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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40012" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-10-20T15:26:57.214Z" updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:07:04.409Z" 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-2025-40012" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40012.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40012" title: "net/smc: fix warning in smc_rx_splice() when calling get_page()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/smc: fix warning in smc_rx_splice() when calling get_page()\n\nsmc_lo_register_dmb() allocates DMB buffers with kzalloc(), which are\nlater passed to get_page() in smc_rx_splice(). Since kmalloc memory is\nnot page-backed, this triggers WARN_ON_ONCE() in get_page() and prevents\nholding a refcount on the buffer. This can lead to use-after-free if\nthe memory is released before splice_to_pipe() completes.\n\nUse folio_alloc() instead, ensuring DMBs are page-backed and safe for\nget_page().\n\nWARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 12152 at ./include/linux/mm.h:1330 smc_rx_splice+0xaf8/0xe20 [smc]\nCPU: 18 UID: 0 PID: 12152 Comm: smcapp Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17.0-rc3-11705-g9cf4672ecfee #10 NONE\nHardware name: IBM 3931 A01 704 (z/VM 7.4.0)\nKrnl PSW : 0704e00180000000 000793161032696c (smc_rx_splice+0xafc/0xe20 [smc])\n R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3\nKrnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 001cee80007d3001 00077400000000f8 0000000000000005\n 0000000000000001 001cee80007d3006 0007740000001000 001c000000000000\n 000000009b0c99e0 0000000000001000 001c0000000000f8 001c000000000000\n 000003ffcc6f7c88 0007740003e98000 0007931600000005 000792969b2ff7b8\nKrnl Code: 0007931610326960: af000000\t\tmc\t0,0\n 0007931610326964: a7f4ff43\t\tbrc\t15,00079316103267ea\n #0007931610326968: af000000\t\tmc\t0,0\n \u003e000793161032696c: a7f4ff3f\t\tbrc\t15,00079316103267ea\n 0007931610326970: e320f1000004\tlg\t%r2,256(%r15)\n 0007931610326976: c0e53fd1b5f5\tbrasl\t%r14,000793168fd5d560\n 000793161032697c: a7f4fbb5\t\tbrc\t15,00079316103260e6\n 0007931610326980: b904002b\t\tlgr\t%r2,%r11\nCall Trace:\n smc_rx_splice+0xafc/0xe20 [smc]\n smc_rx_splice+0x756/0xe20 [smc])\n smc_rx_recvmsg+0xa74/0xe00 [smc]\n smc_splice_read+0x1ce/0x3b0 [smc]\n sock_splice_read+0xa2/0xf0\n do_splice_read+0x198/0x240\n splice_file_to_pipe+0x7e/0x110\n do_splice+0x59e/0xde0\n __do_splice+0x11a/0x2d0\n __s390x_sys_splice+0x140/0x1f0\n __do_syscall+0x122/0x280\n system_call+0x6e/0x90\nLast Breaking-Event-Address:\nsmc_rx_splice+0x960/0xe20 [smc]\n---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"f7a22071dbf316c982fb44308874bd7ad9ac2091","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"14fc4fdae42e34d7ee871b292ac2ecc61c2c5de7"},{"version":"f7a22071dbf316c982fb44308874bd7ad9ac2091","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d5411685dc2f6ac7bdf01a0a204d56cae38c6cf6"},{"version":"f7a22071dbf316c982fb44308874bd7ad9ac2091","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"a35c04de2565db191726b5741e6b66a35002c652"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.10"},{"version":"6.12.50","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.16.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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