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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: add pgmap check to biovec_phys_mergeable biovec_phys_mergeable() is used by the request merge, DMA mapping, and integrity merge paths to decide if two physically contiguous bvec segments can be coalesced into one. It currently has no check for whether the segments belong to different dev_pagemaps. When zone device memory is registered in multiple chunks, each chunk gets its own dev_pagemap. A single bio can legitimately contain bvecs from different pgmaps -- iov_iter_extract_bvecs() breaks at pgmap boundaries but the outer loop in bio_iov_iter_get_pages() continues filling the same bio. If such bvecs are physically contiguous, biovec_phys_mergeable() will coalesce them, making it impossible to recover the correct pgmap for the merged segment via page_pgmap(). Add a zone_device_pages_have_same_pgmap() check to prevent merging bvec segments that span different pgmaps.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-05-13 | Published 2026-05-28 | Updated 2026-05-30 | Assigner Linux




CRITICAL: 9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Product status

Default status
unaffected

49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a (git) before 3d2ecbd444b01d6500671d1a582b7393943cf539
affected

49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a (git) before a7f3aa8c9df3905fe820ae36b67ba56b81587574
affected

49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a (git) before f17d521075325b8afc42d1baa1c28a5e9aca111f
affected

49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a (git) before f632dab4b841554cd6416058c61886d7db176581
affected

49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a (git) before 13920e4b7b784b40cf4519ff1f0f3e513476a499
affected

Default status
affected

6.2
affected

Any version before 6.2
unaffected

6.6.140 (semver)
unaffected

6.12.88 (semver)
unaffected

6.18.30 (semver)
unaffected

7.0.7 (semver)
unaffected

7.1-rc1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/3d2ecbd444b01d6500671d1a582b7393943cf539

git.kernel.org/...c/a7f3aa8c9df3905fe820ae36b67ba56b81587574

git.kernel.org/...c/f17d521075325b8afc42d1baa1c28a5e9aca111f

git.kernel.org/...c/f632dab4b841554cd6416058c61886d7db176581

git.kernel.org/...c/13920e4b7b784b40cf4519ff1f0f3e513476a499

cve.org (CVE-2026-46115)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-46115)

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