Security Vulnerabilities
- CVEs Published In April 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: Clear affinity hint before calling ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in error path
If a shared IRQ is used by the driver due to platform limitation, then the
IRQ affinity hint is set right after the allocation of IRQ vectors in
ath11k_pci_alloc_msi(). This does no harm unless one of the functions
requesting the IRQ fails and attempt to free the IRQ. This results in the
below warning:
WARNING: CPU: 7 PID: 349 at kernel/irq/manage.c:1929 free_irq+0x278/0x29c
Call trace:
free_irq+0x278/0x29c
ath11k_pcic_free_irq+0x70/0x10c [ath11k]
ath11k_pci_probe+0x800/0x820 [ath11k_pci]
local_pci_probe+0x40/0xbc
The warning is due to not clearing the affinity hint before freeing the
IRQs.
So to fix this issue, clear the IRQ affinity hint before calling
ath11k_pcic_free_irq() in the error path. The affinity will be cleared once
again further down the error path due to code organization, but that does
no harm.
Tested-on: QCA6390 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HST.1.0.1-05266-QCAHSTSWPLZ_V2_TO_X86-1
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to avoid panic once fallocation fails for pinfile
syzbot reports a f2fs bug as below:
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kernel BUG at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2746!
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5323 Comm: syz.0.0 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc2-syzkaller-00018-g7cb1b4663150 #0
RIP: 0010:get_new_segment fs/f2fs/segment.c:2746 [inline]
RIP: 0010:new_curseg+0x1f52/0x1f70 fs/f2fs/segment.c:2876
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__allocate_new_segment+0x1ce/0x940 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3210
f2fs_allocate_new_section fs/f2fs/segment.c:3224 [inline]
f2fs_allocate_pinning_section+0xfa/0x4e0 fs/f2fs/segment.c:3238
f2fs_expand_inode_data+0x696/0xca0 fs/f2fs/file.c:1830
f2fs_fallocate+0x537/0xa10 fs/f2fs/file.c:1940
vfs_fallocate+0x569/0x6e0 fs/open.c:327
do_vfs_ioctl+0x258c/0x2e40 fs/ioctl.c:885
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:904 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl+0x80/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Concurrent pinfile allocation may run out of free section, result in
panic in get_new_segment(), let's expand pin_sem lock coverage to
include f2fs_gc(), so that we can make sure to reclaim enough free
space for following allocation.
In addition, do below changes to enhance error path handling:
- call f2fs_bug_on() only in non-pinfile allocation path in
get_new_segment().
- call reset_curseg_fields() to reset all fields of curseg in
new_curseg()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dlm: prevent NPD when writing a positive value to event_done
do_uevent returns the value written to event_done. In case it is a
positive value, new_lockspace would undo all the work, and lockspace
would not be set. __dlm_new_lockspace, however, would treat that
positive value as a success due to commit 8511a2728ab8 ("dlm: fix use
count with multiple joins").
Down the line, device_create_lockspace would pass that NULL lockspace to
dlm_find_lockspace_local, leading to a NULL pointer dereference.
Treating such positive values as successes prevents the problem. Given
this has been broken for so long, this is unlikely to break userspace
expectations.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: quota: fix to avoid warning in dquot_writeback_dquots()
F2FS-fs (dm-59): checkpoint=enable has some unwritten data.
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WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 8013 at fs/quota/dquot.c:691 dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
pc : dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
lr : f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
Call trace:
dquot_writeback_dquots+0x2fc/0x308
f2fs_quota_sync+0xcc/0x1c4
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x3d4/0x9b0
f2fs_issue_checkpoint+0x1bc/0x2c0
f2fs_sync_fs+0x54/0x150
f2fs_do_sync_file+0x2f8/0x814
__f2fs_ioctl+0x1960/0x3244
f2fs_ioctl+0x54/0xe0
__arm64_sys_ioctl+0xa8/0xe4
invoke_syscall+0x58/0x114
checkpoint and f2fs_remount may race as below, resulting triggering warning
in dquot_writeback_dquots().
atomic write remount
- do_remount
- down_write(&sb->s_umount);
- f2fs_remount
- ioctl
- f2fs_do_sync_file
- f2fs_sync_fs
- f2fs_write_checkpoint
- block_operations
- locked = down_read_trylock(&sbi->sb->s_umount)
: fail to lock due to the write lock was held by remount
- up_write(&sb->s_umount);
- f2fs_quota_sync
- dquot_writeback_dquots
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!rwsem_is_locked(&sb->s_umount))
: trigger warning because s_umount lock was unlocked by remount
If checkpoint comes from mount/umount/remount/freeze/quotactl, caller of
checkpoint has already held s_umount lock, calling dquot_writeback_dquots()
in the context should be safe.
So let's record task to sbi->umount_lock_holder, so that checkpoint can
know whether the lock has held in the context or not by checking current
w/ it.
In addition, in order to not misrepresent caller of checkpoint, we should
not allow to trigger async checkpoint for those callers: mount/umount/remount/
freeze/quotactl.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: ath11k: update channel list in reg notifier instead reg worker
Currently when ath11k gets a new channel list, it will be processed
according to the following steps:
1. update new channel list to cfg80211 and queue reg_work.
2. cfg80211 handles new channel list during reg_work.
3. update cfg80211's handled channel list to firmware by
ath11k_reg_update_chan_list().
But ath11k will immediately execute step 3 after reg_work is just
queued. Since step 2 is asynchronous, cfg80211 may not have completed
handling the new channel list, which may leading to an out-of-bounds
write error:
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in ath11k_reg_update_chan_list
Call Trace:
ath11k_reg_update_chan_list+0xbfe/0xfe0 [ath11k]
kfree+0x109/0x3a0
ath11k_regd_update+0x1cf/0x350 [ath11k]
ath11k_regd_update_work+0x14/0x20 [ath11k]
process_one_work+0xe35/0x14c0
Should ensure step 2 is completely done before executing step 3. Thus
Wen raised patch[1]. When flag NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER is set,
cfg80211 will notify ath11k after step 2 is done.
So enable the flag NL80211_REGDOM_SET_BY_DRIVER then cfg80211 will
notify ath11k after step 2 is done. At this time, there will be no
KASAN bug during the execution of the step 3.
[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230201065313.27203-1-quic_wgong@quicinc.com/
Tested-on: WCN6855 hw2.0 PCI WLAN.HSP.1.1-03125-QCAHSPSWPL_V1_V2_SILICONZ_LITE-3
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: timer: Don't take register_mutex with copy_from/to_user()
The infamous mmap_lock taken in copy_from/to_user() can be often
problematic when it's called inside another mutex, as they might lead
to deadlocks.
In the case of ALSA timer code, the bad pattern is with
guard(mutex)(®ister_mutex) that covers copy_from/to_user() -- which
was mistakenly introduced at converting to guard(), and it had been
carefully worked around in the past.
This patch fixes those pieces simply by moving copy_from/to_user() out
of the register mutex lock again.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RISC-V: KVM: Teardown riscv specific bits after kvm_exit
During a module removal, kvm_exit invokes arch specific disable
call which disables AIA. However, we invoke aia_exit before kvm_exit
resulting in the following warning. KVM kernel module can't be inserted
afterwards due to inconsistent state of IRQ.
[25469.031389] percpu IRQ 31 still enabled on CPU0!
[25469.031732] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 943 at kernel/irq/manage.c:2476 __free_percpu_irq+0xa2/0x150
[25469.031804] Modules linked in: kvm(-)
[25469.031848] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 943 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5-06947-g91c763118f47-dirty #2
[25469.031905] Hardware name: riscv-virtio,qemu (DT)
[25469.031928] epc : __free_percpu_irq+0xa2/0x150
[25469.031976] ra : __free_percpu_irq+0xa2/0x150
[25469.032197] epc : ffffffff8007db1e ra : ffffffff8007db1e sp : ff2000000088bd50
[25469.032241] gp : ffffffff8131cef8 tp : ff60000080b96400 t0 : ff2000000088baf8
[25469.032285] t1 : fffffffffffffffc t2 : 5249207570637265 s0 : ff2000000088bd90
[25469.032329] s1 : ff60000098b21080 a0 : 037d527a15eb4f00 a1 : 037d527a15eb4f00
[25469.032372] a2 : 0000000000000023 a3 : 0000000000000001 a4 : ffffffff8122dbf8
[25469.032410] a5 : 0000000000000fff a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : ffffffff8122dc10
[25469.032448] s2 : ff60000080c22eb0 s3 : 0000000200000022 s4 : 000000000000001f
[25469.032488] s5 : ff60000080c22e00 s6 : ffffffff80c351c0 s7 : 0000000000000000
[25469.032582] s8 : 0000000000000003 s9 : 000055556b7fb490 s10: 00007ffff0e12fa0
[25469.032621] s11: 00007ffff0e13e9a t3 : ffffffff81354ac7 t4 : ffffffff81354ac7
[25469.032664] t5 : ffffffff81354ac8 t6 : ffffffff81354ac7
[25469.032698] status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: ffffffff8007db1e cause: 0000000000000003
[25469.032738] [<ffffffff8007db1e>] __free_percpu_irq+0xa2/0x150
[25469.032797] [<ffffffff8007dbfc>] free_percpu_irq+0x30/0x5e
[25469.032856] [<ffffffff013a57dc>] kvm_riscv_aia_exit+0x40/0x42 [kvm]
[25469.033947] [<ffffffff013b4e82>] cleanup_module+0x10/0x32 [kvm]
[25469.035300] [<ffffffff8009b150>] __riscv_sys_delete_module+0x18e/0x1fc
[25469.035374] [<ffffffff8000c1ca>] syscall_handler+0x3a/0x46
[25469.035456] [<ffffffff809ec9a4>] do_trap_ecall_u+0x72/0x134
[25469.035536] [<ffffffff809f5e18>] handle_exception+0x148/0x156
Invoke aia_exit and other arch specific cleanup functions after kvm_exit
so that disable gets a chance to be called first before exit.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal: int340x: Add NULL check for adev
Not all devices have an ACPI companion fwnode, so adev might be NULL.
This is similar to the commit cd2fd6eab480
("platform/x86: int3472: Check for adev == NULL").
Add a check for adev not being set and return -ENODEV in that case to
avoid a possible NULL pointer deref in int3402_thermal_probe().
Note, under the same directory, int3400_thermal_probe() has such a
check.
[ rjw: Subject edit, added Fixes: ]
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ice: validate queue quanta parameters to prevent OOB access
Add queue wraparound prevention in quanta configuration.
Ensure end_qid does not overflow by validating start_qid and num_queues.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: init wiphy_work before allocating rfkill fails
syzbort reported a uninitialize wiphy_work_lock in cfg80211_dev_free. [1]
After rfkill allocation fails, the wiphy release process will be performed,
which will cause cfg80211_dev_free to access the uninitialized wiphy_work
related data.
Move the initialization of wiphy_work to before rfkill initialization to
avoid this issue.
[1]
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
you didn't initialize this object before use?
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 5935 Comm: syz-executor550 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc6-syzkaller-00103-g4003c9e78778 #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
assign_lock_key kernel/locking/lockdep.c:983 [inline]
register_lock_class+0xc39/0x1240 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:1297
__lock_acquire+0x135/0x3c40 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5103
lock_acquire.part.0+0x11b/0x380 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5851
__raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:110 [inline]
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x60 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:162
cfg80211_dev_free+0x30/0x3d0 net/wireless/core.c:1196
device_release+0xa1/0x240 drivers/base/core.c:2568
kobject_cleanup lib/kobject.c:689 [inline]
kobject_release lib/kobject.c:720 [inline]
kref_put include/linux/kref.h:65 [inline]
kobject_put+0x1e4/0x5a0 lib/kobject.c:737
put_device+0x1f/0x30 drivers/base/core.c:3774
wiphy_free net/wireless/core.c:1224 [inline]
wiphy_new_nm+0x1c1f/0x2160 net/wireless/core.c:562
ieee80211_alloc_hw_nm+0x1b7a/0x2260 net/mac80211/main.c:835
mac80211_hwsim_new_radio+0x1d6/0x54e0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:5185
hwsim_new_radio_nl+0xb42/0x12b0 drivers/net/wireless/virtual/mac80211_hwsim.c:6242
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x202/0x2f0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1115
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1195 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x565/0x800 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1210
netlink_rcv_skb+0x16b/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2533
genl_rcv+0x28/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1219
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1312 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x53c/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1338
netlink_sendmsg+0x8b8/0xd70 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1882
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:718 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:733 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xaaf/0xc90 net/socket.c:2573
___sys_sendmsg+0x135/0x1e0 net/socket.c:2627
__sys_sendmsg+0x16e/0x220 net/socket.c:2659
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
Close: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=aaf0488c83d1d5f4f029