Skip to content
CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.8 High

CVE-2026-72027

mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free()

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/compaction: handle free_pages_prepare() properly in compaction_free() free_pages_prepare() can fail but compaction_free() does not handle the failure case. Failed pages should not be added back to cc->freepages for future use, since they can be either PageHWPoison or free_page_is_bad() and might cause data corruption.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 to < de8577db09039d4950239b01446ab5ead9028ab4affected
  • 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 to < 018d7ad26cb8bdfe9842f2ca68a42b0bfdcc82feaffected
  • 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 to < 23afc3786acf359c135093893fb43a436768c832affected
  • 733aea0b3a7bba0451dfc19322665de13a5b7af4 to < 7da7d599b8a83271c464adfd5ef160202b470570affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 6.9affected
  • 0 to < 6.9unaffected
  • 6.12.97 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.40 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.1.5 to ≤ 7.1.*unaffected
  • 7.2 to ≤ *unaffected

References