CVE-2025-39754

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
11/09/2025
Last modified:
15/09/2025

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> mm/smaps: fix race between smaps_hugetlb_range and migration<br /> <br /> smaps_hugetlb_range() handles the pte without holdling ptl, and may be<br /> concurrenct with migration, leaing to BUG_ON in pfn_swap_entry_to_page(). <br /> The race is as follows.<br /> <br /> smaps_hugetlb_range migrate_pages<br /> huge_ptep_get<br /> remove_migration_ptes<br /> folio_unlock<br /> pfn_swap_entry_folio<br /> BUG_ON<br /> <br /> To fix it, hold ptl lock in smaps_hugetlb_range().

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