CVE-2025-22000
mm/huge_memory: drop beyond-EOF folios with the right number of refs
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/huge_memory: drop beyond-EOF folios with the right number of refs When an after-split folio is large and needs to be dropped due to EOF, folio_put_refs(folio, folio_nr_pages(folio)) should be used to drop all page cache refs. Otherwise, the folio will not be freed, causing memory leak. This leak would happen on a filesystem with blocksize > page_size and a truncate is performed, where the blocksize makes folios split to >0 order ones, causing truncated folios not being freed.
| Vendor | linux |
| Product | linux |
| Ecosystems | |
| Industries | Technology |
| Published | Apr 3, 2025 |
| Last Updated | May 11, 2026 |
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Affected Versions
Linux / Linux
c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 < 86368616a9ce51f6b41efa251b6e066893851d67 c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 < 92ad820a1f2d95d5a8d6c2bd3f391bbb068a5f9e c010d47f107f609b9f4d6a103b6dfc53889049e9 < 14efb4793519d73fb2902bb0ece319b886e4b4b9
Linux / Linux
6.9