CVE-2025-39899

mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Oct 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

mm/userfaultfd: fix kmap_local LIFO ordering for CONFIG_HIGHPTE

With CONFIG_HIGHPTE on 32-bit ARM, move_pages_pte() maps PTE pages using kmap_local_page(), which requires unmapping in Last-In-First-Out order.

The current code maps dst_pte first, then src_pte, but unmaps them in the same order (dst_pte, src_pte), violating the LIFO requirement. This causes the warning in kunmap_local_indexed():

WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 604 at mm/highmem.c:622 kunmap_local_indexed+0x178/0x17c addr \!= __fix_to_virt(FIX_KMAP_BEGIN + idx)

Fix this by reversing the unmap order to respect LIFO ordering.

This issue follows the same pattern as similar fixes: - commit eca6828403b8 ("crypto: skcipher - fix mismatch between mapping and unmapping order") - commit 8cf57c6df818 ("nilfs2: eliminate staggered calls to kunmap in nilfs_rename")

Both of which addressed the same fundamental requirement that kmap_local operations must follow LIFO ordering.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 to before b051f707018967ea8f697d790a1ed8c443f63812Affected
  • adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 to before bd1ee62759d0bd4d6b909731c076c230ac89d61eAffected
  • adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0 to before 9614d8bee66387501f48718fa306e17f2aa3f2f3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.8Affected
  • before 6.8Not affected
  • 6.12.46 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.16.6 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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