Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: memcg: fix NULL pointer in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath()
As commit 18365225f044 ("hwpoison, memcg: forcibly uncharge LRU pages"), hwpoison will forcibly uncharg a LRU hwpoisoned page, the folio_memcg could be NULl, then, mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty_slowpath() could occurs a NULL pointer dereference, let's do not record the foreign writebacks for folio memcg is null in mem_cgroup_track_foreign_dirty() to fix it.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux | >= 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc, < b79ba5953f6fdc5559389ad415620bffc24f024b; >= 97b27821b4854ca744946dae32a3f2fd55bcd5bc, < ac86f547ca1002aec2ef66b9e64d03f45bbbfbb9 |
| Linux | Linux | 5.4 |
References
Timeline
- Published
- Mar 27, 2025
- Last modified
- Jun 17, 2026
- NVD status
- Modified