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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-40153" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-11-12T10:23:28.201Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:43:45.768Z" 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-2025-40153" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40153.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40153" title: "mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nmm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area\n\nWhen calling mprotect() to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's\nworkload (~300GB hugetlb memory), soft lockup was observed:\n\nwatchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#98 stuck for 23s! [t2_new_sysv:126916]\n\nCPU: 98 PID: 126916 Comm: t2_new_sysv Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.17-rc7\nHardware name: GIGACOMPUTING R2A3-T40-AAV1/Jefferson CIO, BIOS 5.4.4.1 07/15/2025\npstate: 20400009 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24\nlr : mte_sync_tags+0x1c0/0x240\nsp : ffff80003150bb80\nx29: ffff80003150bb80 x28: ffff00739e9705a8 x27: 0000ffd2d6a00000\nx26: 0000ff8e4bc00000 x25: 00e80046cde00f45 x24: 0000000000022458\nx23: 0000000000000000 x22: 0000000000000004 x21: 000000011b380000\nx20: ffff000000000000 x19: 000000011b379f40 x18: 0000000000000000\nx17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000\nx14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000000\nx11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : ffffc875e0aa5e2c\nx8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000\nx5 : fffffc01ce7a5c00 x4 : 00000000046cde00 x3 : fffffc0000000000\nx2 : 0000000000000004 x1 : 0000000000000040 x0 : ffff0046cde7c000\n\nCall trace:\n  mte_clear_page_tags+0x14/0x24\n  set_huge_pte_at+0x25c/0x280\n  hugetlb_change_protection+0x220/0x430\n  change_protection+0x5c/0x8c\n  mprotect_fixup+0x10c/0x294\n  do_mprotect_pkey.constprop.0+0x2e0/0x3d4\n  __arm64_sys_mprotect+0x24/0x44\n  invoke_syscall+0x50/0x160\n  el0_svc_common+0x48/0x144\n  do_el0_svc+0x30/0xe0\n  el0_svc+0x30/0xf0\n  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc4/0x148\n  el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8\n\nSoft lockup is not triggered with THP or base page because there is\ncond_resched() called for each PMD size.\n\nAlthough the soft lockup was triggered by MTE, it should be not MTE\nspecific. The other processing which takes long time in the loop may\ntrigger soft lockup too.\n\nSo add cond_resched() for hugetlb to avoid soft lockup." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"30498c44c2a0b20f6833ed7d8fc3df901507f760"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5783485ab2be06be5312b26c8793526edc09123d"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"547e123e9d342a44c756446640ed847a8aeec611"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"957faf9582f92bb2be8ebe4ab6aa1c2bc71d9859"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"964598e6f70a1be9fe675280bf16b4f96b0a6809"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4975c975ed9457a77953a26aeef85fdba7cf5498"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c6096f3947f68f96defedb8764b3b1ca4cf3469f"},{"version":"8f860591ffb29738cf5539b6fbf27f50dcdeb380","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f52ce0ea90c83a28904c7cc203a70e6434adfecb"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"2.6.17","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"2.6.17"},{"version":"5.4.301","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.246","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.195","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.156","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.112","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.53","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.3","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","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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