Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.0.17 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: reject invalid reloc tree root keys with stack dump
[BUG]
Syzbot reported a crash that an ASSERT() got triggered inside
prepare_to_merge().
That ASSERT() makes sure the reloc tree is properly pointed back by its
subvolume tree.
[CAUSE]
After more debugging output, it turns out we had an invalid reloc tree:
BTRFS error (device loop1): reloc tree mismatch, root 8 has no reloc root, expect reloc root key (-8, 132, 8) gen 17
Note the above root key is (TREE_RELOC_OBJECTID, ROOT_ITEM,
QUOTA_TREE_OBJECTID), meaning it's a reloc tree for quota tree.
But reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes, as for non-subvolume
trees, we just COW the involved tree block, no need to create a reloc
tree since those tree blocks won't be shared with other trees.
Only subvolumes tree can share tree blocks with other trees (thus they
have BTRFS_ROOT_SHAREABLE flag).
Thus this new debug output proves my previous assumption that corrupted
on-disk data can trigger that ASSERT().
[FIX]
Besides the dedicated fix and the graceful exit, also let tree-checker to
check such root keys, to make sure reloc trees can only exist for subvolumes.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: conntrack: Avoid nf_ct_helper_hash uses after free
If nf_conntrack_init_start() fails (for example due to a
register_nf_conntrack_bpf() failure), the nf_conntrack_helper_fini()
clean-up path frees the nf_ct_helper_hash map.
When built with NF_CONNTRACK=y, further netfilter modules (e.g:
netfilter_conntrack_ftp) can still be loaded and call
nf_conntrack_helpers_register(), independently of whether nf_conntrack
initialized correctly. This accesses the nf_ct_helper_hash dangling
pointer and causes a uaf, possibly leading to random memory corruption.
This patch guards nf_conntrack_helper_register() from accessing a freed
or uninitialized nf_ct_helper_hash pointer and fixes possible
uses-after-free when loading a conntrack module.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: fix soft lockup in status_resync
status_resync() will calculate 'curr_resync - recovery_active' to show
user a progress bar like following:
[============>........] resync = 61.4%
'curr_resync' and 'recovery_active' is updated in md_do_sync(), and
status_resync() can read them concurrently, hence it's possible that
'curr_resync - recovery_active' can overflow to a huge number. In this
case status_resync() will be stuck in the loop to print a large amount
of '=', which will end up soft lockup.
Fix the problem by setting 'resync' to MD_RESYNC_ACTIVE in this case,
this way resync in progress will be reported to user.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: Fix possible data races in gfs2_show_options()
Some fields such as gt_logd_secs of the struct gfs2_tune are accessed
without holding the lock gt_spin in gfs2_show_options():
val = sdp->sd_tune.gt_logd_secs;
if (val != 30)
seq_printf(s, ",commit=%d", val);
And thus can cause data races when gfs2_show_options() and other functions
such as gfs2_reconfigure() are concurrently executed:
spin_lock(>->gt_spin);
gt->gt_logd_secs = newargs->ar_commit;
To fix these possible data races, the lock sdp->sd_tune.gt_spin is
acquired before accessing the fields of gfs2_tune and released after these
accesses.
Further changes by Andreas:
- Don't hold the spin lock over the seq_printf operations.
CVSS Score
7.0
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx'
When generate a synthetic event with many params and then create a trace
action for it [1], kernel panic happened [2].
It is because that in trace_action_create() 'data->n_params' is up to
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX (current value is 64), and array 'data->var_ref_idx'
keeps indices into array 'hist_data->var_refs' for each synthetic event
param, but the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' is TRACING_MAP_VARS_MAX
(current value is 16), so out-of-bound write happened when 'data->n_params'
more than 16. In this case, 'data->match_data.event' is overwritten and
eventually cause the panic.
To solve the issue, adjust the length of 'data->var_ref_idx' to be
SYNTH_FIELDS_MAX and add sanity checks to avoid out-of-bound write.
[1]
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing/
# echo "my_synth_event int v1; int v2; int v3; int v4; int v5; int v6;\
int v7; int v8; int v9; int v10; int v11; int v12; int v13; int v14;\
int v15; int v16; int v17; int v18; int v19; int v20; int v21; int v22;\
int v23; int v24; int v25; int v26; int v27; int v28; int v29; int v30;\
int v31; int v32; int v33; int v34; int v35; int v36; int v37; int v38;\
int v39; int v40; int v41; int v42; int v43; int v44; int v45; int v46;\
int v47; int v48; int v49; int v50; int v51; int v52; int v53; int v54;\
int v55; int v56; int v57; int v58; int v59; int v60; int v61; int v62;\
int v63" >> synthetic_events
# echo 'hist:keys=pid:ts0=common_timestamp.usecs if comm=="bash"' >> \
events/sched/sched_waking/trigger
# echo "hist:keys=next_pid:onmatch(sched.sched_waking).my_synth_event(\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,\
pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid,pid)" >> events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
[2]
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff91c900000000
PGD 61001067 P4D 61001067 PUD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 PID: 322 Comm: bash Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc8+ #229
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:strcmp+0xc/0x30
Code: 75 f7 31 d2 44 0f b6 04 16 44 88 04 11 48 83 c2 01 45 84 c0 75 ee
c3 cc cc cc cc 0f 1f 00 31 c0 eb 08 48 83 c0 01 84 d2 74 13 <0f> b6 14
07 3a 14 06 74 ef 19 c0 83 c8 01 c3 cc cc cc cc 31 c3
RSP: 0018:ffff9b3b00f53c48 EFLAGS: 00000246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffba958a68 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: ffff91c943d33a90 RDI: ffff91c900000000
RBP: ffff91c900000000 R08: 00000018d604b529 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff91c9483eddb1 R11: ffff91ca483eddab R12: ffff91c946171580
R13: ffff91c9479f0538 R14: ffff91c9457c2848 R15: ffff91c9479f0538
FS: 00007f1d1cfbe740(0000) GS:ffff91c9bdc80000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff91c900000000 CR3: 0000000006316000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__find_event_file+0x55/0x90
action_create+0x76c/0x1060
event_hist_trigger_parse+0x146d/0x2060
? event_trigger_write+0x31/0xd0
trigger_process_regex+0xbb/0x110
event_trigger_write+0x6b/0xd0
vfs_write+0xc8/0x3e0
? alloc_fd+0xc0/0x160
? preempt_count_add+0x4d/0xa0
? preempt_count_add+0x70/0xa0
ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x7f1d1d0cf077
Code: 64 89 02 48 c7 c0 ff ff ff ff eb bb 0f 1f 80 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e
fa 64 8b 04 25 18 00 00 00 85 c0 75 10 b8 01 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00
f0 ff ff 77 51 c3 48 83 ec 28 48 89 54 24 18 48 89 74
RSP: 002b:00007ffcebb0e568 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000143 RCX: 00007f1d1d0cf077
RDX: 0000000000000143 RSI: 00005639265aa7e0 RDI: 0000000000000001
RBP: 00005639265aa7e0 R08: 000000000000000a R09: 0000000000000142
R
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix uninititialized value in 'ext4_evict_inode'
Syzbot found the following issue:
=====================================================
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ext4_evict_inode+0xdd/0x26b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:180
ext4_evict_inode+0xdd/0x26b0 fs/ext4/inode.c:180
evict+0x365/0x9a0 fs/inode.c:664
iput_final fs/inode.c:1747 [inline]
iput+0x985/0xdd0 fs/inode.c:1773
__ext4_new_inode+0xe54/0x7ec0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:1361
ext4_mknod+0x376/0x840 fs/ext4/namei.c:2844
vfs_mknod+0x79d/0x830 fs/namei.c:3914
do_mknodat+0x47d/0xaa0
__do_sys_mknodat fs/namei.c:3992 [inline]
__se_sys_mknodat fs/namei.c:3989 [inline]
__ia32_sys_mknodat+0xeb/0x150 fs/namei.c:3989
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
Uninit was created at:
__alloc_pages+0x9f1/0xe80 mm/page_alloc.c:5578
alloc_pages+0xaae/0xd80 mm/mempolicy.c:2285
alloc_slab_page mm/slub.c:1794 [inline]
allocate_slab+0x1b5/0x1010 mm/slub.c:1939
new_slab mm/slub.c:1992 [inline]
___slab_alloc+0x10c3/0x2d60 mm/slub.c:3180
__slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3279 [inline]
slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3364 [inline]
slab_alloc mm/slub.c:3406 [inline]
__kmem_cache_alloc_lru mm/slub.c:3413 [inline]
kmem_cache_alloc_lru+0x6f3/0xb30 mm/slub.c:3429
alloc_inode_sb include/linux/fs.h:3117 [inline]
ext4_alloc_inode+0x5f/0x860 fs/ext4/super.c:1321
alloc_inode+0x83/0x440 fs/inode.c:259
new_inode_pseudo fs/inode.c:1018 [inline]
new_inode+0x3b/0x430 fs/inode.c:1046
__ext4_new_inode+0x2a7/0x7ec0 fs/ext4/ialloc.c:959
ext4_mkdir+0x4d5/0x1560 fs/ext4/namei.c:2992
vfs_mkdir+0x62a/0x870 fs/namei.c:4035
do_mkdirat+0x466/0x7b0 fs/namei.c:4060
__do_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4075 [inline]
__se_sys_mkdirat fs/namei.c:4073 [inline]
__ia32_sys_mkdirat+0xc4/0x120 fs/namei.c:4073
do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/common.c:112 [inline]
__do_fast_syscall_32+0xa2/0x100 arch/x86/entry/common.c:178
do_fast_syscall_32+0x33/0x70 arch/x86/entry/common.c:203
do_SYSENTER_32+0x1b/0x20 arch/x86/entry/common.c:246
entry_SYSENTER_compat_after_hwframe+0x70/0x82
CPU: 1 PID: 4625 Comm: syz-executor.2 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-syzkaller-62821-gcb231e2f67ec #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/26/2022
=====================================================
Now, 'ext4_alloc_inode()' didn't init 'ei->i_flags'. If new inode failed
before set 'ei->i_flags' in '__ext4_new_inode()', then do 'iput()'. As after
6bc0d63dad7f commit will access 'ei->i_flags' in 'ext4_evict_inode()' which
will lead to access uninit-value.
To solve above issue just init 'ei->i_flags' in 'ext4_alloc_inode()'.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm thin: Fix ABBA deadlock between shrink_slab and dm_pool_abort_metadata
Following concurrent processes:
P1(drop cache) P2(kworker)
drop_caches_sysctl_handler
drop_slab
shrink_slab
down_read(&shrinker_rwsem) - LOCK A
do_shrink_slab
super_cache_scan
prune_icache_sb
dispose_list
evict
ext4_evict_inode
ext4_clear_inode
ext4_discard_preallocations
ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp
ext4_mb_init_cache
ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait
ext4_read_bh_nowait
submit_bh
dm_submit_bio
do_worker
process_deferred_bios
commit
metadata_operation_failed
dm_pool_abort_metadata
down_write(&pmd->root_lock) - LOCK B
__destroy_persistent_data_objects
dm_block_manager_destroy
dm_bufio_client_destroy
unregister_shrinker
down_write(&shrinker_rwsem)
thin_map |
dm_thin_find_block ↓
down_read(&pmd->root_lock) --> ABBA deadlock
, which triggers hung task:
[ 76.974820] INFO: task kworker/u4:3:63 blocked for more than 15 seconds.
[ 76.976019] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-00011-g8f17dd350364-dirty #910
[ 76.978521] task:kworker/u4:3 state:D stack:0 pid:63 ppid:2
[ 76.978534] Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker
[ 76.978552] Call Trace:
[ 76.978564] __schedule+0x6ba/0x10f0
[ 76.978582] schedule+0x9d/0x1e0
[ 76.978588] rwsem_down_write_slowpath+0x587/0xdf0
[ 76.978600] down_write+0xec/0x110
[ 76.978607] unregister_shrinker+0x2c/0xf0
[ 76.978616] dm_bufio_client_destroy+0x116/0x3d0
[ 76.978625] dm_block_manager_destroy+0x19/0x40
[ 76.978629] __destroy_persistent_data_objects+0x5e/0x70
[ 76.978636] dm_pool_abort_metadata+0x8e/0x100
[ 76.978643] metadata_operation_failed+0x86/0x110
[ 76.978649] commit+0x6a/0x230
[ 76.978655] do_worker+0xc6e/0xd90
[ 76.978702] process_one_work+0x269/0x630
[ 76.978714] worker_thread+0x266/0x630
[ 76.978730] kthread+0x151/0x1b0
[ 76.978772] INFO: task test.sh:2646 blocked for more than 15 seconds.
[ 76.979756] Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4-00011-g8f17dd350364-dirty #910
[ 76.982111] task:test.sh state:D stack:0 pid:2646 ppid:2459
[ 76.982128] Call Trace:
[ 76.982139] __schedule+0x6ba/0x10f0
[ 76.982155] schedule+0x9d/0x1e0
[ 76.982159] rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0x4f4/0x910
[ 76.982173] down_read+0x84/0x170
[ 76.982177] dm_thin_find_block+0x4c/0xd0
[ 76.982183] thin_map+0x201/0x3d0
[ 76.982188] __map_bio+0x5b/0x350
[ 76.982195] dm_submit_bio+0x2b6/0x930
[ 76.982202] __submit_bio+0x123/0x2d0
[ 76.982209] submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x101/0x3e0
[ 76.982222] submit_bio_noacct+0x389/0x770
[ 76.982227] submit_bio+0x50/0xc0
[ 76.982232] submit_bh_wbc+0x15e/0x230
[ 76.982238] submit_bh+0x14/0x20
[ 76.982241] ext4_read_bh_nowait+0xc5/0x130
[ 76.982247] ext4_read_block_bitmap_nowait+0x340/0xc60
[ 76.982254] ext4_mb_init_cache+0x1ce/0xdc0
[ 76.982259] ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp+0x987/0xfa0
[ 76.982263] ext4_discard_preallocations+0x45d/0x830
[ 76.982274] ext4_clear_inode+0x48/0xf0
[ 76.982280] ext4_evict_inode+0xcf/0xc70
[ 76.982285] evict+0x119/0x2b0
[ 76.982290] dispose_list+0x43/0xa0
[ 76.982294] prune_icache_sb+0x64/0x90
[ 76.982298] super_cache_scan+0x155/0x210
[ 76.982303] do_shrink_slab+0x19e/0x4e0
[ 76.982310] shrink_slab+0x2bd/0x450
[ 76.982317] drop_slab+0xcc/0x1a0
[ 76.982323] drop_caches_sysctl_handler+0xb7/0xe0
[ 76.982327] proc_sys_call_handler+0x1bc/0x300
[ 76.982331] proc_sys_write+0x17/0x20
[ 76.982334] vfs_write+0x3d3/0x570
[ 76.982342] ksys_write+0x73/0x160
[ 76.982347] __x64_sys_write+0x1e/0x30
[ 76.982352] do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
[ 76.982357] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
Funct
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ARM: OMAP2+: omap4-common: Fix refcount leak bug
In omap4_sram_init(), of_find_compatible_node() will return a node
pointer with refcount incremented. We should use of_node_put() when
it is not used anymore.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm thin: Use last transaction's pmd->root when commit failed
Recently we found a softlock up problem in dm thin pool btree lookup
code due to corrupted metadata:
Kernel panic - not syncing: softlockup: hung tasks
CPU: 7 PID: 2669225 Comm: kworker/u16:3
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Workqueue: dm-thin do_worker [dm_thin_pool]
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack+0x9c/0xd3
panic+0x35d/0x6b9
watchdog_timer_fn.cold+0x16/0x25
__run_hrtimer+0xa2/0x2d0
</IRQ>
RIP: 0010:__relink_lru+0x102/0x220 [dm_bufio]
__bufio_new+0x11f/0x4f0 [dm_bufio]
new_read+0xa3/0x1e0 [dm_bufio]
dm_bm_read_lock+0x33/0xd0 [dm_persistent_data]
ro_step+0x63/0x100 [dm_persistent_data]
btree_lookup_raw.constprop.0+0x44/0x220 [dm_persistent_data]
dm_btree_lookup+0x16f/0x210 [dm_persistent_data]
dm_thin_find_block+0x12c/0x210 [dm_thin_pool]
__process_bio_read_only+0xc5/0x400 [dm_thin_pool]
process_thin_deferred_bios+0x1a4/0x4a0 [dm_thin_pool]
process_one_work+0x3c5/0x730
Following process may generate a broken btree mixed with fresh and
stale btree nodes, which could get dm thin trapped in an infinite loop
while looking up data block:
Transaction 1: pmd->root = A, A->B->C // One path in btree
pmd->root = X, X->Y->Z // Copy-up
Transaction 2: X,Z is updated on disk, Y write failed.
// Commit failed, dm thin becomes read-only.
process_bio_read_only
dm_thin_find_block
__find_block
dm_btree_lookup(pmd->root)
The pmd->root points to a broken btree, Y may contain stale node
pointing to any block, for example X, which gets dm thin trapped into
a dead loop while looking up Z.
Fix this by setting pmd->root in __open_metadata(), so that dm thin
will use the last transaction's pmd->root if commit failed.
Fetch a reproducer in [Link].
Linke: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=216790
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amd/display: Fix potential null-deref in dm_resume
[Why]
Fixing smatch error:
dm_resume() error: we previously assumed 'aconnector->dc_link' could be null
[How]
Check if dc_link null at the beginning of the loop,
so further checks can be dropped.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-07