CVE-2025-39845

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

x86/mm/64: define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings()

Define ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK and arch_sync_kernel_mappings() to ensure
page tables are properly synchronized when calling p*d_populate_kernel().

For 5-level paging, synchronization is performed via
pgd_populate_kernel().  In 4-level paging, pgd_populate() is a no-op, so
synchronization is instead performed at the P4D level via
p4d_populate_kernel().

This fixes intermittent boot failures on systems using 4-level paging and
a large amount of persistent memory:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffe70000000034
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
  RIP: 0010:__init_single_page+0x9/0x6d
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   __init_zone_device_page+0x17/0x5d
   memmap_init_zone_device+0x154/0x1bb
   pagemap_range+0x2e0/0x40f
   memremap_pages+0x10b/0x2f0
   devm_memremap_pages+0x1e/0x60
   dev_dax_probe+0xce/0x2ec [device_dax]
   dax_bus_probe+0x6d/0xc9
   [... snip ...]
   </TASK>

It also fixes a crash in vmemmap_set_pmd() caused by accessing vmemmap
before sync_global_pgds() [1]:

  BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffeb3ff1200000
  #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
  #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
  PGD 0 P4D 0
  Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
  Tainted: [W]=WARN
  RIP: 0010:vmemmap_set_pmd+0xff/0x230
   <TASK>
   vmemmap_populate_hugepages+0x176/0x180
   vmemmap_populate+0x34/0x80
   __populate_section_memmap+0x41/0x90
   sparse_add_section+0x121/0x3e0
   __add_pages+0xba/0x150
   add_pages+0x1d/0x70
   memremap_pages+0x3dc/0x810
   devm_memremap_pages+0x1c/0x60
   xe_devm_add+0x8b/0x100 [xe]
   xe_tile_init_noalloc+0x6a/0x70 [xe]
   xe_device_probe+0x48c/0x740 [xe]
   [... snip ...]
ProviderTypeBase ScoreAtk. VectorAtk. ComplexityPriv. RequiredVector
NISTNIST
UNKNOWN
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LinuxCNA
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Awaiting analysis
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Base Score
CVSS 3.x
EPSS Score
Percentile: Unknown
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