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Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2025

mm,hugetlb: take hugetlb_lock before decrementing h->resv_huge_pages

CVE-2022-50285

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm,hugetlb: take hugetlb_lock before decrementing h->resv_huge_pages

The h->*_huge_pages counters are protected by the hugetlb_lock, but alloc_huge_page has a corner case where it can decrement the counter outside of the lock.

This could lead to a corrupted value of h->resv_huge_pages, which we have observed on our systems.

Take the hugetlb_lock before decrementing h->resv_huge_pages to avoid a potential race.

Affected products

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Patches

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