CVE-2025-68253

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

mm: dont spin in add_stack_record when gfp flags dont allow

syzbot was able to find the following path: add_stack_record_to_list mm/page_owner.c:182 [inline] inc_stack_record_count mm/page_owner.c:214 [inline] __set_page_owner+0x2c3/0x4a0 mm/page_owner.c:333 set_page_owner include/linux/page_owner.h:32 [inline] post_alloc_hook+0x240/0x2a0 mm/page_alloc.c:1851 prep_new_page mm/page_alloc.c:1859 [inline] get_page_from_freelist+0x21e4/0x22c0 mm/page_alloc.c:3858 alloc_pages_nolock_noprof+0x94/0x120 mm/page_alloc.c:7554

Dont spin in add_stack_record_to_list() when it is called from *_nolock() context.

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/504174133453e3af73e626e328603d7eb5986f34
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c83aab85e18103a6dc066b4939e2c92a02bb1b05