CVE-2025-40199
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: Fix PP_MAGIC_MASK to avoid crashing on some 32-bit arches Helge reported that the introduction of PP_MAGIC_MASK let to crashes on boot on his 32-bit parisc machine. The cause of this is the mask is set too wide, so the page_pool_page_is_pp() incurs false positives which crashes the machine. Just disabling the check in page_pool_is_pp() will lead to the page_pool code itself malfunctioning; so instead of doing this, this patch changes the define for PP_DMA_INDEX_BITS to avoid mistaking arbitrary kernel pointers for page_pool-tagged pages. The fix relies on the kernel pointers that alias with the pp_magic field always being above PAGE_OFFSET. With this assumption, we can use the lowest bit of the value of PAGE_OFFSET as the upper bound of the PP_DMA_INDEX_MASK, which should avoid the false positives. Because we cannot rely on PAGE_OFFSET always being a compile-time constant, nor on it always being >0, we fall back to disabling the dma_index storage when there are not enough bits available. This leaves us in the situation we were in before the patch in the Fixes tag, but only on a subset of architecture configurations. This seems to be the best we can do until the transition to page types in complete for page_pool pages. v2: - Make sure there's at least 8 bits available and that the PAGE_OFFSET bit calculation doesn't wrap
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4f51fb0d257ff4d406ec27966902de075e3b118e | affected | git | 15b8a5b4cdc16e9a8bb2a548e12a0fd92997605a | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 | affected | git | f62934cea32c8f7b11b747975d69bf5afe4264cf | Unavailable | None listed |
| ee62ce7a1d909ccba0399680a03c2dee83bcae95 | affected | git | 95920c2ed02bde551ab654e9749c2ca7bc3100e0 | Unavailable | None listed |
| c30ae60f41f9edd6e1b5cad41cf28ce04dae39e4 | affected | git | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.34 | affected | semver | 6.12.54 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.15.3 | affected | semver | 6.16 | Unavailable | None listed |
Linux
- Vendor
- Linux
- Product
- Linux
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
affected
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6.16 | affected | Unavailable | Unavailable | Unavailable | None listed |
| 0 | unaffected | semver | 6.16 | Unavailable | None listed |
| 6.12.54 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.12.* | None listed |
| 6.17.4 | unaffected | semver | Unavailable | 6.17.* | None listed |
| 6.18 | unaffected | original_commit_for_fix | Unavailable | * | None listed |