In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: fix dereferencing invalid pmd migration entry When migrating a THP, concurrent access to the PMD migration entry during a deferred split scan can lead to an invalid address access, as illustrated below. To prevent this invalid access, it is necessary to check the PMD migration entry and return early. In this context, there is no need to use pmd_to_swp_entry and pfn_swap_entry_to_page to verify the equality of the target folio. Since the PMD migration entry is locked, it cannot be served as the target. Mailing list discussion and explanation from Hugh Dickins: "An anon_vma lookup points to a location which may contain the folio of interest, but might instead contain another folio: and weeding out those other folios is precisely what the "folio != pmd_folio((*pmd)" check (and the "risk of replacing the wrong folio" comment a few lines above it) is for." BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffea60001db008 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2199114 Comm: tee Not tainted 6.14.0+ #4 NONE Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:split_huge_pmd_locked+0x3b5/0x2b60 Call Trace: <TASK> try_to_migrate_one+0x28c/0x3730 rmap_walk_anon+0x4f6/0x770 unmap_folio+0x196/0x1f0 split_huge_page_to_list_to_order+0x9f6/0x1560 deferred_split_scan+0xac5/0x12a0 shrinker_debugfs_scan_write+0x376/0x470 full_proxy_write+0x15c/0x220 vfs_write+0x2fc/0xcb0 ksys_write+0x146/0x250 do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x120 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e The bug is found by syzkaller on an internal kernel, then confirmed on upstream.
Upstream advisory: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025052003-CVE-2025-37958-02de@gregkh/T
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Via RHSA-2025:11428 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11428
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Via RHSA-2025:11861 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11861
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:12209 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12209
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:12311 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12311
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:12525 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12525
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions Via RHSA-2025:12526 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12526
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Extended Update Support Via RHSA-2025:13135 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:13135