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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-22034" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:11:53.301Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:56:06.819Z" 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-2025-22034" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22034.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22034" title: "mm/gup: reject FOLL_SPLIT_PMD with hugetlb VMAs" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/gup: reject FOLL_SPLIT_PMD with hugetlb VMAs\n\nPatch series \"mm: fixes for device-exclusive entries (hmm)\", v2.\n\nDiscussing the PageTail() call in make_device_exclusive_range() with\nWilly, I recently discovered [1] that device-exclusive handling does not\nproperly work with THP, making the hmm-tests selftests fail if THPs are\nenabled on the system.\n\nLooking into more details, I found that hugetlb is not properly fenced,\nand I realized that something that was bugging me for longer -- how\ndevice-exclusive entries interact with mapcounts -- completely breaks\nmigration/swapout/split/hwpoison handling of these folios while they have\ndevice-exclusive PTEs.\n\nThe program below can be used to allocate 1 GiB worth of pages and making\nthem device-exclusive on a kernel with CONFIG_TEST_HMM.\n\nOnce they are device-exclusive, these folios cannot get swapped out\n(proc$pid/smaps_rollup will always indicate 1 GiB RSS no matter how much\none forces memory reclaim), and when having a memory block onlined to\nZONE_MOVABLE, trying to offline it will loop forever and complain about\nfailed migration of a page that should be movable.\n\n# echo offline \u003e /sys/devices/system/memory/memory136/state\n# echo online_movable \u003e /sys/devices/system/memory/memory136/state\n# ./hmm-swap &\n... wait until everything is device-exclusive\n# echo offline \u003e /sys/devices/system/memory/memory136/state\n[ 285.193431][T14882] page: refcount:2 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000\n index:0x7f20671f7 pfn:0x442b6a\n[ 285.196618][T14882] memcg:ffff888179298000\n[ 285.198085][T14882] anon flags: 0x5fff0000002091c(referenced|uptodate|\n dirty|active|owner_2|swapbacked|node=1|zone=3|lastcpupid=0x7ff)\n[ 285.201734][T14882] raw: ...\n[ 285.204464][T14882] raw: ...\n[ 285.207196][T14882] page dumped because: migration failure\n[ 285.209072][T14882] page_owner tracks the page as allocated\n[ 285.210915][T14882] page last allocated via order 0, migratetype\n Movable, gfp_mask 0x140dca(GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE|__GFP_COMP|__GFP_ZERO),\n id 14926, tgid 14926 (hmm-swap), ts 254506295376, free_ts 227402023774\n[ 285.216765][T14882] post_alloc_hook+0x197/0x1b0\n[ 285.218874][T14882] get_page_from_freelist+0x76e/0x3280\n[ 285.220864][T14882] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x38e/0x2740\n[ 285.223302][T14882] alloc_pages_mpol+0x1fc/0x540\n[ 285.225130][T14882] folio_alloc_mpol_noprof+0x36/0x340\n[ 285.227222][T14882] vma_alloc_folio_noprof+0xee/0x1a0\n[ 285.229074][T14882] __handle_mm_fault+0x2b38/0x56a0\n[ 285.230822][T14882] handle_mm_fault+0x368/0x9f0\n...\n\nThis series fixes all issues I found so far. There is no easy way to fix\nwithout a bigger rework/cleanup. I have a bunch of cleanups on top (some\nprevious sent, some the result of the discussion in v1) that I will send\nout separately once this landed and I get to it.\n\nI wish we could just use some special present PROT_NONE PTEs instead of\nthese (non-present, non-none) fake-swap entries; but that just results in\nthe same problem we keep having (lack of spare PTE bits), and staring at\nother similar fake-swap entries, that ship has sailed.\n\nWith this series, make_device_exclusive() doesn't actually belong into\nmm/rmap.c anymore, but I'll leave moving that for another day.\n\nI only tested this series with the hmm-tests selftests due to lack of HW,\nso I'd appreciate some testing, especially if the interaction between two\nGPUs wanting a device-exclusive entry works as expected.\n\n\u003cprogram\u003e\n#include \u003cstdio.h\u003e\n#include \u003cfcntl.h\u003e\n#include \u003cstdint.h\u003e\n#include \u003cunistd.h\u003e\n#include \u003cstdlib.h\u003e\n#include \u003cstring.h\u003e\n#include \u003csys/mman.h\u003e\n#include \u003csys/ioctl.h\u003e\n#include \u003clinux/types.h\u003e\n#include \u003clinux/ioctl.h\u003e\n\n#define HMM_DMIRROR_EXCLUSIVE _IOWR('H', 0x05, struct hmm_dmirror_cmd)\n\nstruct hmm_dmirror_cmd {\n\t__u64 addr;\n\t__u64 ptr;\n\t__u64 npages;\n\t__u64 cpages;\n\t__u64 faults;\n};\n\nconst size_t size = 1 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024ul;\nconst size_t chunk_size = 2 * 1024 * 1024ul;\n\nint m\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"9cb28da54643ad464c47585cd5866c30b0218e67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2e877ff3492267def06dd50cb165dc9ab8838e7d"},{"version":"9cb28da54643ad464c47585cd5866c30b0218e67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"48d28417c66cce2f3b0ba773fcb6695a56eff220"},{"version":"9cb28da54643ad464c47585cd5866c30b0218e67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"fd900832e8440046627b60697687ab5d04398008"},{"version":"9cb28da54643ad464c47585cd5866c30b0218e67","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8977752c8056a6a094a279004a49722da15bace3"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.23","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.13.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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