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    "cveMetadata": {
        "cveId": "CVE-2026-23375",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2026-01-13T15:37:46.003Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-03-25T10:27:55.754Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T22:05:39.614Z"
    },
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                "orgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: thp: deny THP for files on anonymous inodes\n\nfile_thp_enabled() incorrectly allows THP for files on anonymous inodes\n(e.g. guest_memfd and secretmem). These files are created via\nalloc_file_pseudo(), which does not call get_write_access() and leaves\ninode->i_writecount at 0. Combined with S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) being\ntrue, they appear as read-only regular files when\nCONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS is enabled, making them eligible for THP\ncollapse.\n\nAnonymous inodes can never pass the inode_is_open_for_write() check\nsince their i_writecount is never incremented through the normal VFS\nopen path. The right thing to do is to exclude them from THP eligibility\naltogether, since CONFIG_READ_ONLY_THP_FOR_FS was designed for real\nfilesystem files (e.g. shared libraries), not for pseudo-filesystem\ninodes.\n\nFor guest_memfd, this allows khugepaged and MADV_COLLAPSE to create\nlarge folios in the page cache via the collapse path, but the\nguest_memfd fault handler does not support large folios. This triggers\nWARN_ON_ONCE(folio_test_large(folio)) in kvm_gmem_fault_user_mapping().\n\nFor secretmem, collapse_file() tries to copy page contents through the\ndirect map, but secretmem pages are removed from the direct map. This\ncan result in a kernel crash:\n\n    BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff88810284d000\n    RIP: 0010:memcpy_orig+0x16/0x130\n    Call Trace:\n     collapse_file\n     hpage_collapse_scan_file\n     madvise_collapse\n\nSecretmem is not affected by the crash on upstream as the memory failure\nrecovery handles the failed copy gracefully, but it still triggers\nconfusing false memory failure reports:\n\n    Memory failure: 0x106d96f: recovery action for clean unevictable\n    LRU page: Recovered\n\nCheck IS_ANON_FILE(inode) in file_thp_enabled() to deny THP for all\nanonymous inode files."
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                    "product": "Linux",
                    "vendor": "Linux",
                    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
                    "programFiles": [
                        "mm/huge_memory.c"
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                            "status": "affected",
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                    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
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                            "status": "affected"
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                        {
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                            "status": "unaffected",
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                            "version": "6.12.78",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
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                        {
                            "version": "6.18.17",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
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                        {
                            "version": "6.19.7",
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                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "semver"
                        },
                        {
                            "version": "7.0",
                            "lessThanOrEqual": "*",
                            "status": "unaffected",
                            "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08de46a75f91a6661bc1ce0a93614f4bc313c581"
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                    "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dd085fe9a8ebfc5d10314c60452db38d2b75e609"
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