CVE-2025-39883 is a flaw in the Linux kernel mm/memory-failure subsystem. The unpoison_memory() path can evaluate the PG_HWPoison state of a page corresponding to an offline, uninitialized memory PFN. This triggers the VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) assertion, resulting in an invalid-opcode kernel BUG and fatal kernel panic. The fix rejects the operation when pfn_to_online_page() returns NULL, preventing processing of offline or otherwise invalid pages in this path.
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A Linux kernel memory-failure handling flaw triggered while unpoisoning memory.
A Linux kernel vulnerability in the memory-failure handling code related to VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) when unpoisoning memory.
A Linux kernel mm/memory-failure vulnerability involving VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PagePoisoned(page)) during memory unpoisoning.
A Linux kernel memory-failure handling flaw triggered while unpoisoning memory pages.
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