CVE-2025-68321 — page_pool: always add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: always add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations Driver authors often forget to add GFP_NOWARN for p…
Published: 2025-12-16 · CVSS: 7.5 · CVSS 3.1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: page_pool: always add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations Driver authors often forget to add GFP_NOWARN for page allocation from the datapath. This is annoying to users as OOMs are a fact of life, and we pretty much expect network Rx to hit page allocation failures during OOM. Make page pool add GFP_NOWARN for ATOMIC allocations by default.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7