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drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/nouveau/dmem: fix callocated underflow on large folio split nouveau_dmem_folio_free() drops chunk->callocated once per freed folio, while a large (compound) device-private folio is only counted once when it is allocated. When such a folio is split, the mm core invokes ->folio_split() (nouveau_dmem_folio_split()) once for each new sub-folio, but the hook only fixes up the sub-folio metadata and leaves chunk->callocated unchanged. Each resulting sub-folio is later freed separately, so after a split the single allocation (+1) is met by N frees (-N), leaving chunk->callocated short by N-1. On the first split/free cycle it underflows: WARN_ON(!chunk->callocated) fires, the unsigned counter wraps and never returns to zero, so the chunk can no longer be reclaimed (nouveau_dmem_fini() also warns on the leaked count). Account for the new sub-folio in the split hook, under the same lock as nouveau_dmem_folio_free(), so the count stays balanced.

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CVE-2026-93233

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-93233

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    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
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        "status": "affected",
        "version": "c3228747107705d47c7e9a03598a434a0380cb73",
        "lessThan": "0163b92946d0a7c816f619c57a4d9867954dd106",
        "versionType": "git"
      },
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        "status": "affected",
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        "versionType": "git"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  },
  {
    "repo": "https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git",
    "vendor": "Linux",
    "product": "Linux",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "6.19"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "0",
        "lessThan": "6.19",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.2.5",
        "versionType": "semver",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "7.2.*"
      },
      {
        "status": "unaffected",
        "version": "7.3",
        "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix",
        "lessThanOrEqual": "*"
      }
    ],
    "programFiles": [
      "drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_dmem.c"
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
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]
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CVE-2026-93233

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