CVE-2026-46115

About vulnerability

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. A flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s block subsystem. The biovec_phys_mergeable function, which combines physically contiguous memory segments, lacked a check to ensure these segments belonged to the same device page map (dev_pagemap). This omission could result in the incorrect identification of the page map for merged segments, potentially leading to data integrity problems or system instability.

Live-patch status from KernelCare for each operating system.