CVE-2026-72244

Published: August 18, 2026Last modified: August 18, 2026

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: gpu/buddy: bail out of try_harder when alignment cannot be honoured The try_harder contiguous fallback could return a range whose start offset did not match the caller's min_block_size. When a candidate's start is misaligned, realign it: free the misaligned run and reallocate exactly @size at the next lower min_block_size boundary. This keeps the returned size unchanged with no surplus to trim, and rejects the request only when no aligned candidate fits. v2: align misaligned candidates down to min_block_size instead of bailing out, for both the RHS and LHS paths (Matthew).

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• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/419d7d9306491f3e0e417cf794844c73cabee090
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4289531106ee175a6eb45db7d4f2734d1dae9887
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/56bc6384314fb9ae98975fb2af8b143097ede3dc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7185c5262435b93e5eeffa647008992256b9c51a