CVE-2025-40153

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's workload 300GB hugetlb memory, soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU98...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40153

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's workload 300GB hugetlb memory, soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU98...

CVE-2025-40153 mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm: hugetlb: avoid soft lockup when mprotect to large memory area When calling mprotect to a large hugetlb memory area in our customer's workload 300GB hugetlb memory, soft lockup was observed: watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU98...

CVE-2025-40153

CVE-2025-40153 : In the Linux kernel, the vulnerability arises when calling mprotect() on large hugetlb memory, causing a soft lockup in the hugetlb code. The fix adds a cond_resched() inside the hugetlb protection change path to avoid long mutual-wait loops (noted in the advisory as triggered by...