| Summary | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: alpha: fix user-space corruption during memory compaction Alpha systems can suffer sporadic user-space crashes and heap Symptoms include SIGSEGV, glibc allocator failures (e.g. "unaligned The root cause is insufficient TLB shootdown during page migration. Fix this by introducing a migration-specific helper that combines: The helper is used only by migration/compaction paths to avoid changing Additionally, update flush_tlb_other(), pte_clear(), to use This fixes observed crashes on both UP and SMP Alpha systems. |
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| Publication Date | May 6, 2026, 9:16 p.m. |
| Registration Date | May 7, 2026, 4:09 a.m. |
| Last Update | May 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m. |