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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21984" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-01T15:47:11.523Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:55:50.769Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21984" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21984.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21984" title: "mm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: fix kernel BUG when userfaultfd_move encounters swapcache\n\nuserfaultfd_move() checks whether the PTE entry is present or a\nswap entry.\n\n- If the PTE entry is present, move_present_pte() handles folio\n migration by setting:\n\n src_folio-\u003eindex = linear_page_index(dst_vma, dst_addr);\n\n- If the PTE entry is a swap entry, move_swap_pte() simply copies\n the PTE to the new dst_addr.\n\nThis approach is incorrect because, even if the PTE is a swap entry,\nit can still reference a folio that remains in the swap cache.\n\nThis creates a race window between steps 2 and 4.\n 1. add_to_swap: The folio is added to the swapcache.\n 2. try_to_unmap: PTEs are converted to swap entries.\n 3. pageout: The folio is written back.\n 4. Swapcache is cleared.\nIf userfaultfd_move() occurs in the window between steps 2 and 4,\nafter the swap PTE has been moved to the destination, accessing the\ndestination triggers do_swap_page(), which may locate the folio in\nthe swapcache. However, since the folio's index has not been updated\nto match the destination VMA, do_swap_page() will detect a mismatch.\n\nThis can result in two critical issues depending on the system\nconfiguration.\n\nIf KSM is disabled, both small and large folios can trigger a BUG\nduring the add_rmap operation due to:\n\n page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address)\n\n[ 13.336953] page: refcount:6 mapcount:1 mapping:00000000f43db19c index:0xffffaf150 pfn:0x4667c\n[ 13.337520] head: order:2 mapcount:1 entire_mapcount:0 nr_pages_mapped:1 pincount:0\n[ 13.337716] memcg:ffff00000405f000\n[ 13.337849] anon flags: 0x3fffc0000020459(locked|uptodate|dirty|owner_priv_1|head|swapbacked|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xffff)\n[ 13.338630] raw: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361\n[ 13.338831] raw: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000\n[ 13.339031] head: 03fffc0000020459 ffff80008507b538 ffff80008507b538 ffff000006260361\n[ 13.339204] head: 0000000ffffaf150 0000000000004000 0000000600000000 ffff00000405f000\n[ 13.339375] head: 03fffc0000000202 fffffdffc0199f01 ffffffff00000000 0000000000000001\n[ 13.339546] head: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000\n[ 13.339736] page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(page_pgoff(folio, page) != linear_page_index(vma, address))\n[ 13.340190] ------------[ cut here ]------------\n[ 13.340316] kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:1380!\n[ 13.340683] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP\n[ 13.340969] Modules linked in:\n[ 13.341257] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 107 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.14.0-rc3-gcf42737e247a-dirty #299\n[ 13.341470] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)\n[ 13.341671] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\n[ 13.341815] pc : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0\n[ 13.341920] lr : __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0\n[ 13.342018] sp : ffff80008752bb20\n[ 13.342093] x29: ffff80008752bb20 x28: fffffdffc0199f00 x27: 0000000000000001\n[ 13.342404] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: 0000000000000001\n[ 13.342575] x23: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x22: 0000ffffaf0d0000 x21: fffffdffc0199f00\n[ 13.342731] x20: fffffdffc0199f00 x19: ffff000006210700 x18: 00000000ffffffff\n[ 13.342881] x17: 6c203d2120296567 x16: 6170202c6f696c6f x15: 662866666f67705f\n[ 13.343033] x14: 6567617028454741 x13: 2929737365726464 x12: ffff800083728ab0\n[ 13.343183] x11: ffff800082996bf8 x10: 0000000000000fd7 x9 : ffff80008011bc40\n[ 13.343351] x8 : 0000000000017fe8 x7 : 00000000fffff000 x6 : ffff8000829eebf8\n[ 13.343498] x5 : c0000000fffff000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000\n[ 13.343645] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : ffff0000062db980 x0 : 000000000000005f\n[ 13.343876] Call trace:\n[ 13.344045] __page_check_anon_rmap+0xa0/0xb0 (P)\n[ 13.344234] folio_add_anon_rmap_ptes+0x22c/0x320\n[ 13.344333] do_swap_page+0x1060/0x1400\n[ 13.344417] __handl\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4e9507246298fd6f1ca7bb42ef01a6e34fb93684"},{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b1e11bd86c0943bb7624efebdc384340a50ad683"},{"version":"adef440691bab824e39c1b17382322d195e1fab0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c50f8e6053b0503375c2975bf47f182445aebb4c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.8","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.8"},{"version":"6.12.20","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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