CVE-2025-38029
CVE-2025-38029CVE-2025-38029
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
kasan: avoid sleepable page allocation from atomic context
apply_to_pte_range() enters the lazy MMU mode and then invokes
kasan_populate_vmalloc_pte() callback on each page table walk iteration.
However, the callback can go into sleep when trying to allocate a single
page, e.g. if an architecutre disables preemption on lazy MMU mode enter.
On s390 if make arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_enable() and
arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() -> preempt_disable(), such crash occurs:
[ 0.663336] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ./include/linux/sched/mm.h:321
[ 0.663348] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 2, name: kthreadd
[ 0.663358] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 0.663366] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[ 0.663375] no locks held by kthreadd/2.
[ 0.663383] Preemption disabled at:
[ 0.663386] [<0002f3284cbb4eda>] apply_to_pte_range+0xfa/0x4a0
[ 0.663405] CPU: 0
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-10-21 |