Bug 2356641 (CVE-2025-21931)

Summary: CVE-2025-21931 kernel: hwpoison, memory_hotplug: lock folio before unmap hwpoisoned folio
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dfreiber, drow, jburrell, vkumar
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-04-01 16:03:58 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

hwpoison, memory_hotplug: lock folio before unmap hwpoisoned folio

Commit b15c87263a69 ("hwpoison, memory_hotplug: allow hwpoisoned pages to
be offlined) add page poison checks in do_migrate_range in order to make
offline hwpoisoned page possible by introducing isolate_lru_page and
try_to_unmap for hwpoisoned page.  However folio lock must be held before
calling try_to_unmap.  Add it to fix this problem.

Warning will be produced if folio is not locked during unmap:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swapops.h:400!
  Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 411 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W          6.13.0-rc1-00016-g3c434c7ee82a-dirty #41
  Tainted: [W]=WARN
  Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : try_to_unmap_one+0xb08/0xd3c
  lr : try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c
  Call trace:
   try_to_unmap_one+0xb08/0xd3c (P)
   try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c (L)
   rmap_walk_anon+0xdc/0x1f8
   rmap_walk+0x3c/0x58
   try_to_unmap+0x88/0x90
   unmap_poisoned_folio+0x30/0xa8
   do_migrate_range+0x4a0/0x568
   offline_pages+0x5a4/0x670
   memory_block_action+0x17c/0x374
   memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x78
   device_offline+0xa4/0xd0
   state_store+0x8c/0xf0
   dev_attr_store+0x18/0x2c
   sysfs_kf_write+0x44/0x54
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8
   vfs_write+0x3a8/0x4bc
   ksys_write+0x6c/0xf8
   __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
   invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
   do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
   el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xcc
   el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
  Code: f9407be0 b5fff320 d4210000 17ffff97 (d4210000)
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