{"dataType":"CVE_RECORD","dataVersion":"5.2","cveMetadata":{"cveId":"CVE-2025-38029","assignerOrgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","state":"PUBLISHED","assignerShortName":"Linux","dateReserved":"2025-04-16T04:51:23.978Z","datePublished":"2025-06-18T09:33:17.632Z","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:19:55.115Z"},"containers":{"cna":{"providerMetadata":{"orgId":"416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67","shortName":"Linux","dateUpdated":"2026-05-11T21:19:55.115Z"},"descriptions":[{"lang":"en","value":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nkasan: avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context\n\napply_to_pte_range() enters the lazy MMU mode and then invokes\nkasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on each page table walk iteration. \nHowever, the callback can go into sleep when trying to allocate a single\npage, e.g.  if an architecutre disables preemption on lazy MMU mode enter.\n\nOn s390 if make arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_enable() and\narch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_disable(), such crash occurs:\n\n[    0.663336] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:321\n[    0.663348] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd\n[    0.663358] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0\n[    0.663366] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0\n[    0.663375] no locks held by kthreadd/2.\n[    0.663383] Preemption disabled at:\n[    0.663386] [<0002f3284cbb4eda>] apply_to_pte_range+0xfa/0x4a0\n[    0.663405] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 2 Comm: kthreadd Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5-gcc-kasan-00043-gd76bb1ebb558-dirty #162 PREEMPT\n[    0.663408] Hardware name: IBM 3931 A01 701 (KVM/Linux)\n[    0.663409] Call Trace:\n[    0.663410]  [<0002f3284c385f58>] dump_stack_lvl+0xe8/0x140\n[    0.663413]  [<0002f3284c507b9e>] __might_resched+0x66e/0x700\n[    0.663415]  [<0002f3284cc4f6c0>] __alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x370/0x4b0\n[    0.663419]  [<0002f3284ccc73c0>] alloc_pages_mpol+0x1a0/0x4a0\n[    0.663421]  [<0002f3284ccc8518>] alloc_frozen_pages_noprof+0x88/0xc0\n[    0.663424]  [<0002f3284ccc8572>] alloc_pages_noprof+0x22/0x120\n[    0.663427]  [<0002f3284cc341ac>] get_free_pages_noprof+0x2c/0xc0\n[    0.663429]  [<0002f3284cceba70>] kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte+0x50/0x120\n[    0.663433]  [<0002f3284cbb4ef8>] apply_to_pte_range+0x118/0x4a0\n[    0.663435]  [<0002f3284cbc7c14>] apply_to_pmd_range+0x194/0x3e0\n[    0.663437]  [<0002f3284cbc99be>] __apply_to_page_range+0x2fe/0x7a0\n[    0.663440]  [<0002f3284cbc9e88>] apply_to_page_range+0x28/0x40\n[    0.663442]  [<0002f3284ccebf12>] kasan_populate_vmalloc+0x82/0xa0\n[    0.663445]  [<0002f3284cc1578c>] alloc_vmap_area+0x34c/0xc10\n[    0.663448]  [<0002f3284cc1c2a6>] __get_vm_area_node+0x186/0x2a0\n[    0.663451]  [<0002f3284cc1e696>] __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x116/0x310\n[    0.663454]  [<0002f3284cc1d950>] __vmalloc_node_noprof+0xd0/0x110\n[    0.663457]  [<0002f3284c454b88>] alloc_thread_stack_node+0xf8/0x330\n[    0.663460]  [<0002f3284c458d56>] dup_task_struct+0x66/0x4d0\n[    0.663463]  [<0002f3284c45be90>] copy_process+0x280/0x4b90\n[    0.663465]  [<0002f3284c460940>] kernel_clone+0xd0/0x4b0\n[    0.663467]  [<0002f3284c46115e>] kernel_thread+0xbe/0xe0\n[    0.663469]  [<0002f3284c4e440e>] kthreadd+0x50e/0x7f0\n[    0.663472]  [<0002f3284c38c04a>] __ret_from_fork+0x8a/0xf0\n[    0.663475]  [<0002f3284ed57ff2>] ret_from_fork+0xa/0x38\n\nInstead of allocating single pages per-PTE, bulk-allocate the shadow\nmemory prior to applying kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on a page\nrange."}],"affected":[{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["mm/kasan/shadow.c"],"versions":[{"version":"3c5c3cfb9ef4da957e3357a2bd36f76ee34c0862","lessThan":"6748dd09196248b985cca39eaf651d5317271977","status":"affected","versionType":"git"},{"version":"3c5c3cfb9ef4da957e3357a2bd36f76ee34c0862","lessThan":"b6ea95a34cbd014ab6ade4248107b86b0aaf2d6c","status":"affected","versionType":"git"}]},{"product":"Linux","vendor":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","programFiles":["mm/kasan/shadow.c"],"versions":[{"version":"5.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","lessThan":"5.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.14.9","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver"},{"version":"6.15","lessThanOrEqual":"*","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix"}]}],"cpeApplicability":[{"nodes":[{"operator":"OR","negate":false,"cpeMatch":[{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"6.14.9"},{"vulnerable":true,"criteria":"cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","versionStartIncluding":"5.5","versionEndExcluding":"6.15"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6748dd09196248b985cca39eaf651d5317271977"},{"url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6ea95a34cbd014ab6ade4248107b86b0aaf2d6c"}],"title":"kasan: avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context","x_generator":{"engine":"bippy-1.2.0"}}}}