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CVE-2026-99169

futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT_OFF_MMSHARED A FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM. It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM because a FUT_OFF_INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT_OFF_MMSHARED futex by another process. This can cause FUT_OFF_MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address. Fix it by keying FUT_OFF_MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID. Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the hotpath. (Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT_OFF_MMSHARED by setting clear_child_tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which causes mm_release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX_WAKE.)

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

  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < 096b5d4b80d19b1f7bf8e63fae0d0a32dbb6e1a2affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < a7aa4ce1b56a688fe4da75430ec7bf9fe3311807affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < f470b76584b5e32d9f9436ef78fb899914116d75affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < 0c133ed51700036796318f038dde813976bf1227affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < 16cc0fee39dffd9994b7bea676a886ed52206754affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < c17cc2027773e8e4913c5ab0fe3a489b1ed5bf81affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < 2855ddc6844f527e375e78afb55ec2a5182f23b3affected
  • 222993395ed38f3751287f4bd82ef46b3eb3a66d to < 3267512ad1c2cc0c7768c5b014dc2cceb398a801affected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.7affected
  • 0 to < 5.7unaffected
  • 5.10.273 to ≤ 5.10.*unaffected
  • 5.15.224 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.191 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.161 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.115 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.59 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 7.2.13 to ≤ 7.2.*unaffected
  • 7.3 to ≤ *unaffected

References