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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-39725"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-05T17:27:18.719Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-23T16:00:35.031Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-39725"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-39725.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39725"
title: "mm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm/vmscan: fix hwpoisoned large folio handling in shrink_folio_list\n\nIn shrink_folio_list(), the hwpoisoned folio may be large folio, which\ncan't be handled by unmap_poisoned_folio().  For THP, try_to_unmap_one()\nmust be passed with TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD to split huge PMD first and then\nretry.  Without TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger null-ptr deref of\npvmw.pte.  Even we passed TTU_SPLIT_HUGE_PMD, we will trigger a\nWARN_ON_ONCE due to the page isn't in swapcache.\n\nSince UCE is rare in real world, and race with reclaimation is more rare,\njust skipping the hwpoisoned large folio is enough.  memory_failure() will\nhandle it if the UCE is triggered again.\n\nThis happens when memory reclaim for large folio races with\nmemory_failure(), and will lead to kernel panic.  The race is as\nfollows:\n\ncpu0      cpu1\n shrink_folio_list memory_failure\n  TestSetPageHWPoison\n  unmap_poisoned_folio\n  --\u003e trigger BUG_ON due to\n  unmap_poisoned_folio couldn't\n   handle large folio\n\n[tujinjiang@huawei.com: add comment to unmap_poisoned_folio()]"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1c9798bf8145a92abf45aa9d38a6406d9eb8bdf0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"656eaddbc952e1baae2f69281c22debe22140312"},{"version":"1b0449544c6482179ac84530b61fc192a6527bfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c1101113d45838a823188ae25c61af97552a28ae"},{"version":"1b0449544c6482179ac84530b61fc192a6527bfd","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"9f1e8cd0b7c4c944e9921b52a6661b5eda2705ab"},{"version":"912e9f0300c3564b72a8808db406e313193a37ad","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"6.12.26","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12.41"},{"version":"6.14.5","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.15"},{"version":"6.12.41","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.9","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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