CVE-2025-21860
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
12/03/2025
Last modified:
16/04/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
mm/zswap: fix inconsistency when zswap_store_page() fails<br />
<br />
Commit b7c0ccdfbafd ("mm: zswap: support large folios in zswap_store()")<br />
skips charging any zswap entries when it failed to zswap the entire folio.<br />
<br />
However, when some base pages are zswapped but it failed to zswap the<br />
entire folio, the zswap operation is rolled back. When freeing zswap<br />
entries for those pages, zswap_entry_free() uncharges the zswap entries<br />
that were not previously charged, causing zswap charging to become<br />
inconsistent.<br />
<br />
This inconsistency triggers two warnings with following steps:<br />
# On a machine with 64GiB of RAM and 36GiB of zswap<br />
$ stress-ng --bigheap 2 # wait until the OOM-killer kills stress-ng<br />
$ sudo reboot<br />
<br />
The two warnings are:<br />
in mm/memcontrol.c:163, function obj_cgroup_release():<br />
WARN_ON_ONCE(nr_bytes & (PAGE_SIZE - 1));<br />
<br />
in mm/page_counter.c:60, function page_counter_cancel():<br />
if (WARN_ONCE(new
Impact
Base Score 3.x
3.30
Severity 3.x
LOW
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.13 (including) | 6.13.5 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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