# CVE-2025-21907: mm: memory-failure: update ttu flag inside unmap_poisoned_folio

> A bug in Linux kernel memory failure handling causes a kernel warning during folio migration, potentially leading to system instability or denial of service.

- **Severity:** Medium 5.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 1 Apr 2025
- **Updated:** 23 May 2026
- **Also known as:** AZL-69518, BELL-CVE-2025-21907, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-21907, GHSA-497m-pmwp-3283, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-12-CVE-2025-21907, ROOT-OS-UBUNTU-2404-CVE-2025-21907, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-21907

## What is CVE-2025-21907?

CVE-2025-21907 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

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

mm: memory-failure: update ttu flag inside unmap_poisoned_folio

Patch series "mm: memory_failure: unmap poisoned folio during migrate
properly", v3.

Fix two bugs during folio migration if the folio is poisoned.

This patch (of 3):

Commit 6da6b1d4a7df ("mm/hwpoison: convert TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON to
TTU_HWPOISON") introduce TTU_HWPOISON to replace TTU_IGNORE_HWPOISON in
order to stop send SIGBUS signal when accessing an error page after a
memory error on a clean folio.  However during page migration, anon folio
must be set with TTU_HWPOISON during unmap_*().  For pagecache we need
some policy just like the one in hwpoison_user_mappings to set this flag. 
So move this policy from hwpoison_user_mappings to unmap_poisoned_folio to
handle this warning properly.

Warning will be produced during unamp poison folio with the following log:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 365 at mm/rmap.c:1847 try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 365 Comm: bash Tainted: G        W          6.13.0-rc1-00018-gacdb4bbda7ab #42
  Tainted: [W]=WARN
  Hardware name: QEMU QEMU Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
  pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
  pc : try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c
  lr : try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c
  Call trace:
   try_to_unmap_one+0x8fc/0xd3c (P)
   try_to_unmap_one+0x3dc/0xd3c (L)
   rmap_walk_anon+0xdc/0x1f8
   rmap_walk+0x3c/0x58
   try_to_unmap+0x88/0x90
   unmap_poisoned_folio+0x30/0xa8
   do_migrate_range+0x4a0/0x568
   offline_pages+0x5a4/0x670
   memory_block_action+0x17c/0x374
   memory_subsys_offline+0x3c/0x78
   device_offline+0xa4/0xd0
   state_store+0x8c/0xf0
   dev_attr_store+0x18/0x2c
   sysfs_kf_write+0x44/0x54
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8
   vfs_write+0x3a8/0x4bc
   ksys_write+0x6c/0xf8
   __arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
   invoke_syscall+0x44/0x100
   el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x40/0xe0
   do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
   el0_svc+0x30/0xd0
   el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc8/0xcc
   el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[mawupeng1@huawei.com: unmap_poisoned_folio(): remove shadowed local `mapping', per Miaohe]

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-21907?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Linux kernel.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-21907?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-21907 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21907 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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- [CVE-2013-2094](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2013-2094/): Linux Kernel Privilege Escalation (high 8.4, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2026-53362](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-53362/): Linux Kernel Unspecified (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-21907 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-21907 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 1 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-21907 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux kernel. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21907/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21907/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21907
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21907
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-21907

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-21907/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.