CVE-2025-39725

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list

In shrink_folio_list(), the hwpoisoned folio may be large folio, which

can't be handled by unmap_poisoned_folio(). For THP, try_to_unmap_one()

must be passed with TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD to split huge PMD first and then

retry. Without TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger null-ptr deref of

pvmw.pte. Even we passed TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger a

WARN_ON_ONCE due to the page isn't in swapcache.

Since UCE is rare in real world, and race with reclaimation is more rare,

just skipping the hwpoisoned large folio is enough. memory_failure() will

handle it if the UCE is triggered again.

This happens when memory reclaim for large folio races with

memory_failure(), and will lead to kernel panic. The race is as

follows:

cpu0 cpu1

shrink_folio_list memory_failure

TestSetPageHWPoison

unmap_poisoned_folio

--> trigger BUG_ON due to

unmap_poison

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References