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CVE-2025-38084

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/hugetlb: unshare page tables during VMA split, not before

Currently, __split_vma() triggers hugetlb page table unsharing through
vm_ops->may_split().  This happens before the VMA lock and rmap locks are
taken - which is too early, it allows racing VMA-locked page faults in our
process and racing rmap walks from other processes to cause page tables to
be shared again before we actually perform the split.

Fix it by explicitly calling into the hugetlb unshare logic from
__split_vma() in the same place where THP splitting also happens.  At that
point, both the VMA and the rmap(s) are write-locked.

An annoying detail is that we can now call into the helper
hugetlb_unshare_pmds() from two different locking contexts:

1. from hugetlb_split(), holding:
    - mmap lock (exclusively)
    - VMA lock
    - file rmap lock (exclusively)
2. hugetlb_unshare_all_pmds(), which I think is designed to be able to
   call us with only the mmap lock held (in shared mode), but currently
   only runs while holding mmap lock (exclusively) and VMA lock

Backporting note:
This commit fixes a racy protection that was introduced in commit
b30c14cd6102 ("hugetlb: unshare some PMDs when splitting VMAs"); that
commit claimed to fix an issue introduced in 5.13, but it should actually
also go all the way back.

[jannh@google.com: v2]

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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < e8847d18cd9fff1edbb45e963d9141273c3b539c
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < 366298f2b04d2bf1f2f2b7078405bdf9df9bd5d0
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < 2511ac64bc1617ca716d3ba8464e481a647c1902
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < af6cfcd0efb7f051af221c418ec8b37a10211947
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < 9cf5b2a3b72c23fb7b84736d5d19ee6ea718762b
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < 8a21d5584826f4880f45bbf8f72375f4e6c0ff2a
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
Version < 081056dc00a27bccb55ccc3c6f230a3d5fd3f7e0
Version 39dde65c9940c97fcd178a3d2b1c57ed8b7b68aa
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 2.6.20
Status affected
Version < 2.6.20
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.10.*
Version 5.10.239
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.186
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.142
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.95
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.35
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.4
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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