Vulnerability · Published Apr 1, 2025 · Assigned by Linux

CVE-2025-21931hwpoison, memory_hotplug: lock folio before unmap hwpoisoned folio

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in Linux from Linux. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 5% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)5.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 95.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: hwpoison, memory_hotplug: lock folio before unmap hwpoisoned folio Commit b15c87263a69 ("hwpoison, memory_hotplug: allow hwpoisoned pages to be offlined) add page poison checks in do_migrate_range in order to make offline hwpoisoned page possible by introducing isolate_lru_page and try_to_unmap for hwpoisoned page. However folio lock must be held before calling try_to_unmap. Add it to fix this problem. Warning will be produced if folio is not locked during unmap: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at ./include/linux/swapops.h:400! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 411 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 6.13.0-rc1-00016-g3c434c7ee82a-dirty #41 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 40400005 (nZcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) pc : try_to_unmap_one+0xb08/0xd3c lr : try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c Call trace: try_to_unmap_one+0xb08/0xd3c (P) try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c (L) rmap_walk_anon+0xdc/0x1f8 rmap_walk+0x3c/0x58 try_to_unmap+0x88/0x90 unmap_poisoned_folio+0x30/0xa8 do_migrate_range+0x4a0/0x568 offline_pages+0x5a4/0x670 memory_block_action+0x17c/0x374 memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x78 device_offline+0xa4/0xd0 state_store+0x8c/0xf0 dev_attr_store+0x18/0x2c sysfs_kf_write+0x44/0x54 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8 vfs_write+0x3a8/0x4bc ksys_write+0x6c/0xf8 __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28 invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0 do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28 el0_svc+0x30/0xd0 el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xcc el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c Code: f9407be0 b5fff320 d4210000 17ffff97 (d4210000) ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian:12linux6.1.140-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21931
Debian:12linux6.1.140-1DSA-5925-1
Debian:13linux6.12.19-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21931
Debian:14linux6.12.19-1DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinuxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-100.100UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux6.8.0-100.100USN-8028-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-allwinner-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-awsno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1046.49UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-aws6.8.0-1046.49USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-aws-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azureno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1046.52USN-8074-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure6.8.0-1046.52UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1USN-8126-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-6.86.8.0-1051.57~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fdeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde6.8.0-1046.53UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-azure-fde-6.86.8.0-1046.53~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-azure-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1047.50UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp6.8.0-1047.50USN-8031-3
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gcp-6.86.8.0-1047.50~22.04.2USN-8031-1
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1043.48USN-8031-3
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gke6.8.0-1043.48UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-gkeopno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1030.33USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-gkeop6.8.0-1030.33UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100~22.04.1USN-8028-6
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1044.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-ibm6.8.0-1044.44USN-8028-8
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-ibm-6.86.8.0-1044.44~22.04.1USN-8028-8
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-intelno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iot-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-intel-iotgno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-kvmno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatencyno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-100.100.1USN-8052-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency6.8.0-100.100.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-lowlatency-hwe-6.86.8.0-100.100.1~22.04.1USN-8028-6
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidiano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1046.49USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia6.8.0-1046.49UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-6.86.8.0-1046.49~22.04.1USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1046.49.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-lowlatency6.8.0-1046.49.1USN-8028-7
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegrano fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra6.8.0-1020.20UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-nvidia-tegra-igxno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-5.17no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.0no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.1no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.11no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oem-6.8no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracleno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1043.44USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-oracle6.8.0-1043.44UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1USN-8028-5
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-oracle-6.86.8.0-1043.44~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-raspino fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1047.51UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi6.8.0-1047.51USN-8028-1
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-raspi-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-realtimeno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-riscvno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-riscv-6.86.8.0-100.100~22.04.1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-5.19no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.2no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-starfive-6.5no fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1023.24USN-8052-2
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSlinux-xilinx6.8.0-1023.24UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931
Ubuntu:22.04:LTSlinux-xilinx-zynqmpno fix listedUBUNTU-CVE-2025-21931

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Linux Linux b15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa – before 3926b572fd073491bde13ec42ee08ac1b337bf4db15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa – before 93df6da64b004f75d307ed08d3f0f1020280d339b15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa – before 576a2f4c437c19bec7d05d05b5990f178d2b0f40b15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa – before 629dfc6ba5431056701d4e44830f3409b989955ab15c87263a69272423771118c653e9a1d0672caa – before af288a426c3e3552b62595c6138ec6371a17dbba85ef35ab972b7484f41c3bb2bbc79de212e19129060853fdd434ce620dd1dd7619ede834bd33b9d0cb1206e85df291fefde27401190329e26996c54c
Linux Linux 5.0

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