CVE-2025-40218
NoneCVSS
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EPSS
0.2%
Published
Dec 4, 2025
CISA due date
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The record
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success DAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls pte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function. This is for reading and writing page table accessed bits. If pte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk callback function with ACTION_AGAIN. pte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd migration entry, though. Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk if the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. This indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were running in parallel. Avoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk. DAMON is promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages is no problem.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Kernel | 6.5.0 | 6.6.113 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | dtb-aarch64 | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-64kb | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-azure | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-default-base | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1.160000.2.6 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-docs | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-kvmsmall | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-build | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-obs-qa | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-rt | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-source | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-syms | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | kernel-zfcpdump | 0 | 6.12.0-160000.9.1 |
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