CVE-2026-53162EPSS p2.8%
CVE-2026-53162CVE-2026-53162
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
memcg: use round-robin victim selection in refill_stock
Harry Yoo reported that get_random_u32_below() is not safe to call in the
nmi context and memcg charge draining can happen in nmi context.
More specifically get_random_u32_below() is neither reentrant- nor
NMI-safe: it acquires a per-cpu local_lock via local_lock_irqsave() on the
batched_entropy_u32 state. An NMI that lands on a CPU mid-update of the
ChaCha batch state and recurses into the random subsystem would corrupt
that state. The memcg_stock local_trylock prevents re-entry on the percpu
stock itself, but cannot protect an unrelated subsystem's per-cpu lock.
Replace the random pick with a per-cpu round-robin counter stored in
memcg_stock_pcp and serialized by the same local_trylock that already
guards cached[] and nr_pages[]. No atomics, no random calls, no extra
locks needed.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.13% probability of exploitation · percentile 2.8% · 2026-08-11T12:00:17Z |
| Last modified | 2026-07-06 |