CVE-2025-37898

Technical Description

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

powerpc64/ftrace: fix module loading without patchable function entries

get_stubs_size assumes that there must always be at least one patchable

function entry, which is not always the case (modules that export data

but no code), otherwise it returns -ENOEXEC and thus the section header

sh_size is set to that value. During module_memory_alloc() the size is

passed to execmem_alloc() after being page-aligned and thus set to zero

which will cause it to fail the allocation (and thus module loading) as

__vmalloc_node_range() checks for zero-sized allocs and returns null:

[ 115.466896] module_64: cast_common: doesn't contain __patchable_function_entries.

[ 115.469189] ------------[ cut here ]------------

[ 115.469496] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 274 at mm/vmalloc.c:3778 __vmalloc_node_range_noprof+0x8b4/0x8f0

...

[ 115.478574] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

[ 115.479545] execmem: unable to allocate memory

Fix this by

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References