CVE-2025-39700
kernel: mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
Review impact separately from score.
Published · September 5, 2025
Updated · June 30, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/damon/ops-common: ignore migration request to invalid nodes
damon_migrate_pages() tries migration even if the target node is invalid. If users mistakenly make such invalid requests via DAMOS_MIGRATE_{HOT,COLD} action, the below kernel BUG can happen.
[ 7831.883495] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000000001f48
[ 7831.884160] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 7831.884681] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 7831.885203] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 7831.885468] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 7831.885852] CPU: 31 UID: 0 PID: 94202 Comm: kdamond.0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc5-mm-new-damon+ #93 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 7831.886913] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-4.el9 04/01/2014
[ 7831.887777] RIP: 0010:__alloc_frozen_pages_noprof (include/linux/mmzone.h:1724 include/linux/mmzone.h:1750 mm/page_alloc.c:4936 mm/page_alloc.c:5137)
[...]
[ 7831.895953] Call Trace:
[ 7831.896195] <TASK>
[ 7831.896397] __folio_alloc_noprof (mm/page_alloc.c:5183 mm/page_alloc.c:5192)
[ 7831.896787] migrate_pages_batch (mm/migrate.c:1189 mm/migrate.c:1851)
[ 7831.897228] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137)
[ 7831.897735] migrate_pages (mm/migrate.c:2078)
[ 7831.898141] ? __pfx_alloc_migration_target (mm/migrate.c:2137)
[ 7831.898664] damon_migrate_folio_list (mm/damon/ops-common.c:321 mm/damon/ops-common.c:354)
[ 7831.899140] damon_migrate_pages (mm/damon/ops-common.c:405)
[...]
Add a target node validity check in damon_migrate_pages(). The validity check is stolen from that of do_pages_move(), which is being used for the move_pages() system call.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-1284 · Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input