{"id":73448,"date":"2025-11-12T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40174-x86-mm-fix-smp-ordering-in-switch_mm_irqs_off\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T14:45:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T11:15:47","slug":"cve-2025-40174-x86-mm-fix-smp-ordering-in-switch_mm_irqs_off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-40174-x86-mm-fix-smp-ordering-in-switch_mm_irqs_off\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-40174 &#8211; x86\/mm: Fix SMP ordering in switch_mm_irqs_off()"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40174<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Nov. 12, 2025, 11:15 a.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<\/p>\n<p>x86\/mm: Fix SMP ordering in switch_mm_irqs_off()<\/p>\n<p>Stephen noted that it is possible to not have an smp_mb() between<br \/>\nthe loaded_mm store and the tlb_gen load in switch_mm(), meaning the<br \/>\nordering against flush_tlb_mm_range() goes out the window, and it<br \/>\nbecomes possible for switch_mm() to not observe a recent tlb_gen<br \/>\nupdate and fail to flush the TLBs.<\/p>\n[ dhansen: merge conflict fixed by Ingo ]\n<p>Severity: 0.0 | NA<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-40174 Published : Nov. 12, 2025, 11:15 a.m. | 16\u00a0minutes ago Description : In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86\/mm: Fix SMP ordering in switch_mm_irqs_off() Stephen noted that it is possible to not have an smp_mb() between the loaded_mm store and the tlb_gen load in switch_mm(), meaning the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}