CVE-2025-39883
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
23/09/2025
Last modified:
23/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory<br />
<br />
When I did memory failure tests, below panic occurs:<br />
<br />
page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page))<br />
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:616!<br />
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI<br />
CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-00195-g148743902568 #40<br />
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246<br />
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8<br />
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0<br />
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb<br />
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000<br />
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe<br />
FS: 00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590<br />
simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110<br />
debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60<br />
full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80<br />
vfs_write+0xd5/0x540<br />
ksys_write+0x64/0xe0<br />
do_syscall_64+0xb9/0x1d0<br />
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f<br />
RIP: 0033:0x7f08f0314887<br />
RSP: 002b:00007ffece710078 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001<br />
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 00007f08f0314887<br />
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000564787a30410 RDI: 0000000000000001<br />
RBP: 0000564787a30410 R08: 000000000000fefe R09: 000000007fffffff<br />
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009<br />
R13: 00007f08f041b780 R14: 00007f08f0417600 R15: 00007f08f0416a00<br />
<br />
Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject<br />
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---<br />
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590<br />
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246<br />
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8<br />
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0<br />
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb<br />
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000<br />
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe<br />
FS: 00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000<br />
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033<br />
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0<br />
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception<br />
Kernel Offset: 0x31c00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)<br />
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---<br />
<br />
The root cause is that unpoison_memory() tries to check the PG_HWPoison<br />
flags of an uninitialized page. So VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) is<br />
triggered. This can be reproduced by below steps:<br />
<br />
1.Offline memory block:<br />
<br />
echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state<br />
<br />
2.Get offlined memory pfn:<br />
<br />
page-types -b n -rlN<br />
<br />
3.Write pfn to unpoison-pfn<br />
<br />
echo > /sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/unpoison-pfn<br />
<br />
This scenario can be identified by pfn_to_online_page() returning NULL. <br />
And ZONE_DEVICE pages are never expected, so we can simply fail if<br />
pfn_to_online_page() == NULL to fix the bug.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d278e89c2ea62b1aaa4b0d8a9766a35b3a3164a
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/63a327a2375a8ce7a47dec5aaa4d8a9ae0a00b96
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7618fd443aa4cfa553a64cacf5721581653ee7b0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d613f53c83ec47089c4e25859d5e8e0359f6f8da
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e4ec6def5643a1c9511115b3884eb879572294c6