mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success (Linux Linux)

CVE-2025-40218
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At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 8 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
Linux
NVD status
Deferred

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success DAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls pte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function. This is for reading and writing page table accessed bits. If pte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk callback function with ACTION_AGAIN. pte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd migration entry, though. Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk if the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. This indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were running in parallel. Avoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk. DAMON is promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages is no problem.

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Affected products

ProductVersions
Linux · Linuxaffected 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 < 677ebfe5d00f94adec0c0204f6e6e2a82d3f77bf ; affected 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 < ac42320ec873bfe726141069cfdd90ee5bc4e885 ; affected 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 < 0ccd91cf749536d41307a07e60ec14ab0dbf21f5 ; affected 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 < b93af2cc8e036754c0d9970d9ddc47f43cc94b9f
Linux · Linuxaffected 6.5 ; unaffected 0 < 6.5 ; unaffected 6.6.113 ≤ 6.6.* ; unaffected 6.12.54 ≤ 6.12.* ; unaffected 6.17.4 ≤ 6.17.* ; unaffected 6.18 ≤ *

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