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{"bugzilla": {"description": "kernel: mm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success", "id": "2418803", "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418803"}, "csaw": false, "cvss3": {"cvss3_base_score": "7.0", "cvss3_scoring_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H", "status": "draft"}, "details": ["In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\nmm/damon/vaddr: do not repeat pte_offset_map_lock() until success\nDAMON's virtual address space operation set implementation (vaddr) calls\npte_offset_map_lock() inside the page table walk callback function. This\nis for reading and writing page table accessed bits. If\npte_offset_map_lock() fails, it retries by returning the page table walk\ncallback function with ACTION_AGAIN.\npte_offset_map_lock() can continuously fail if the target is a pmd\nmigration entry, though. Hence it could cause an infinite page table walk\nif the migration cannot be done until the page table walk is finished. \nThis indeed caused a soft lockup when CPU hotplugging and DAMON were\nrunning in parallel.\nAvoid the infinite loop by simply not retrying the page table walk. DAMON\nis promising only a best-effort accuracy, so missing access to such pages\nis no problem."], "name": "CVE-2025-40218", "package_state": [{"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8", "fix_state": "Not affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}, {"cpe": "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9", "fix_state": "Affected", "package_name": "kernel-rt", "product_name": "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9"}], "public_date": "2025-12-04T00:00:00Z", "references": ["https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40218\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40218\nhttps://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025120452-CVE-2025-40218-d4dc@gregkh/T"], "threat_severity": "Moderate"}

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