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Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-21853

CVE-2025-21853

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Open
TLP:CLEAR

bpf: avoid holding freeze_mutex during mmap operation

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: avoid holding freeze_mutex during mmap operation We use map->freeze_mutex to prevent races between map_freeze() and memory mapping BPF map contents with writable permissions. The way we naively do this means we'll hold freeze_mutex for entire duration of all the mm and VMA manipulations, which is completely unnecessary. This can potentially also lead to deadlocks, as reported by syzbot in [0]. So, instead, hold freeze_mutex only during writeability checks, bump (proactively) "write active" count for the map, unlock the mutex and proceed with mmap logic. And only if something went wrong during mmap logic, then undo that "write active" counter increment. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/678dcbc9.050a0220.303755.0066.GAE@google.com/

Details

EPSS Score
0.23%

14th percentile

Confidence
90%
Published
Mar 12, 2025
Last Modified
Jul 14, 2026
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