{"id":"AZL-100887","summary":"CVE-2026-89756 affecting package kernel 6.6.150.1-1","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/migrate: report RCU-tasks quiescent states in migrate_pages_batch()\n\nmigrate_pages_batch() unmaps each folio before moving it, and every\nunmap runs the mmu_notifier invalidate callbacks.  On KVM hosts\ntry_to_migrate() ends up in kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start() -\u003e\ntdp_mmu_zap_leafs(), which is expensive, so unmapping a large batch keeps\nthe CPU busy for a long time.\n\nThe loop already calls cond_resched(), but on PREEMPTION kernels that is\na no-op, and involuntary preemption is not a Tasks-RCU quiescent state.\n\nA long batch therefore never reports a quiescent state, and the\nmigrating task (e.g. kcompactd) becomes a Tasks-RCU holdout, stalling the\nTasks-RCU grace period for minutes, which is common at Meta fleet:\n\n  INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:\n  0000000055349ecc: .. nvcsw: 1157401/1157401 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/56 task:kcompactd0      state:R  running task\n  Call Trace:\n   tdp_mmu_zap_leafs\n   tdp_mmu_next_root\n   gfn_to_pfn_cache_invalidate_start\n   kvm_mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start\n   __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start\n   try_to_migrate_one\n   try_to_migrate\n   migrate_pages_batch\n   migrate_pages\n   compact_zone\n   compact_node\n   kcompactd\n   kthread\n\nUse cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() so a quiescent state is reported even\nwhen cond_resched() does nothing.\n\nThis has also been discussed at [1]","modified":"2026-09-13T06:06:36Z","published":"2026-09-11T20:20:06Z","upstream":["CVE-2026-89756"],"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89756"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"kernel","ecosystem":"Azure Linux:3","purl":"pkg:rpm/azure-linux/kernel"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.6.150.1-1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-100887.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}