Vulnerability details
CVE-2025-21939
drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock
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
| Score | Version | Source | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
3Details
- Published
- 2025-04-01
- Last updated
- 2026-10-16
- State
- Published
- Assigner (CNA)
- Linux
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
SSVC assessment (CISA)
- Automatable
- No
- Exploitation
- None
- Technical impact
- Total
Weaknesses (CWE)
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