CVE-2025-21939

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 6.10-6.12.18, 6.13.0-6.13.6 - NULL Pointer Dereference in DRM/Xe HMM

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/hmm: Don't dereference struct page pointers without notifier lock The pnfs that we obtain from hmm_range_fault() point to pages that we don't have a reference on, and the guarantee that they are still in the cpu page-tables is that the notifier lock must be held and the notifier seqno is still valid. So while building the sg table and marking the pages accesses / dirty we need to hold this lock with a validated seqno. However, the lock is reclaim tainted which makes sg_alloc_table_from_pages_segment() unusable, since it internally allocates memory. Instead build the sg-table manually. For the non-iommu case this might lead to fewer coalesces, but if that's a problem it can be fixed up later in the resource cursor code. For the iommu case, the whole sg-table may still be coalesced to a single contigous device va region. This avoids marking pages that we don't own dirty and accessed, and it also avoid dereferencing struct pages that we don't own. v2: - Use assert to check whether hmm pfns are valid (Matthew Auld) - Take into account that large pages may cross range boundaries (Matthew Auld) v3: - Don't unnecessarily check for a non-freed sg-table. (Matthew Auld) - Add a missing up_read() in an error path. (Matthew Auld) (cherry picked from commit ea3e66d280ce2576664a862693d1da8fd324c317)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0017
EPSS Percentile 7.0%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-476
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.10.0 - 6.12.19linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.13.7linux
Linux/Linux < 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.10
Linux/Linux 6.12.19 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13.7 - 6.13.*
Linux/Linux 6.14
Linux/Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 - 0a98219bcc961edd3388960576e4353e123b4a51
Linux/Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 - 2a24c98f0e4cc994334598d4f3a851972064809d
Linux/Linux 81e058a3e7fd8593d076b4f26f7b8bb49f1d61e3 - f9326f529da7298a95643c3267f1c0fdb0db55eb
... and 2 more
Published Apr 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026