CVE-2025-40040 (GCVE-0-2025-40040)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-10-28 11:48
Modified
2026-10-15 22:02
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise syzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG) [ 44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067! [ 44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI [ 44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none) [ 44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460 <snip other registers, drop unreliable trace> [ 44.617726] Call Trace: [ 44.617926] <TASK> [ 44.619284] userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0 [ 44.620976] __fput+0x3f9/0xb60 [ 44.621240] fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210 [ 44.622222] __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120 [ 44.622530] do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0 [ 44.622840] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227 Kernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during userfaultfd_release_all(). Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer to vma->vm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma->vm_flags. The inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise() with MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode, it accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of vma->vm_flags. Assuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and int are 32-bit wide. This setup causes the following mishap during the &= ~VM_MERGEABLE assignment. VM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000'0000. After ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff'ffff unsigned int, which is then promoted to unsigned long before the & operation. This promotion fills upper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we're doing unsigned conversion (and even for a signed conversion, this wouldn't help as the leading bit is 0). & operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000'0000'7fff'ffff instead of intended 0xffff'ffff'7fff'ffff and hence accidentally clears the upper 32-bits of its value. Fix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the BIT() macro. Note: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the VM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int and after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted to unsigned long with leading 1s. Note 2: After commit 31defc3b01d9 ("userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s"), this is no longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place: [ 45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067 but the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn't able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]
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resolved:\\n\\nmm/ksm: fix flag-dropping behavior in ksm_madvise\\n\\nsyzkaller discovered the following crash: (kernel BUG)\\n\\n[   44.607039] ------------[ cut here ]------------\\n[   44.607422] kernel BUG at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067!\\n[   44.608148] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP DEBUG_PAGEALLOC KASAN NOPTI\\n[   44.608814] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2475 Comm: reproducer Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6 #1 PREEMPT(none)\\n[   44.609635] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.16.3-0-ga6ed6b701f0a-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\\n[   44.610695] RIP: 0010:userfaultfd_release_all+0x3a8/0x460\\n\\n\u003csnip other registers, drop unreliable trace\u003e\\n\\n[   44.617726] Call Trace:\\n[   44.617926]  \u003cTASK\u003e\\n[   44.619284]  userfaultfd_release+0xef/0x1b0\\n[   44.620976]  __fput+0x3f9/0xb60\\n[   44.621240]  fput_close_sync+0x110/0x210\\n[   44.622222]  __x64_sys_close+0x8f/0x120\\n[   44.622530]  do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x2f0\\n[   44.622840]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\\n[   44.623244] RIP: 0033:0x7f365bb3f227\\n\\nKernel panics because it detects UFFD inconsistency during\\nuserfaultfd_release_all().  Specifically, a VMA which has a valid pointer\\nto vma-\u003evm_userfaultfd_ctx, but no UFFD flags in vma-\u003evm_flags.\\n\\nThe inconsistency is caused in ksm_madvise(): when user calls madvise()\\nwith MADV_UNMEARGEABLE on a VMA that is registered for UFFD in MINOR mode,\\nit accidentally clears all flags stored in the upper 32 bits of\\nvma-\u003evm_flags.\\n\\nAssuming x86_64 kernel build, unsigned long is 64-bit and unsigned int and\\nint are 32-bit wide.  This setup causes the following mishap during the \u0026=\\n~VM_MERGEABLE assignment.\\n\\nVM_MERGEABLE is a 32-bit constant of type unsigned int, 0x8000\u00270000. \\nAfter ~ is applied, it becomes 0x7fff\u0027ffff unsigned int, which is then\\npromoted to unsigned long before the \u0026 operation.  This promotion fills\\nupper 32 bits with leading 0s, as we\u0027re doing unsigned conversion (and\\neven for a signed conversion, this wouldn\u0027t help as the leading bit is 0).\\n\u0026 operation thus ends up AND-ing vm_flags with 0x0000\u00270000\u00277fff\u0027ffff\\ninstead of intended 0xffff\u0027ffff\u00277fff\u0027ffff and hence accidentally clears\\nthe upper 32-bits of its value.\\n\\nFix it by changing `VM_MERGEABLE` constant to unsigned long, using the\\nBIT() macro.\\n\\nNote: other VM_* flags are not affected: This only happens to the\\nVM_MERGEABLE flag, as the other VM_* flags are all constants of type int\\nand after ~ operation, they end up with leading 1 and are thus converted\\nto unsigned long with leading 1s.\\n\\nNote 2:\\nAfter commit 31defc3b01d9 (\\\"userfaultfd: remove (VM_)BUG_ON()s\\\"), this is\\nno longer a kernel BUG, but a WARNING at the same place:\\n\\n[   45.595973] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2474 at mm/userfaultfd.c:2067\\n\\nbut the root-cause (flag-drop) remains the same.\\n\\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rust bindgen wasn\u0027t able to handle BIT(), from Miguel]\"}], \"cpeApplicability\": [{\"nodes\": [{\"negate\": false, \"cpeMatch\": [{\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"5.4.302\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"5.10.247\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"5.15.197\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"6.1.158\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"6.6.114\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"6.12.55\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"6.17.3\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}, {\"criteria\": \"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*\", \"vulnerable\": true, \"versionEndExcluding\": \"6.18\", \"versionStartIncluding\": \"4.6\"}], \"operator\": \"OR\"}]}], \"providerMetadata\": {\"orgId\": \"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67\", \"shortName\": \"Linux\", \"dateUpdated\": \"2026-08-05T12:07:14.111Z\"}}}",
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