CVE-2025-38085 Information

Jun 30, 2025 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/hugetlb: fix huge_pmd_unshare() vs GUP-fast race

huge_pmd_unshare() drops a reference on a page table that may have previously been shared across processes potentially turning it into a normal page table used in another process in which unrelated VMAs can afterwards be installed.

If this happens in the middle of a concurrent gup_fast() gup_fast() could end up walking the page tables of another process. While I don’t see any way in which that immediately leads to kernel memory corruption it is really weird and unexpected.

Fix it with an explicit broadcast IPI through tlb_remove_table_sync_one() just like we do in khugepaged when removing page tables for a THP collapse.

Reference

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/034a52b5ef57c9c8225d94e9067f3390bb33922f https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1013af4f585fccc4d3e5c5824d174de2257f7d6d https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/952596b08c74e8fe9e2883d1dc8a8f54a37384ec https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a3d864c901a300c295692d129159fc3001a56185 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a6bfeb97941a9187833b526bc6cc4ff5706d0ce9 https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7754d3aa7bf9f62218d096c0c8f6c13698fac8b https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe684290418ef9ef76630072086ee530b92f02b8

CNNVD-202506-3625 (Published: 2025-06-28)

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