CVE-2026-99169

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

futex: Fix mm reuse handling for FUT OFF MMSHARED

A FUT OFF MMSHARED futex is a shared futex that refers to an MM. It is possible for a process to wait on a shared futex with a different MM because a FUT OFF INODE waiter can be requeued onto a FUT OFF MMSHARED futex by another process. This can cause FUT OFF MMSHARED waiters on a freed MM to consume wakeups intended for a newly allocated MM at the same address.

Fix it by keying FUT OFF MMSHARED using a unique 64-bit per-MM ID. Leave private futexes as before to avoid influencing the performance of the hotpath.

(Multi-threaded processes typically implicitly use FUT OFF MMSHARED by setting clear child tid such that it points into anonymous memory, which causes mm release() in a multi-threaded mm to perform FUTEX WAKE.)