CVE-2025-39910
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc, mm/kasan: respect gfp mask in kasan_populate_vmalloc() kasan_populate_vmalloc() and its helpers ignore the caller's gfp_mask and always allocate memory using the hardcoded GFP_KERNEL flag. This makes them inconsistent with vmalloc(), which was recently extended to support GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO allocations. Page table allocations performed during shadow population also ignore the external gfp_mask. To preserve the intended semantics of GFP_NOFS and GFP_NOIO, wrap the apply_to_page_range() calls into the appropriate memalloc scope. xfs calls vmalloc with GFP_NOFS, so this bug could lead to deadlock. There was a report here https://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] This patch: - Extends kasan_populate_vmalloc() and helpers to take gfp_mask; - Passes gfp_mask down to alloc_pages_bulk() and __get_free_page(); - Enforces GFP_NOFS/NOIO semantics with memalloc_*_save()/restore() around apply_to_page_range(); - Updates vmalloc.c and percpu allocator call sites accordingly.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 451769ebb7e792c3404db53b3c2a422990de654e - < 33b95d90427cb4babf32059e323a6d0c027610feaffected 451769ebb7e792c3404db53b3c2a422990de654e - < 79357cd06d41d0f5a11b17d7c86176e395d10ef2 |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.17unaffected 0 - < 5.17unaffected 6.16.8 - <= 6.16.*unaffected 6.17 - <= * |
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