CVE-2025-22045 Information

Apr 17, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs

On the following path flush_tlb_range() can be used for zapping normal PMD entries (PMD entries that point to page tables) together with the PTE entries in the pointed-to page table:

collapse_pte_mapped_thp
  pmdp_collapse_flush
    flush_tlb_range

The arm64 version of flush_tlb_range() has a comment describing that it can be used for page table removal and does not use any last-level invalidation optimizations. Fix the X86 version by making it behave the same way.

Currently X86 only uses this information for the following two purposes which I think means the issue doesn’t have much impact:

In native_flush_tlb_multi() for checking if lazy TLB CPUs need to be IPI’d to avoid issues with speculative page table walks.
In Hyper-V TLB paravirtualization again for lazy TLB stuff.

The patch �/mm: only invalidate final translations with INVLPGB\ which is currently under review (see https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241230175550.4046587-13-riel@surriel.com/) would probably be making the impact of this a lot worse.

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