CVE-2025-21939CWE-476

CVE-2025-21939

High · published April 1, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
10.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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)

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00212 · 10.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2025-04-01T20:15Z
Affected products (7)
ProductVersionsFixed in
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.10, < 6.12.196.12.19
linux/linux_kernel≥ 6.13, < 6.13.76.13.7
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References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 APR 15:41Z
    drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock
    cvelistv5