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CVE-2025-39910

5.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 2

  1. References+2 references (now 4)NVD modified 2026-10-21 13:18
  2. First seenCVSS 5.5 · linuxNVD modified 2026-10-19 21:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 6

  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 4