CVE-2025-21778: tracing: Do not allow mmap() of persistent ring buffer
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Do not allow mmap() of persistent ring buffer
When trying to mmap a trace instance buffer that is attached to
reserve_mem, it would crash:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe97bd00025c8
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 2862f3067 P4D 2862f3067 PUD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP PTI
CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 981 Comm: mmap-rb Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2-test-00003-g7f1a5e3fbf9e-dirty #233
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:validate_page_before_insert+0x5/0xb0
Code: e2 01 89 d0 c3 cc cc cc cc 66 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 46 08 a8 01 75 67 66 90 48 89 f0 8b 50 34 85 d2 74 76 48 89
RSP: 0018:ffffb148c2f3f968 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff9fa5d3322000 RBX: ffff9fa5ccff9c08 RCX: 00000000b879ed29
RDX: ffffe97bd00025c0 RSI: ffffe97bd00025c0 RDI: ffff9fa5ccff9c08
RBP: ffffb148c2f3f9f0 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: 0000000000000004
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000200 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007f16a18d5000 R14: ffff9fa5c48db6a8 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f16a1b54740(0000) GS:ffff9fa73df00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffffe97bd00025c8 CR3: 00000001048c6006 CR4: 0000000000172ef0
Call Trace:
? __die_body.cold...
Classification
CVE ID: CVE-2025-21778
Affected Products
Vendor: Linux, Linux
Product: Linux, Linux
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 3.82% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)
References
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21778https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e8dff5f73912513fc9b52ab992d861517c9a9975
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cf5aa560e5c7628b57c928741d7e6a9a0f6f0e67
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/129fe718819cc5e24ea2f489db9ccd4371f0c6f6