2026-09-25T03:48:52Z
Summary
mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()
Details

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

mm/page_owner: use memcg_data snapshot to avoid TOCTOU in print_page_owner_memcg()

print_page_owner_memcg() reads page->memcg_data via READ_ONCE() at the start to guard against tail pages and NULL data. However, it later re-reads page->memcg_data locklessly in two places:

1: page_memcg_check(page)

2: PageMemcgKmem(page) (via folio_memcg_kmem(), which includes VM_BUG_ON assertions for tail pages and MEMCG_DATA_OBJEXTS)

If the page is concurrently freed and reallocated as a THP tail page or slab page between these calls, the VM_BUG_ON assertions can trigger on CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y builds, crashing the kernel.

Fix both TOCTOU issues by using the memcg_data snapshot throughout.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/93xxx/CVE-2026-93216.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
fcf8935832b86d3437f00e732c6d0d4d2819d6a9
Fixed
46761406e14381dc35f498c247a87565b87ea2ef
Fixed
90f095b816e25c6a9e4446d299bac5007fdcb3df

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93216.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.18.0
Fixed
7.2.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-93216.json"