CVE-2025-40218 (GCVE-0-2025-40218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-04 14:50 – Updated: 2026-05-11 21:45
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Title
mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
Linux CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard D 53/100 over 7033 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Linux Linux Affected: 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 , < 677ebfe5d00f94adec0c0204f6e6e2a82d3f77bf (git)
Affected: 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 , < ac42320ec873bfe726141069cfdd90ee5bc4e885 (git)
Affected: 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 , < 0ccd91cf749536d41307a07e60ec14ab0dbf21f5 (git)
Affected: 7780d04046a2288ab85d88bedacc60fa4fad9971 , < b93af2cc8e036754c0d9970d9ddc47f43cc94b9f (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.5
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.5 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.113 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.54 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.4 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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