Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-21939

Linux Linux

drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock

CVSS 3.1
7.8High

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock The pnfs that we obtain from hmm_range_fault() point to pages that we don't have a reference on, and the guarantee that they are still in the cpu page-tables is that the notifier lock must be held and the notifier seqno is still valid. So while building the sg table and marking the pages accesses / dirty we need to hold this lock with a validated seqno. However, the lock is reclaim tainted which makes sg_alloc_table_from_pages_segment() unusable, since it internally allocates memory. Instead build the sg-table manually. For the non-iommu case this might lead to fewer coalesces, but if that's a problem it can be fixed up later in the resource cursor code. For the iommu case, the whole sg-table may still be coalesced to a single contigous device va region. This avoids marking pages that we don't own dirty and accessed, and it also avoid dereferencing struct pages that we don't own. v2: - Use assert to check whether hmm pfns are valid (Matthew Auld) - Take into account that large pages may cross range boundaries (Matthew Auld) v3: - Don't unnecessarily check for a non-freed sg-table. (Matthew Auld) - Add a missing up_read() in an error path. (Matthew Auld) (cherry picked from commit ea3e66d280ce2576664a862693d1da8fd324c317)

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
7.8High 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (Linux) CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
Linux Linux 6.10 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 ≤ v < 2a24c98f0e4cc994334598d4f3a851972064809d CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 ≤ v < f9326f529da7298a95643c3267f1c0fdb0db55eb CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
Linux Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 ≤ v < 0a98219bcc961edd3388960576e4353e123b4a51 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2025-04-01
Last updated
2026-10-16
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
Linux

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.21%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
12.1%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

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