Bug 2345240 (CVE-2025-21696)

Summary: CVE-2025-21696 kernel: mm: clear uffd-wp PTE/PMD state on mremap()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-12 14:09:59 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm: clear uffd-wp PTE/PMD state on mremap()

When mremap()ing a memory region previously registered with userfaultfd as
write-protected but without UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_REMAP, an inconsistency in
flag clearing leads to a mismatch between the vma flags (which have
uffd-wp cleared) and the pte/pmd flags (which do not have uffd-wp
cleared).  This mismatch causes a subsequent mprotect(PROT_WRITE) to
trigger a warning in page_table_check_pte_flags() due to setting the pte
to writable while uffd-wp is still set.

Fix this by always explicitly clearing the uffd-wp pte/pmd flags on any
such mremap() so that the values are consistent with the existing clearing
of VM_UFFD_WP.  Be careful to clear the logical flag regardless of its
physical form; a PTE bit, a swap PTE bit, or a PTE marker.  Cover PTE,
huge PMD and hugetlb paths.
Comment 1 Robb Gatica 2025-02-12 20:34:45 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025021259-CVE-2025-21696-2482@gregkh/T