CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-22015
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-04-08
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 (416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/migrate: fix shmem xarray update during migration
A shmem folio can be either in page cache or in swap cache, but not at the
same time. Namely, once it is in swap cache, folio->mapping should be
NULL, and the folio is no longer in a shmem mapping.
In __folio_migrate_mapping(), to determine the number of xarray entries to
update, folio_test_swapbacked() is used, but that conflates shmem in page
cache case and shmem in swap cache case. It leads to xarray multi-index
entry corruption, since it turns a sibling entry to a normal entry during
xas_store() (see [1] for a userspace reproduction). Fix it by only using
folio_test_swapcache() to determine whether xarray is storing swap cache
entries or not to choose the right number of xarray entries to update.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/[email protected]/
Note:
In __split_huge_page(), folio_test_anon() && folio_test_swapcache() is
used to get swap_cache address space, but that ignores the shmem folio in
swap cache case. It could lead to NULL pointer dereferencing when a
in-swap-cache shmem folio is split at __xa_store(), since
!folio_test_anon() is true and folio->mapping is NULL. But fortunately,
its caller split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() bails out early with EBUSY
when folio->mapping is NULL. So no need to take care of it here.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.1.71 < 6.1.132)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.6.10 < 6.6.85)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7.1 < 6.12.21)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.9)
• linux linux kernel 6.7
• linux linux kernel 6.14
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/29124ae980e2860f0eec7355949d3d3292ee81da Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/49100c0b070e900f87c8fac3be9b9ef8a30fa673 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/60cf233b585cdf1f3c5e52d1225606b86acd08b0 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75cfb92eb63298d717b6b0118f91ba12c4fcfeb5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c057ee03f751d6cecf7ee64f52f6545d94082aaa Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-019113.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-457936.html cert-portal.siemens.com