CVE-2025-68253

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68253
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68253.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-68253
Downstream
Published
2025-12-16T14:32:19.546Z
Modified
2026-03-09T23:49:58.890592Z
Summary
mm: don't spin in add_stack_record when gfp flags don't allow
Details

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

mm: don't spin in addstackrecord when gfp flags don't allow

syzbot was able to find the following path: addstackrecordtolist mm/pageowner.c:182 [inline] incstackrecordcount mm/page_owner.c:214 [inline] __setpageowner+0x2c3/0x4a0 mm/pageowner.c:333 setpageowner include/linux/pageowner.h:32 [inline] postallochook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/pagealloc.c:1851 prepnewpage mm/pagealloc.c:1859 [inline] getpagefromfreelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/pagealloc.c:3858 allocpagesnolocknoprof+0x94/0x120 mm/pagealloc.c:7554

Don't spin in addstackrecordtolist() when it is called from *_nolock() context.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/68xxx/CVE-2025-68253.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
97769a53f117e2f33864c587d85992ee35194ecf
Fixed
504174133453e3af73e626e328603d7eb5986f34
Fixed
c83aab85e18103a6dc066b4939e2c92a02bb1b05

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68253.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.15.0
Fixed
6.17.6

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-68253.json"