Bug 2397553 (CVE-2025-39883)

Summary: CVE-2025-39883 kernel: mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory
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A use-after-free memory bug exists in the linux kernel, such that unpoison_memory() tries to check the PG_HWPoison flags of an uninitialized page. So VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) is triggered, leading to damage to the system availability and integrity.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-23 07:01:17 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/memory-failure: fix VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoison memory

When I did memory failure tests, below panic occurs:

page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page))
kernel BUG at include/linux/page-flags.h:616!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 3 PID: 720 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.10.0-rc1-00195-g148743902568 #40
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
 simple_attr_write_xsigned.constprop.0.isra.0+0xb3/0x110
 debugfs_attr_write+0x42/0x60
 full_proxy_write+0x5b/0x80
 vfs_write+0xd5/0x540
 ksys_write+0x64/0xe0
 do_syscall_64+0xb9/0x1d0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f08f0314887
RSP: 002b:00007ffece710078 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: 00007f08f0314887
RDX: 0000000000000009 RSI: 0000564787a30410 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 0000564787a30410 R08: 000000000000fefe R09: 000000007fffffff
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000009
R13: 00007f08f041b780 R14: 00007f08f0417600 R15: 00007f08f0416a00
 </TASK>
Modules linked in: hwpoison_inject
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:unpoison_memory+0x2f3/0x590
RSP: 0018:ffffa57fc8787d60 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000037 RBX: 0000000000000009 RCX: ffff9be25fcdc9c8
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000027 RDI: ffff9be25fcdc9c0
RBP: 0000000000300000 R08: ffffffffb4956f88 R09: 0000000000009ffb
R10: 0000000000000284 R11: ffffffffb4926fa0 R12: ffffe6b00c000000
R13: ffff9bdb453dfd00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: fffffffffffffffe
FS:  00007f08f04e4740(0000) GS:ffff9be25fcc0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564787a30410 CR3: 000000010d4e2000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Kernel Offset: 0x31c00000 from 0xffffffff81000000 (relocation range: 0xffffffff80000000-0xffffffffbfffffff)
---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

The root cause is that unpoison_memory() tries to check the PG_HWPoison
flags of an uninitialized page.  So VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) is
triggered.  This can be reproduced by below steps:

1.Offline memory block:

 echo offline > /sys/devices/system/memory/memory12/state

2.Get offlined memory pfn:

 page-types -b n -rlN

3.Write pfn to unpoison-pfn

 echo <pfn> > /sys/kernel/debug/hwpoison/unpoison-pfn

This scenario can be identified by pfn_to_online_page() returning NULL. 
And ZONE_DEVICE pages are never expected, so we can simply fail if
pfn_to_online_page() == NULL to fix the bug.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-11-25 00:37:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:22006 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22006

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-11-25 12:31:27 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Update Services for SAP Solutions
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Telecommunications Update Service

Via RHSA-2025:22072 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22072

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 05:25:32 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:22387 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22387

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 05:58:45 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:22388 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22388

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 09:21:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:22395 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22395

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-01 09:48:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:22392 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22392

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-03 12:44:29 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:22661 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22661

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-10 00:22:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22997 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22997

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-10 00:25:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22995 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22995

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-10 00:49:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22999 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22999

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-10 00:53:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions

Via RHSA-2025:22996 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22996

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2025-12-17 07:47:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Advanced Update Support

Via RHSA-2025:23445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23445

Comment 19 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-08 00:32:22 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update Support

Via RHSA-2026:0271 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0271

Comment 20 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-12 04:42:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:0445 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0445

Comment 21 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-14 00:13:40 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On

Via RHSA-2026:0533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0533