CVE-2025-37908 (GCVE-0-2025-37908)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-20 15:21 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:58
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Title
mm, slab: clean up slab->obj_exts always
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm, slab: clean up slab->obj_exts always When memory allocation profiling is disabled at runtime or due to an error, shutdown_mem_profiling() is called: slab->obj_exts which previously allocated remains. It won't be cleared by unaccount_slab() because of mem_alloc_profiling_enabled() not true. It's incorrect, slab->obj_exts should always be cleaned up in unaccount_slab() to avoid following error: [...]BUG: Bad page state in process... .. [...]page dumped because: page still charged to cgroup [andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: fold need_slab_obj_ext() into its only user]
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Impacted products
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Linux Linux Affected: 21c690a349baab895dc68ab70d291e1598d7109d , < dab2a13059a475b6392550f882276e170fe2fcff (git)
Affected: 21c690a349baab895dc68ab70d291e1598d7109d , < 01db0e1a48345aa1937f3bdfc7c7108d03ebcf7e (git)
Affected: 21c690a349baab895dc68ab70d291e1598d7109d , < be8250786ca94952a19ce87f98ad9906448bc9ef (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.10
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.10 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.28 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14.6 , ≤ 6.14.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.15 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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