Critical severity · published May 28, 2026
CVE-2026-46115
block: add pgmap check to biovec_phys_mergeable
9.8
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 42% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KE
Kernel · Linux
6.2 before 6.6.140; 6.7 before 6.12.88; 6.13 before 6.18.30; 6.19 before 7.0.7 · source: NVD
LI
Linux · Linux
49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a before 3d2ecbd444b01d6500671d1a582b7393943cf539; 49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a before a7f3aa8c9df3905fe820ae36b67ba56b81587574; 49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a before f17d521075325b8afc42d1baa1c28a5e9aca111f; 49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a before f632dab4b841554cd6416058c61886d7db176581; 49580e690755d0e51ed7aa2c33225dd884fa738a before 13920e4b7b784b40cf4519ff1f0f3e513476a499; 6.2 · source: vendor