CVE-2025-40353

arm64: mte: Do not warn if the page is already tagged in copy_highpage()

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Published: December 16, 2025 at 01:30 PM UTC
Updated: October 14, 2026 at 01:10 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorLinux Kernel

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Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: arm64: mte: Do not warn if the page is already tagged in copy_highpage() The arm64 copy_highpage() assumes that the destination page is newly allocated and not MTE-tagged (PG_mte_tagged unset) and warns accordingly. However, following commit 060913999d7a ("mm: migrate: support poisoned recover from migrate folio"), folio_mc_copy() is called before __folio_migrate_mapping(). If the latter fails (-EAGAIN), the copy will be done again to the same destination page. Since copy_highpage() already set the PG_mte_tagged flag, this second copy will warn. Replace the WARN_ON_ONCE(page already tagged) in the arm64 copy_highpage() with a comment.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

060913999d7a9e50c283fdb15253fc27974ddadc6.1160913999d7a9e50c283fdb15253fc27974ddadc
Vendor states this is fixed in 0bbf3fc6e9211fce9889fe8efbb89c220504d617 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 5ff5765a1fc526f07d3bbaedb061d970eb13bcf4 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in b98c94eed4a975e0c80b7e90a649a46967376f58 (fixed)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.12.56 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.17.6 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 6.18 (unaffected)

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