Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package, versions *

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package and not the openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

drm/pagemap: Prevent double migration of device pages

A device-private folio migrated to system memory by a CPU fault can remain reachable through the raw-PFN eviction path until migration finalization drops the source reference.

If eviction selects the same device-private folio during this window, it can attempt to migrate the folio again. The second migration can leave an uncharged folio on an LRU list, causing folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave() to retry indefinitely and resulting in a soft lockup and RCU stall.

Mark successfully migrated device-private folios using a low bit of their zone_device_data before migration finalization. Make both CPU-fault and raw-PFN migration paths skip device-private folios carrying this flag.

Mask the flag when retrieving the drm_pagemap_zdd pointer and preserve it when a device-private folio is split. Keeping the state on the physical folio also avoids depending on a virtual address that may change before a fault occurs.

v2:

• Replace the retired-PFN XArray with an embedded bitmap. (Matthew Brost)
• Mark every base page covered by a migrated folio so retirement remains valid if the folio is later split.

v3:

• Store the migrated state in a low bit of zone_device_data instead of adding virtual-range and bitmap tracking to the ZDD. (Matthew Brost)
• Mask the flag when retrieving the ZDD and preserve it when splitting a folio.
• Drop the pre-existing fixes already covered by Matthew Brost's series: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/171651/

v4:

• Advance by the folio size only for migration entries marked with MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND. (Sashiko)

v5:

• Simplify ZDD flag updates and folio iteration. (Matthew Brost)
• Skip retired device-private folios in the CPU-fault path. (Matthew Brost)
• Preserve flag bits while taking a new ZDD reference for split folios.

v6:

• Restore MIGRATE_PFN_COMPOUND-aware stepping so non-compound migration entries are processed one at a time. (Sashiko)
• Drop the pre-existing fixes already covered by Matthew Brost's series: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/series/171651/

The lockup was observed as: [10109.860465] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 26s! [kworker/u65:5:6557] [10109.860524] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [O]=OOT_MODULE [10109.860524] Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME Z790-P WIFI, BIOS 0812 02/24/2023 [10109.860525] Workqueue: xe_page_fault_work_queue xe_pagefault_queue_work [xe] [10109.860644] RIP: 0010:_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x57/0x80 [10109.860655] Call Trace: [10109.860655] <TASK> [10109.860657] folio_lruvec_lock_irqsave+0x216/0x220 [10109.860661] ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10 [10109.860665] folio_batch_move_lru+0xc8/0x450 [10109.860670] ? lock_acquire+0xc4/0x2d0 [10109.860674] ? __folio_batch_add_and_move+0x60/0x2e0 [10109.860677] ? folio_migrate_mapping+0xa6/0x110 [10109.860679] ? folio_migrate_flags+0x13b/0x1b0 [10109.860681] ? __pfx_lru_add+0x10/0x10 [10109.860683] __folio_batch_add_and_move+0xe7/0x2e0 [10109.860685] ? dma_iova_try_alloc+0xb0/0x140 [10109.860689] folio_add_lru+0x64/0x80 [10109.860691] __migrate_device_finalize+0x12c/0x270 [10109.860695] migrate_device_finalize+0x10/0x20 [10109.860698] drm_pagemap_evict_to_ram+0x185/0x370 [drm_gpusvm_helper] [10109.860704] ? drm_pagemap_evict_to_ram+0x96/0x370 [drm_gpusvm_helper] [10109.860709] xe_svm_bo_evict+0x15/0x20 [xe] [10109.860819] ? xe_svm_bo_evict+0x15/0x20 [xe] [10109.860921] xe_bo_move+0x107e/0x1570 [xe] [10109.860992] ? xe_ttm_tt_create+0x168/0x340 [xe] [10109.861059] ? __up_read+0x98/0x2b0 [10109.861061] ? lock_is_held_type+0xa3/0x130 [10109.861067] ttm_bo_handle_move_mem+0xe8/0x1e0 [ttm] [10109.861075] ttm_bo_evict+0x141/0x1c0 [ttm] [10109.861081] ttm_bo_evict_cb+0x9f/0x100 [ttm] [10109.861086] ttm_lru_walk_for_evict+0x84/0x190 [ttm] [10109.861091] ? xe_ttm_vram_mgr_new+0x258/0x3a0 [xe] [10109.861198] ttm_bo_alloc_resource+0x219/0 ---truncated---

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-98106
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62451f540c46bf5c51143a1c8681b472608bd54d
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c4126f1db36e6b2e1c79b0e30a8a2de91c568f4c