Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 11, 2025· Updated Sep 29, 2025
mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration
CVE-2025-39754
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration
smaps_hugetlb_range() handles the pte without holdling ptl, and may be concurrenct with migration, leaing to BUG_ON in pfn_swap_entry_to_page(). The race is as follows.
smaps_hugetlb_range migrate_pages huge_ptep_get remove_migration_ptes folio_unlock pfn_swap_entry_folio BUG_ON
To fix it, hold ptl lock in smaps_hugetlb_range().
Affected products
2- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 4.4
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
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