CVE-2025-21851 (GCVE-0-2025-21851)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-12 09:42
Modified
2025-05-04 07:22
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB=y, arena_htab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup. The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64. It turns out arena_map_free() is calling apply_to_existing_page_range() with the address returned by bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start(). If this address is not page-aligned the code ends up calling apply_to_pte_range() with that unaligned address causing soft lockup. Fix it by round up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE << 1 so that the division by 2 in bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns a page-aligned value.
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Linux Linux Version: 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163
Version: 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163
Version: 317460317a02a1af512697e6e964298dedd8a163
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