CVE-2025-22045 — x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs

Affected: Linux

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs

On the following path, flush_tlb_range() can be used for zapping normal PMD entries (PMD entries that point to page tables) together with the PTE entries in the pointed-to page table:

collapse_pte_mapped_thp pmdp_collapse_flush flush_tlb_range

The arm64 version of flush_tlb_range() has a comment describing that it can be used for page table removal, and does not use any last-level invalidation optimizations. Fix the X86 version by making it behave the same way.

Currently, X86 only uses this information for the following two purposes, which I think means the issue doesn't have much impact:

- In native_flush_tlb_multi() for checking if lazy TLB CPUs need to be IPI'd to avoid issues with speculative page table walks. - In Hyper-V TLB paravirtualization, again for lazy TLB stuff.

The patch "x86/mm: only invalidate final translations with INVLPGB" which is currently under review (see <https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241230175550.4046587-13-riel@surriel.com/>) would probably be making the impact of this a lot worse.

USN-7585-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-aws-5.4, linux-azure, linux-gcp, linux-gcp-5.4, linux-ibm, linux-ibm-5.4, linux-kvm, linux-orac…

Affected: Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-aws-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-gcp-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-ibm-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS: linux-oracle-5.4, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-aws, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-azure, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-gcp, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-ibm, Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS: linux-kvm and 2 more

It was discovered that the CIFS network file system implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly verify the target namespace when handling upcalls. An attacker could use this to expose sensitive information. (CVE-2025-2312)

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - PowerPC architecture; - x86 architecture; - iSCSI Boot Firmware Table Attributes driver; - GPU drivers; - HID subsystem; - InfiniBand drivers; - Media drivers; - MemoryStick subsystem; - Network drivers; - NTB driver; - PCI subsystem; - SCSI subsystem; - Thermal drivers; - JFS file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Tracing infrastructure; - 802.1Q VLAN protocol; - Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) subsystem; - Bluetooth subsystem; - IPv6 networking; - Netfilter; - Network traffic control; - Sun RPC protocol; - USB sound devices; (CVE-2025-22007, CVE-2025-21959, CVE-2025-22021, CVE-2025-22063, CVE-2025-22045, CVE-2024-58093, CVE-2022-49636, CVE-2025-22020, CVE-2024-53168, CVE-2025-22071, CVE-2025-39735, CVE-2025-21991, CVE-2025-21992, CVE-2025-21996, CVE-2025-22035, CVE-2023-53034, CVE-2025-22054, CVE-2025-23136, CVE-2025-22073, CVE-2024-56551, CVE-2025-22005, CVE-2025-37937, CVE-2021-47211, CVE-2025-22086, CVE-2025-21956, CVE-2025-38637, CVE-2025-22004, CVE-2025-22018, CVE-2025-22079, CVE-2025-21957, CVE-2025-21993)

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CVE-2025-22045 — x86/mm: Fix flush_tlb_range() when used for zapping normal PMDs

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