CVE-2025-39725

mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list

MEDIUM 5.5

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.15 % · percentile 4 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list In shrink_folio_list(), the hwpoisoned folio may be large folio, which can't be handled by unmap_poisoned_folio(). For THP, try_to_unmap_one() must be passed with TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD to split huge PMD first and then retry. Without TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger null-ptr deref of pvmw.pte. Even we passed TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger a WARN_ON_ONCE due to the page isn't in swapcache. Since UCE is rare in real world, and race with reclaimation is more rare, just skipping the hwpoisoned large folio is enough. memory_failure() will handle it if the UCE is triggered again. This happens when memory reclaim for large folio races with memory_failure(), and will lead to kernel panic. The race is as follows: cpu0 cpu1 shrink_folio_list memory_failure TestSetPageHWPoison unmap_poisoned_folio --> trigger BUG_ON due to unmap_poisoned_folio couldn't handle large folio [tujinjiang@huawei.com: add comment to unmap_poisoned_folio()]

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-476 — NULL Pointer Dereference

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 1c9798bf8145a92abf45aa9d38a6406d9eb8bdf0 < 656eaddbc952e1baae2f69281c22debe22140312 ; affected 1b0449544c6482179ac84530b61fc192a6527bfd < c1101113d45838a823188ae25c61af97552a28ae ; affected 1b0449544c6482179ac84530b61fc192a6527bfd < 9f1e8cd0b7c4c944e9921b52a6661b5eda2705ab ; affected 912e9f0300c3564b72a8808db406e313193a37ad ; affected 6.12.26 < 6.12.41 ; affected 6.14.5 < 6.15
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.15 ; unaffected 0 < 6.15 ; unaffected 6.12.41 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.15.9 ≤ 6.15.* ; unaffected 6.16 ≤ *

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD