CVE-2025-38520

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38520
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38520.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38520
Downstream
AZL (2)
BELL (1)
DEBIAN (1)
ECHO (1)
openSUSE (1)
ROOT (4)
SUSE (15)
UBUNTU (1)
Related
Published
2025-08-16T10:55:07Z
Modified
2026-10-20T11:08:15Z
Summary
drm/amdkfd: Don't call mmput from MMU notifier callback
Details

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

drm/amdkfd: Don't call mmput from MMU notifier callback

If the process is exiting, the mmput inside mmu notifier callback from compactd or fork or numa balancing could release the last reference of mm struct to call exit_mmap and free_pgtable, this triggers deadlock with below backtrace.

The deadlock will leak kfd process as mmu notifier release is not called and cause VRAM leaking.

The fix is to take mm reference mmget_non_zero when adding prange to the deferred list to pair with mmput in deferred list work.

If prange split and add into pchild list, the pchild work_item.mm is not used, so remove the mm parameter from svm_range_unmap_split and svm_range_add_child.

The backtrace of hung task:

INFO: task python:348105 blocked for more than 64512 seconds. Call Trace: __schedule+0x1c3/0x550 schedule+0x46/0xb0 rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x24b/0x4c0 unlink_anon_vmas+0xb1/0x1c0 free_pgtables+0xa9/0x130 exit_mmap+0xbc/0x1a0 mmput+0x5a/0x140 svm_range_cpu_invalidate_pagetables+0x2b/0x40 [amdgpu] mn_itree_invalidate+0x72/0xc0 __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start+0x48/0x60 try_to_unmap_one+0x10fa/0x1400 rmap_walk_anon+0x196/0x460 try_to_unmap+0xbb/0x210 migrate_page_unmap+0x54d/0x7e0 migrate_pages_batch+0x1c3/0xae0 migrate_pages_sync+0x98/0x240 migrate_pages+0x25c/0x520 compact_zone+0x29d/0x590 compact_zone_order+0xb6/0xf0 try_to_compact_pages+0xbe/0x220 __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x96/0x1a0 __alloc_pages_slowpath+0x410/0x930 __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x3a9/0x3e0 do_huge_pmd_anonymous_page+0xd7/0x3e0 __handle_mm_fault+0x5e3/0x5f0 handle_mm_fault+0xf7/0x2e0 hmm_vma_fault.isra.0+0x4d/0xa0 walk_pmd_range.isra.0+0xa8/0x310 walk_pud_range+0x167/0x240 walk_pgd_range+0x55/0x100 __walk_page_range+0x87/0x90 walk_page_range+0xf6/0x160 hmm_range_fault+0x4f/0x90 amdgpu_hmm_range_get_pages+0x123/0x230 [amdgpu] amdgpu_ttm_tt_get_user_pages+0xb1/0x150 [amdgpu] init_user_pages+0xb1/0x2a0 [amdgpu] amdgpu_amdkfd_gpuvm_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x543/0x7d0 [amdgpu] kfd_ioctl_alloc_memory_of_gpu+0x24c/0x4e0 [amdgpu] kfd_ioctl+0x29d/0x500 [amdgpu]

(cherry picked from commit a29e067bd38946f752b0ef855f3dfff87e77bec7)

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38520.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
fa582c6f3684ac0098a9d02ddf0ed52a02b37127
Fixed
c1bde9d48e09933c361521720f77a8072083c83a
Fixed
145a56bd68f4bff098d59fbc7c263d20dfef4fc4
Fixed
e90ee15ce28c61f6d83a0511c3e02e2662478350
Fixed
a7eb0a25010a674c8fdfbece38353ef7be8c5834
Fixed
cf234231fcbc7d391e2135b9518613218cc5347f
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.15.49
Fixed
5.16
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
5.18.6
Fixed
5.19
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
09c5cdbc62d99fc6306a21b24b60eb11a3bd0963
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
4b29b8d7c20f54eec0ff266b4a3f419bd251ed83

Affected versions

v5.*
v5.15.100
v5.15.101
v5.15.102
v5.15.103
v5.15.104
v5.15.105
v5.15.106
v5.15.107
v5.15.108
v5.15.109
v5.15.110
v5.15.111
v5.15.112
v5.15.113
v5.15.114
v5.15.115
v5.15.116
v5.15.117
v5.15.118
v5.15.119
v5.15.120
v5.15.121
v5.15.122
v5.15.123
v5.15.124
v5.15.125
v5.15.126
v5.15.127
v5.15.128
v5.15.129
v5.15.130
v5.15.131
v5.15.132
v5.15.133
v5.15.134
v5.15.135
v5.15.136
v5.15.137
v5.15.138
v5.15.139
v5.15.140
v5.15.141
v5.15.142
v5.15.143
v5.15.144
v5.15.145
v5.15.146
v5.15.147
v5.15.148
v5.15.149
v5.15.150
v5.15.151
v5.15.152
v5.15.153
v5.15.154
v5.15.155
v5.15.156
v5.15.157
v5.15.158
v5.15.159
v5.15.160
v5.15.161
v5.15.162
v5.15.163
v5.15.164
v5.15.165
v5.15.166
v5.15.167
v5.15.168
v5.15.169
v5.15.170
v5.15.171
v5.15.172
v5.15.173
v5.15.174
v5.15.175
v5.15.176
v5.15.177
v5.15.178
v5.15.179
v5.15.180
v5.15.181
v5.15.182
v5.15.183
v5.15.184
v5.15.185
v5.15.186
v5.15.187
v5.15.188
v5.15.189
v5.15.190
v5.15.191
v5.15.192
v5.15.193
v5.15.194
v5.15.195
v5.15.196
v5.15.197
v5.15.198
v5.15.199
v5.15.200
v5.15.201
v5.15.202
v5.15.203
v5.15.204
v5.15.205
v5.15.206
v5.15.207
v5.15.208
v5.15.209
v5.15.210
v5.15.211
v5.15.212
v5.15.213
v5.15.214
v5.15.215
v5.15.216
v5.15.217
v5.15.218
v5.15.219
v5.15.220
v5.15.221
v5.15.222
v5.15.223
v5.15.49
v5.15.50
v5.15.51
v5.15.52
v5.15.53
v5.15.54
v5.15.55
v5.15.56
v5.15.57
v5.15.58
v5.15.59
v5.15.60
v5.15.61
v5.15.62
v5.15.63
v5.15.64
v5.15.65
v5.15.66
v5.15.67
v5.15.68
v5.15.69
v5.15.70
v5.15.71
v5.15.72
v5.15.73
v5.15.74
v5.15.75
v5.15.76
v5.15.77
v5.15.78
v5.15.79
v5.15.80
v5.15.81
v5.15.82
v5.15.83
v5.15.84
v5.15.85
v5.15.86
v5.15.87
v5.15.88
v5.15.89
v5.15.90
v5.15.91
v5.15.92
v5.15.93
v5.15.94
v5.15.95
v5.15.96
v5.15.97
v5.15.98
v5.15.99
v5.18.10
v5.18.11
v5.18.12
v5.18.13
v5.18.14
v5.18.15
v5.18.16
v5.18.17
v5.18.18
v5.18.19
v5.18.6
v5.18.7
v5.18.8
v5.18.9

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38520.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.19.0
Fixed
6.1.148
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.6.101
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.39
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.7

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38520.json"