fkie_cve-2025-68198
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-12-16 14:15
Modified
2025-12-18 15:08
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: crash: fix crashkernel resource shrink When crashkernel is configured with a high reservation, shrinking its value below the low crashkernel reservation causes two issues: 1. Invalid crashkernel resource objects 2. Kernel crash if crashkernel shrinking is done twice For example, with crashkernel=200M,high, the kernel reserves 200MB of high memory and some default low memory (say 256MB). The reservation appears as: cat /proc/iomem | grep -i crash af000000-beffffff : Crash kernel 433000000-43f7fffff : Crash kernel If crashkernel is then shrunk to 50MB (echo 52428800 > /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size), /proc/iomem still shows 256MB reserved: af000000-beffffff : Crash kernel Instead, it should show 50MB: af000000-b21fffff : Crash kernel Further shrinking crashkernel to 40MB causes a kernel crash with the following trace (x86): BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038 PGD 0 P4D 0 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI <snip...> Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27 ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x2f0 ? search_module_extables+0x19/0x60 ? search_bpf_extables+0x5f/0x80 ? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30 ? __release_resource+0xd/0xb0 release_resource+0x26/0x40 __crash_shrink_memory+0xe5/0x110 crash_shrink_memory+0x12a/0x190 kexec_crash_size_store+0x41/0x80 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x1f0 vfs_write+0x294/0x460 ksys_write+0x6d/0xf0 <snip...> This happens because __crash_shrink_memory()/kernel/crash_core.c incorrectly updates the crashk_res resource object even when crashk_low_res should be updated. Fix this by ensuring the correct crashkernel resource object is updated when shrinking crashkernel memory.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00fbff75c5acb4755f06f08bd1071879c63940c5
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2bd247f8c6c5ac3f0ba823a2fffd77bb9cdf618
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01f9c348d76d40bf104a94449e3ce4057fdefee
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f89c5e7077f63e45e8ba5a77b7cf0803130367e6
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{
  "cveTags": [],
  "descriptions": [
    {
      "lang": "en",
      "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ncrash: fix crashkernel resource shrink\n\nWhen crashkernel is configured with a high reservation, shrinking its\nvalue below the low crashkernel reservation causes two issues:\n\n1. Invalid crashkernel resource objects\n2. Kernel crash if crashkernel shrinking is done twice\n\nFor example, with crashkernel=200M,high, the kernel reserves 200MB of high\nmemory and some default low memory (say 256MB).  The reservation appears\nas:\n\ncat /proc/iomem | grep -i crash\naf000000-beffffff : Crash kernel\n433000000-43f7fffff : Crash kernel\n\nIf crashkernel is then shrunk to 50MB (echo 52428800 \u003e\n/sys/kernel/kexec_crash_size), /proc/iomem still shows 256MB reserved:\naf000000-beffffff : Crash kernel\n\nInstead, it should show 50MB:\naf000000-b21fffff : Crash kernel\n\nFurther shrinking crashkernel to 40MB causes a kernel crash with the\nfollowing trace (x86):\n\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000038\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI\n\u003csnip...\u003e\nCall Trace: \u003cTASK\u003e\n? __die_body.cold+0x19/0x27\n? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x2f0\n? search_module_extables+0x19/0x60\n? search_bpf_extables+0x5f/0x80\n? exc_page_fault+0x7e/0x180\n? asm_exc_page_fault+0x26/0x30\n? __release_resource+0xd/0xb0\nrelease_resource+0x26/0x40\n__crash_shrink_memory+0xe5/0x110\ncrash_shrink_memory+0x12a/0x190\nkexec_crash_size_store+0x41/0x80\nkernfs_fop_write_iter+0x141/0x1f0\nvfs_write+0x294/0x460\nksys_write+0x6d/0xf0\n\u003csnip...\u003e\n\nThis happens because __crash_shrink_memory()/kernel/crash_core.c\nincorrectly updates the crashk_res resource object even when\ncrashk_low_res should be updated.\n\nFix this by ensuring the correct crashkernel resource object is updated\nwhen shrinking crashkernel memory."
    }
  ],
  "id": "CVE-2025-68198",
  "lastModified": "2025-12-18T15:08:25.907",
  "metrics": {},
  "published": "2025-12-16T14:15:52.590",
  "references": [
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00fbff75c5acb4755f06f08bd1071879c63940c5"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2bd247f8c6c5ac3f0ba823a2fffd77bb9cdf618"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f01f9c348d76d40bf104a94449e3ce4057fdefee"
    },
    {
      "source": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
      "url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f89c5e7077f63e45e8ba5a77b7cf0803130367e6"
    }
  ],
  "sourceIdentifier": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis"
}


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