CVE-2026-93243— mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
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Affected
Linux Linux
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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Check the vendor advisory and references for a fixed version. If immediate upgrade is impossible, restrict exposure and increase monitoring.
在 Linux 内核中，已修复以下漏洞： mm/secretmem：正确统计锁定页数 secretmem 通过模拟 行为来管理内存，并将内存视为受 限制的量进行追踪。 然而，这些 folios（页单元）是不可回收（unevictable）的，并且在其关联的 inode 被驱逐之前始终保持这种状态。这导致其语义与典型的 不同：对映射（mapping）随后取消映射（unmapping）的操作并不能清除其不可回收状态，因为该状态依赖于 标志，而非 标志。 因此，用户可以轻易绕过 限制：只需执行映射再取消映射操作， 就不再
Affected Version Matrix 8
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | 1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49< 853043cb129473ff2fa0090602be944d96b9d5c9 |
affected |
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49< 3b4f72bdddff69819d665395376329ef21f37a06 |
affected | ||
1507f51255c9ff07d75909a84e7c0d7f3c4b2f49< 97d34aa65c29cca85e3e9050f4c936389b38a054 |
affected | ||
5.14 |
affected | ||
< 5.14 |
unaffected | ||
6.18.52≤ 6.18.* |
unaffected | ||
7.2.5≤ 7.2.* |
unaffected | ||
7.3-rc2≤ * |
unaffected |
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-93243
Vulnerability Information
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Vulnerability Title
mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/secretmem: properly account locked pages
secretmem accounts folios by treating memory as if it were mlock()'d and
thus limited by the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit.
However the folios are unevictable and remain so until the inode is
evicted, eliminating usual mlock() semantics - mapping folios then
unmapping them does not clear their unevictable state, since it depends on
AS_UNEVICTABLE, not PG_mlocked.
A user can therefore easily work around the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK limit - simply
map then unmap and VmLck no longer counts the secretmem range. Worse,
folios are not accounted in the process's RSS, meaning the OOM killer
won't know to kill the process.
Repeatedly mapping/unmapping (or forking) can then result in the
consumption of all available system memory with unevictable folios and
cause system instability.
A secretmem fd can be passed between processes and over fork so a
per-process limit simply does not make sense, so follow the precedent set
by io_uring, perf, skbuff, iommufd and xdp by tracking the number of
locked pages in user_struct->locked_vm.
Since the scope tracked is actually inode lifetime, the RLIMIT_MEMLOCK
applies per-user not per-process, so it doesn't make sense to bypass for
users with CAP_IPC_LOCK, therefore remove this bypass.
There is simply no reason to carry on marking the mapping as mlock()'d
since it's misleading and the lifecycle is now correctly handled, so
remove this too.
Note that secretmem does not support any form of truncation (including
hole punching) and the folios are unreclaimable, so the folios need only
be accounted on fault and unaccounted on inode destruction.
__secretmem_account_pages() is more or less a duplicate of the code that
io_uring etc. use, but since this is a bug fix that needs backporting,
defer any de-duplication efforts to a follow-up.
test_mlock_limit() asserts mlock_future_ok() on mmap(), however this has
been removed, so remove the test altogether for the fix. A new test will
be sent separately for upstream.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
N/A
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Affected Products
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Patches & Fixes for CVE-2026-93243 (3)
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| CVE-2026-93228 | 9.1 CRITICAL | svcrdma: Reject Write/Reply chunks with segcount 0 |
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| CVE-2026-93799 | 8.8 HIGH | wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: validate sta_id in BA window status notif |
| CVE-2026-93790 | 8.8 HIGH | wifi: iwlwifi: mvm: fix out-of-bounds tid_data access in BA notif |
| CVE-2026-93806 | 8.8 HIGH | wifi: cfg80211: validate assoc response length before status and IE access |
| CVE-2026-97442 | 8.8 HIGH | wifi: ath11k: fix invalid data access in ath11k_dp_rx_h_undecap_nwifi |
| CVE-2026-97509 | 8.8 HIGH | thunderbolt: Keep XDomain reference during the lifetime of a service |
| CVE-2026-97409 | 8.8 HIGH | nvme-fc: Do not cancel requests in io target before it is initialized |
| CVE-2026-93280 | 8.8 HIGH | greybus: audio: bound the topology section sizes against the fetched size |
| CVE-2026-93284 | 8.8 HIGH | drm/pagemap: dma-unmap pages before handling migration errors |
| CVE-2026-97451 | 8.4 HIGH | ACPICA: Fix integer overflow in acpi_ex_opcode_3A_1T_1R() (mid_op) |
| CVE-2026-97452 | 8.4 HIGH | ACPICA: Prevent adding invalid references |
| CVE-2026-97455 | 8.4 HIGH | ACPICA: Fix use-after-free in acpi_ds_terminate_control_method() |
| CVE-2026-97450 | 8.4 HIGH | ACPICA: validate handler object type in two places |
| CVE-2026-93827 | 8.4 HIGH | virtio-fs: avoid double-free on failed queue setup |
| CVE-2026-97433 | 8.2 HIGH | nvme: validate FDP configuration descriptor sizes |
| CVE-2026-93221 | 8.1 HIGH | nfsd: convert nfsd_net boolean flags to unsigned long flags word |
| CVE-2026-93786 | 8.1 HIGH | ksmbd: preserve VFS inherited POSIX ACL mask |
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