CVE-2025-68231 (GCVE-0-2025-68231)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-16 13:57 – Updated: 2025-12-16 13:57
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Title
mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/mempool: fix poisoning order>0 pages with HIGHMEM The kernel test has reported: BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffba000 #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page *pde = 03171067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G T 6.18.0-rc2-00031-gec7f31b2a2d3 #1 NONE a1d066dfe789f54bc7645c7989957d2bdee593ca Tainted: [T]=RANDSTRUCT Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 EIP: memset (arch/x86/include/asm/string_32.h:168 arch/x86/lib/memcpy_32.c:17) Code: a5 8b 4d f4 83 e1 03 74 02 f3 a4 83 c4 04 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 73 41 01 00 90 90 90 3e 8d 74 26 00 55 89 e5 57 56 89 c6 89 d0 89 f7 <f3> aa 89 f0 5e 5f 5d 2e e9 53 41 01 00 cc cc cc 55 89 e5 53 57 56 EAX: 0000006b EBX: 00000015 ECX: 001fefff EDX: 0000006b ESI: fffb9000 EDI: fffba000 EBP: c611fbf0 ESP: c611fbe8 DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 0000 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010287 CR0: 80050033 CR2: fffba000 CR3: 0316e000 CR4: 00040690 Call Trace: poison_element (mm/mempool.c:83 mm/mempool.c:102) mempool_init_node (mm/mempool.c:142 mm/mempool.c:226) mempool_init_noprof (mm/mempool.c:250 (discriminator 1)) ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640) bio_integrity_initfn (block/bio-integrity.c:483 (discriminator 8)) ? mempool_alloc_pages (mm/mempool.c:640) do_one_initcall (init/main.c:1283) Christoph found out this is due to the poisoning code not dealing properly with CONFIG_HIGHMEM because only the first page is mapped but then the whole potentially high-order page is accessed. We could give up on HIGHMEM here, but it's straightforward to fix this with a loop that's mapping, poisoning or checking and unmapping individual pages.
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Linux Linux Affected: bdfedb76f4f5aa5e37380e3b71adee4a39f30fc6 , < ea4131665107e66ece90e66bcec1a2f1246cbd41 (git)
Affected: bdfedb76f4f5aa5e37380e3b71adee4a39f30fc6 , < 19de79aaea33ee1ea058c8711b3b2b4a7e4decd4 (git)
Affected: bdfedb76f4f5aa5e37380e3b71adee4a39f30fc6 , < 6a13b56537e7b0d97f4bb74e8038ce471f9770d7 (git)
Affected: bdfedb76f4f5aa5e37380e3b71adee4a39f30fc6 , < a79e49e1704367b635edad1479db23d7cf1fb71a (git)
Affected: bdfedb76f4f5aa5e37380e3b71adee4a39f30fc6 , < ec33b59542d96830e3c89845ff833cf7b25ef172 (git)
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    Linux Linux Affected: 4.1
Unaffected: 0 , < 4.1 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.1.159 , ≤ 6.1.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.6.118 , ≤ 6.6.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.60 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.17.10 , ≤ 6.17.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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