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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: vhost/vsock: Use kvmalloc/kvfree for larger packets. When copying a large file over sftp over vsock, data size is usually 32kB, and kmalloc seems to fail to try to allocate 32 32kB regions. vhost-5837: page allocation failure: order:4, mode:0x24040c0 Call Trace: [<ffffffffb6a0df64>] dump_stack+0x97/0xdb [<ffffffffb68d6aed>] warn_alloc_failed+0x10f/0x138 [<ffffffffb68d868a>] ? __alloc_pages_direct_compact+0x38/0xc8 [<ffffffffb664619f>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x84c/0x90d [<ffffffffb6646e56>] alloc_kmem_pages+0x17/0x19 [<ffffffffb6653a26>] kmalloc_order_trace+0x2b/0xdb [<ffffffffb66682f3>] __kmalloc+0x177/0x1f7 [<ffffffffb66e0d94>] ? copy_from_iter+0x8d/0x31d [<ffffffffc0689ab7>] vhost_vsock_handle_tx_kick+0x1fa/0x301 [vhost_vsock] [<ffffffffc06828d9>] vhost_worker+0xf7/0x157 [vhost] [<ffffffffb683ddce>] kthread+0xfd/0x105 [<ffffffffc06827e2>] ? vhost_dev_set_owner+0x22e/0x22e [vhost] [<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3 [<ffffffffb6eb332e>] ret_from_fork+0x4e/0x80 [<ffffffffb683dcd1>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0xf3/0xf3 Work around by doing kvmalloc instead.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-09-15 | Published 2025-09-15 | Updated 2025-09-15 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before 0d720c3f0a03e97867deab7e480ba3d3e19837ba
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before 7aac8c63f604e6a6a46560c0f0188cd0332cf320
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before e6d0152c95108651f1880c1ddfab47cb9e3e62d0
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before b4a5905fd2ef841cd61e969ea692c213c2e5c1f7
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before e28a4e7f0296824c61a81e7fd54ab48bad3e75ad
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before a99fc6d818161d6f1ff3307de8bf5237f6cc34d8
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before 36c9f340c60413e28f980c0224c4e9d35851526b
affected

433fc58e6bf2c8bd97e57153ed28e64fd78207b8 (git) before 0e3f72931fc47bb81686020cc643cde5d9cd0bb8
affected

Default status
affected

4.8
affected

Any version before 4.8
unaffected

4.14.296 (semver)
unaffected

4.19.262 (semver)
unaffected

5.4.220 (semver)
unaffected

5.10.150 (semver)
unaffected

5.15.75 (semver)
unaffected

5.19.17 (semver)
unaffected

6.0.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.1 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/0d720c3f0a03e97867deab7e480ba3d3e19837ba

git.kernel.org/...c/7aac8c63f604e6a6a46560c0f0188cd0332cf320

git.kernel.org/...c/e6d0152c95108651f1880c1ddfab47cb9e3e62d0

git.kernel.org/...c/b4a5905fd2ef841cd61e969ea692c213c2e5c1f7

git.kernel.org/...c/e28a4e7f0296824c61a81e7fd54ab48bad3e75ad

git.kernel.org/...c/a99fc6d818161d6f1ff3307de8bf5237f6cc34d8

git.kernel.org/...c/36c9f340c60413e28f980c0224c4e9d35851526b

git.kernel.org/...c/0e3f72931fc47bb81686020cc643cde5d9cd0bb8

cve.org (CVE-2022-50271)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2022-50271)

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