CVE-2025-22015

mm/migrate: fix shmem xarray update during migration

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Apr 8, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/migrate: fix shmem xarray update during migration

A shmem folio can be either in page cache or in swap cache, but not at the same time. Namely, once it is in swap cache, folio->mapping should be NULL, and the folio is no longer in a shmem mapping.

In __folio_migrate_mapping(), to determine the number of xarray entries to update, folio_test_swapbacked() is used, but that conflates shmem in page cache case and shmem in swap cache case. It leads to xarray multi-index entry corruption, since it turns a sibling entry to a normal entry during xas_store() (see [1] for a userspace reproduction). Fix it by only using folio_test_swapcache() to determine whether xarray is storing swap cache entries or not to choose the right number of xarray entries to update.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/Z8idPCkaJW1IChjT@casper.infradead.org/

Note: In __split_huge_page(), folio_test_anon() && folio_test_swapcache() is used to get swap_cache address space, but that ignores the shmem folio in swap cache case. It could lead to NULL pointer dereferencing when a in-swap-cache shmem folio is split at __xa_store(), since !folio_test_anon() is true and folio->mapping is NULL. But fortunately, its caller split_huge_page_to_list_to_order() bails out early with EBUSY when folio->mapping is NULL. So no need to take care of it here.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • be72d197b2281e2ee3f28017fc9be1ab17e26d16 to before 49100c0b070e900f87c8fac3be9b9ef8a30fa673Affected
  • 07550b1461d4d0499165e7d6f7718cfd0e440427 to before 29124ae980e2860f0eec7355949d3d3292ee81daAffected
  • fc346d0a70a13d52fe1c4bc49516d83a42cd7c4c to before c057ee03f751d6cecf7ee64f52f6545d94082aaaAffected
  • fc346d0a70a13d52fe1c4bc49516d83a42cd7c4c to before 75cfb92eb63298d717b6b0118f91ba12c4fcfeb5Affected
  • fc346d0a70a13d52fe1c4bc49516d83a42cd7c4c to before 60cf233b585cdf1f3c5e52d1225606b86acd08b0Affected
  • 6.1.71 to before 6.1.132Affected
  • 6.6.10 to before 6.6.85Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.1.132 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.85 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.21 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.9 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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