Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In March 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
clk: mmp: pxa1908-mpmu: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
The devm_kzalloc() function returns NULL on error, not error pointers.
Update the check to match.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
OPP: fix dev_pm_opp_find_bw_*() when bandwidth table not initialized
If a driver calls dev_pm_opp_find_bw_ceil/floor() the retrieve bandwidth
from the OPP table but the bandwidth table was not created because the
interconnect properties were missing in the OPP consumer node, the
kernel will crash with:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000004
...
pc : _read_bw+0x8/0x10
lr : _opp_table_find_key+0x9c/0x174
...
Call trace:
_read_bw+0x8/0x10 (P)
_opp_table_find_key+0x9c/0x174 (L)
_find_key+0x98/0x168
dev_pm_opp_find_bw_ceil+0x50/0x88
...
In order to fix the crash, create an assert function to check
if the bandwidth table was created before trying to get a
bandwidth with _read_bw().
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: pcf85063: fix potential OOB write in PCF85063 NVMEM read
The nvmem interface supports variable buffer sizes, while the regmap
interface operates with fixed-size storage. If an nvmem client uses a
buffer size less than 4 bytes, regmap_read will write out of bounds
as it expects the buffer to point at an unsigned int.
Fix this by using an intermediary unsigned int to hold the value.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: bpf_local_storage: Always use bpf_mem_alloc in PREEMPT_RT
In PREEMPT_RT, kmalloc(GFP_ATOMIC) is still not safe in non preemptible
context. bpf_mem_alloc must be used in PREEMPT_RT. This patch is
to enforce bpf_mem_alloc in the bpf_local_storage when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
is enabled.
[ 35.118559] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
[ 35.118566] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1832, name: test_progs
[ 35.118569] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
[ 35.118571] RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 1
[ 35.118577] INFO: lockdep is turned off.
...
[ 35.118647] __might_resched+0x433/0x5b0
[ 35.118677] rt_spin_lock+0xc3/0x290
[ 35.118700] ___slab_alloc+0x72/0xc40
[ 35.118723] __kmalloc_noprof+0x13f/0x4e0
[ 35.118732] bpf_map_kzalloc+0xe5/0x220
[ 35.118740] bpf_selem_alloc+0x1d2/0x7b0
[ 35.118755] bpf_local_storage_update+0x2fa/0x8b0
[ 35.118784] bpf_sk_storage_get_tracing+0x15a/0x1d0
[ 35.118791] bpf_prog_9a118d86fca78ebb_trace_inet_sock_set_state+0x44/0x66
[ 35.118795] bpf_trace_run3+0x222/0x400
[ 35.118820] __bpf_trace_inet_sock_set_state+0x11/0x20
[ 35.118824] trace_inet_sock_set_state+0x112/0x130
[ 35.118830] inet_sk_state_store+0x41/0x90
[ 35.118836] tcp_set_state+0x3b3/0x640
There is no need to adjust the gfp_flags passing to the
bpf_mem_cache_alloc_flags() which only honors the GFP_KERNEL.
The verifier has ensured GFP_KERNEL is passed only in sleepable context.
It has been an old issue since the first introduction of the
bpf_local_storage ~5 years ago, so this patch targets the bpf-next.
bpf_mem_alloc is needed to solve it, so the Fixes tag is set
to the commit when bpf_mem_alloc was first used in the bpf_local_storage.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
team: prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower
Prevent adding a device which is already a team device lower,
e.g. adding veth0 if vlan1 was already added and veth0 is a lower of
vlan1.
This is not useful in practice and can lead to recursive locking:
$ ip link add veth0 type veth peer name veth1
$ ip link set veth0 up
$ ip link set veth1 up
$ ip link add link veth0 name veth0.1 type vlan protocol 802.1Q id 1
$ ip link add team0 type team
$ ip link set veth0.1 down
$ ip link set veth0.1 master team0
team0: Port device veth0.1 added
$ ip link set veth0 down
$ ip link set veth0 master team0
============================================
WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46 Not tainted
--------------------------------------------
ip/7684 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
but task is already holding lock:
ffff888016848e00 (team->team_lock_key){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1147 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977)
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(team->team_lock_key);
lock(team->team_lock_key);
*** DEADLOCK ***
May be due to missing lock nesting notation
2 locks held by ip/7684:
stack backtrace:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 7684 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-virtme-00441-ga14a429069bb #46
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
print_deadlock_bug.cold (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3040)
__lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3893 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5226)
? netlink_broadcast_filtered (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1548)
lock_acquire.part.0 (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:467 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? trace_lock_acquire (./include/trace/events/lock.h:24 (discriminator 2))
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5822)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
__mutex_lock (kernel/locking/mutex.c:587 kernel/locking/mutex.c:735)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
? fib_sync_up (net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c:2167)
? team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
team_device_event (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2928 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2951 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:2973)
notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85)
call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996)
__dev_notify_flags (net/core/dev.c:8993)
? __dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:8975)
dev_change_flags (net/core/dev.c:9027)
vlan_device_event (net/8021q/vlan.c:85 net/8021q/vlan.c:470)
? br_device_event (net/bridge/br.c:143)
notifier_call_chain (kernel/notifier.c:85)
call_netdevice_notifiers_info (net/core/dev.c:1996)
dev_open (net/core/dev.c:1519 net/core/dev.c:1505)
team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1219 drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1977)
? __pfx_team_add_slave (drivers/net/team/team_core.c:1972)
do_set_master (net/core/rtnetlink.c:2917)
do_setlink.isra.0 (net/core/rtnetlink.c:3117)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: rtlwifi: remove unused check_buddy_priv
Commit 2461c7d60f9f ("rtlwifi: Update header file") introduced a global
list of private data structures.
Later on, commit 26634c4b1868 ("rtlwifi Modify existing bits to match
vendor version 2013.02.07") started adding the private data to that list at
probe time and added a hook, check_buddy_priv to find the private data from
a similar device.
However, that function was never used.
Besides, though there is a lock for that list, it is never used. And when
the probe fails, the private data is never removed from the list. This
would cause a second probe to access freed memory.
Remove the unused hook, structures and members, which will prevent the
potential race condition on the list and its corruption during a second
probe when probe fails.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm/dpu: check dpu_plane_atomic_print_state() for valid sspp
Similar to the r_pipe sspp protect, add a check to protect
the pipe state prints to avoid NULL ptr dereference for cases when
the state is dumped without a corresponding atomic_check() where the
pipe->sspp is assigned.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/628404/
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915: Grab intel_display from the encoder to avoid potential oopsies
Grab the intel_display from 'encoder' rather than 'state'
in the encoder hooks to avoid the massive footgun that is
intel_sanitize_encoder(), which passes NULL as the 'state'
argument to encoder .disable() and .post_disable().
TODO: figure out how to actually fix intel_sanitize_encoder()...
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: skip dumping tnc tree when zroot is null
Clearing slab cache will free all znode in memory and make
c->zroot.znode = NULL, then dumping tnc tree will access
c->zroot.znode which cause null pointer dereference.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
media: uvcvideo: Fix deadlock during uvc_probe
If uvc_probe() fails, it can end up calling uvc_status_unregister() before
uvc_status_init() is called.
Fix this by checking if dev->status is NULL or not in
uvc_status_unregister().