CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-72173

Low risk· EPSS 9%
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.19%

9th percentile - higher than 9% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, a stale warning was found in fs/proc/task_mmu in the pagemap_pmd_range_thp() function, which triggered when a PMD entry was not a migration entry. After device-private entries at the PMD level were added, the warning became false. The warning has been removed.

Risk Assessment

The risk includes generating false warnings that could mask real issues or cause administrator concern. There is no direct security threat, but the fix eliminates misleading logs.

Recommendation

It is recommended to apply the Linux kernel patch that removes the stale warning. Update systems to avoid false alarms in logs.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fs/proc/task_mmu: do not warn on seeing non-migration pmd entry Patch series "mm/hmm: A fix and a selftest", v3. Patch 1 fixes a stale warning present from the time when only migration softleaf entries were supported at the PMD level. Patch 2 adds some code into hmm-tests.c which exercises the pagemap path for PMD device-private entries. This patch (of 2): pagemap_pmd_range_thp() warns if a non-present PMD is not a migration entry. This became false once device-private entries at the PMD level were added. Therefore, remove the stale migration-only assertion.

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