CVE-2025-37868

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Deadlock in drm/xe/userptr Notifier vs Folio

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/xe/userptr: fix notifier vs folio deadlock User is reporting what smells like notifier vs folio deadlock, where migrate_pages_batch() on core kernel side is holding folio lock(s) and then interacting with the mappings of it, however those mappings are tied to some userptr, which means calling into the notifier callback and grabbing the notifier lock. With perfect timing it looks possible that the pages we pulled from the hmm fault can get sniped by migrate_pages_batch() at the same time that we are holding the notifier lock to mark the pages as accessed/dirty, but at this point we also want to grab the folio locks(s) to mark them as dirty, but if they are contended from notifier/migrate_pages_batch side then we deadlock since folio lock won't be dropped until we drop the notifier lock. Fortunately the mark_page_accessed/dirty is not really needed in the first place it seems and should have already been done by hmm fault, so just remove it. (cherry picked from commit bd7c0cb695e87c0e43247be8196b4919edbe0e85)

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.2%
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-667
Status published
Products (5)
linux/Kernel < 6.12.25linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.14.4linux
linux/linux_kernel 6.14 (3 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.15 rc1 (2 CPE variants)
linux/linux_kernel 6.12.19 - 6.12.25
Published May 09, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026