Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.150 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: xilinx_can: xcan_write_frame(): fix use-after-free of transmitted SKB
can_put_echo_skb() takes ownership of the SKB and it may be freed
during or after the call.
However, xilinx_can xcan_write_frame() keeps using SKB after the call.
Fix that by only calling can_put_echo_skb() after the code is done
touching the SKB.
The tx_lock is held for the entire xcan_write_frame() execution and
also on the can_get_echo_skb() side so the order of operations does not
matter.
An earlier fix commit 3d3c817c3a40 ("can: xilinx_can: Fix usage of skb
memory") did not move the can_put_echo_skb() call far enough.
[mkl: add "commit" in front of sha1 in patch description]
[mkl: fix indention]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-23
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: brcmfmac: fix use-after-free when rescheduling brcmf_btcoex_info work
The brcmf_btcoex_detach() only shuts down the btcoex timer, if the
flag timer_on is false. However, the brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc(), which
runs as timer handler, sets timer_on to false. This creates critical
race conditions:
1.If brcmf_btcoex_detach() is called while brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc()
is executing, it may observe timer_on as false and skip the call to
timer_shutdown_sync().
2.The brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc() may then reschedule the brcmf_btcoex_info
worker after the cancel_work_sync() has been executed, resulting in
use-after-free bugs.
The use-after-free bugs occur in two distinct scenarios, depending on
the timing of when the brcmf_btcoex_info struct is freed relative to
the execution of its worker thread.
Scenario 1: Freed before the worker is scheduled
The brcmf_btcoex_info is deallocated before the worker is scheduled.
A race condition can occur when schedule_work(&bt_local->work) is
called after the target memory has been freed. The sequence of events
is detailed below:
CPU0 | CPU1
brcmf_btcoex_detach | brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc
| bt_local->timer_on = false;
if (cfg->btcoex->timer_on) |
... |
cancel_work_sync(); |
... |
kfree(cfg->btcoex); // FREE |
| schedule_work(&bt_local->work); // USE
Scenario 2: Freed after the worker is scheduled
The brcmf_btcoex_info is freed after the worker has been scheduled
but before or during its execution. In this case, statements within
the brcmf_btcoex_handler() — such as the container_of macro and
subsequent dereferences of the brcmf_btcoex_info object will cause
a use-after-free access. The following timeline illustrates this
scenario:
CPU0 | CPU1
brcmf_btcoex_detach | brcmf_btcoex_timerfunc
| bt_local->timer_on = false;
if (cfg->btcoex->timer_on) |
... |
cancel_work_sync(); |
... | schedule_work(); // Reschedule
|
kfree(cfg->btcoex); // FREE | brcmf_btcoex_handler() // Worker
/* | btci = container_of(....); // USE
The kfree() above could | ...
also occur at any point | btci-> // USE
during the worker's execution|
*/ |
To resolve the race conditions, drop the conditional check and call
timer_shutdown_sync() directly. It can deactivate the timer reliably,
regardless of its current state. Once stopped, the timer_on state is
then set to false.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: fix use-after-free in cmp_bss()
Following bss_free() quirk introduced in commit 776b3580178f
("cfg80211: track hidden SSID networks properly"), adjust
cfg80211_update_known_bss() to free the last beacon frame
elements only if they're not shared via the corresponding
'hidden_beacon_bss' pointer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tee: fix NULL pointer dereference in tee_shm_put
tee_shm_put have NULL pointer dereference:
__optee_disable_shm_cache -->
shm = reg_pair_to_ptr(...);//shm maybe return NULL
tee_shm_free(shm); -->
tee_shm_put(shm);//crash
Add check in tee_shm_put to fix it.
panic log:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000000000100cca
Mem abort info:
ESR = 0x0000000096000004
EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
SET = 0, FnV = 0
EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
Data abort info:
ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000004, ISS2 = 0x00000000
CM = 0, WnR = 0, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=0000002049d07000
[0000000000100cca] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 0000000096000004 [#1] SMP
CPU: 2 PID: 14442 Comm: systemd-sleep Tainted: P OE ------- ----
6.6.0-39-generic #38
Source Version: 938b255f6cb8817c95b0dd5c8c2944acfce94b07
Hardware name: greatwall GW-001Y1A-FTH, BIOS Great Wall BIOS V3.0
10/26/2022
pstate: 80000005 (Nzcv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : tee_shm_put+0x24/0x188
lr : tee_shm_free+0x14/0x28
sp : ffff001f98f9faf0
x29: ffff001f98f9faf0 x28: ffff0020df543cc0 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: ffff001f811344a0 x25: ffff8000818dac00 x24: ffff800082d8d048
x23: ffff001f850fcd18 x22: 0000000000000001 x21: ffff001f98f9fb88
x20: ffff001f83e76218 x19: ffff001f83e761e0 x18: 000000000000ffff
x17: 303a30303a303030 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000003
x14: 0000000000000001 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0101010101010101
x11: 0000000000000001 x10: 0000000000000001 x9 : ffff800080e08d0c
x8 : ffff001f98f9fb88 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffff001f83e761e0 x1 : 00000000ffff001f x0 : 0000000000100cca
Call trace:
tee_shm_put+0x24/0x188
tee_shm_free+0x14/0x28
__optee_disable_shm_cache+0xa8/0x108
optee_shutdown+0x28/0x38
platform_shutdown+0x28/0x40
device_shutdown+0x144/0x2b0
kernel_power_off+0x3c/0x80
hibernate+0x35c/0x388
state_store+0x64/0x80
kobj_attr_store+0x14/0x28
sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x128/0x1c0
vfs_write+0x270/0x370
ksys_write+0x6c/0x100
__arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x30
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x120
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xf0
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x38
el0_svc+0x24/0x88
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x134/0x150
el0t_64_sync+0x14c/0x15
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs: writeback: fix use-after-free in __mark_inode_dirty()
An use-after-free issue occurred when __mark_inode_dirty() get the
bdi_writeback that was in the progress of switching.
CPU: 1 PID: 562 Comm: systemd-random- Not tainted 6.6.56-gb4403bd46a8e #1
......
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : __mark_inode_dirty+0x124/0x418
lr : __mark_inode_dirty+0x118/0x418
sp : ffffffc08c9dbbc0
........
Call trace:
__mark_inode_dirty+0x124/0x418
generic_update_time+0x4c/0x60
file_modified+0xcc/0xd0
ext4_buffered_write_iter+0x58/0x124
ext4_file_write_iter+0x54/0x704
vfs_write+0x1c0/0x308
ksys_write+0x74/0x10c
__arm64_sys_write+0x1c/0x28
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xc0/0xe0
do_el0_svc+0x1c/0x28
el0_svc+0x40/0xe4
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x12c
el0t_64_sync+0x194/0x198
Root cause is:
systemd-random-seed kworker
----------------------------------------------------------------------
___mark_inode_dirty inode_switch_wbs_work_fn
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
inode_attach_wb
locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list
get inode->i_wb
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
spin_lock(&wb->list_lock)
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock)
inode_io_list_move_locked
spin_unlock(&wb->list_lock)
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock)
spin_lock(&old_wb->list_lock)
inode_do_switch_wbs
spin_lock(&inode->i_lock)
inode->i_wb = new_wb
spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock)
spin_unlock(&old_wb->list_lock)
wb_put_many(old_wb, nr_switched)
cgwb_release
old wb released
wb_wakeup_delayed() accesses wb,
then trigger the use-after-free
issue
Fix this race condition by holding inode spinlock until
wb_wakeup_delayed() finished.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i40e: Fix potential invalid access when MAC list is empty
list_first_entry() never returns NULL - if the list is empty, it still
returns a pointer to an invalid object, leading to potential invalid
memory access when dereferenced.
Fix this by using list_first_entry_or_null instead of list_first_entry.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix one NULL pointer dereference in smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync()
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002ec
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 28 UID: 0 PID: 343 Comm: kworker/28:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.17.0-rc2+ #9 NONE
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]
RIP: 0010:smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync+0x9e/0xd0 [smc]
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
smcr_buf_map_link+0x211/0x2a0 [smc]
__smc_buf_create+0x522/0x970 [smc]
smc_buf_create+0x3a/0x110 [smc]
smc_find_rdma_v2_device_serv+0x18f/0x240 [smc]
? smc_vlan_by_tcpsk+0x7e/0xe0 [smc]
smc_listen_find_device+0x1dd/0x2b0 [smc]
smc_listen_work+0x30f/0x580 [smc]
process_one_work+0x18c/0x340
worker_thread+0x242/0x360
kthread+0xe7/0x220
ret_from_fork+0x13a/0x160
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
If the software RoCE device is used, ibdev->dma_device is a null pointer.
As a result, the problem occurs. Null pointer detection is added to
prevent problems.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ptp: ocp: fix use-after-free bugs causing by ptp_ocp_watchdog
The ptp_ocp_detach() only shuts down the watchdog timer if it is
pending. However, if the timer handler is already running, the
timer_delete_sync() is not called. This leads to race conditions
where the devlink that contains the ptp_ocp is deallocated while
the timer handler is still accessing it, resulting in use-after-free
bugs. The following details one of the race scenarios.
(thread 1) | (thread 2)
ptp_ocp_remove() |
ptp_ocp_detach() | ptp_ocp_watchdog()
if (timer_pending(&bp->watchdog))| bp = timer_container_of()
timer_delete_sync() |
|
devlink_free(devlink) //free |
| bp-> //use
Resolve this by unconditionally calling timer_delete_sync() to ensure
the timer is reliably deactivated, preventing any access after free.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Bluetooth: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen()
syzbot reported the splat below without a repro.
In the splat, a single thread calling bt_accept_dequeue() freed sk
and touched it after that.
The root cause would be the racy l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() call
added by the cited commit.
bt_accept_dequeue() is called under lock_sock() except for
l2cap_sock_release().
Two threads could see the same socket during the list iteration
in bt_accept_dequeue():
CPU1 CPU2 (close())
---- ----
sock_hold(sk) sock_hold(sk);
lock_sock(sk) <-- block close()
sock_put(sk)
bt_accept_unlink(sk)
sock_put(sk) <-- refcnt by bt_accept_enqueue()
release_sock(sk)
lock_sock(sk)
sock_put(sk)
bt_accept_unlink(sk)
sock_put(sk) <-- last refcnt
bt_accept_unlink(sk) <-- UAF
Depending on the timing, the other thread could show up in the
"Freed by task" part.
Let's call l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() under lock_sock() in
l2cap_sock_release().
[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in do_raw_spin_lock+0x26f/0x2b0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88803b7eb1c4 by task syz.5.3276/16995
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 16995 Comm: syz.5.3276 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
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
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
print_report+0xcd/0x630 mm/kasan/report.c:482
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:595
debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:86 [inline]
do_raw_spin_lock+0x26f/0x2b0 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:115
spin_lock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:356 [inline]
release_sock+0x21/0x220 net/core/sock.c:3746
bt_accept_dequeue+0x505/0x600 net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c:312
l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen+0x5c/0x2a0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1451
l2cap_sock_release+0x5c/0x210 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c:1425
__sock_release+0xb3/0x270 net/socket.c:649
sock_close+0x1c/0x30 net/socket.c:1439
__fput+0x3ff/0xb70 fs/file_table.c:468
task_work_run+0x14d/0x240 kernel/task_work.c:227
resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline]
exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xeb/0x110 kernel/entry/common.c:43
exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline]
syscall_exit_to_user_mode include/linux/entry-common.h:210 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x3f6/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f2accf8ebe9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb6cb1378 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 00000000000001b4
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000000426fb RCX: 00007f2accf8ebe9
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000000000000001e RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f2acd1b7da0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 00000012b6cb166f
R10: 0000001b30e20000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007f2acd1b609c
R13: 00007f2acd1b6090 R14: ffffffffffffffff R15: 00007ffdb6cb1490
</TASK>
Allocated by task 5326:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:388 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:405
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4365 [inline]
__kmalloc_nopro
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: slub: avoid wake up kswapd in set_track_prepare
set_track_prepare() can incur lock recursion.
The issue is that it is called from hrtimer_start_range_ns
holding the per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock, but when enabled
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_TIMERS, may wake up kswapd in set_track_prepare,
and try to hold the per_cpu(hrtimer_bases)[n].lock.
Avoid deadlock caused by implicitly waking up kswapd by passing in
allocation flags, which do not contain __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM in the
debug_objects_fill_pool() case. Inside stack depot they are processed by
gfp_nested_mask().
Since ___slab_alloc() has preemption disabled, we mask out
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM from the flags there.
The oops looks something like:
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#3, swapper/3/0
lock: 0xffffff8a4bf29c80, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/3/0, .owner_cpu: 3
Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. Popsicle based on SM8850 (DT)
Call trace:
spin_bug+0x0
_raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x80
hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x94
task_contending+0x10c
enqueue_dl_entity+0x2a4
dl_server_start+0x74
enqueue_task_fair+0x568
enqueue_task+0xac
do_activate_task+0x14c
ttwu_do_activate+0xcc
try_to_wake_up+0x6c8
default_wake_function+0x20
autoremove_wake_function+0x1c
__wake_up+0xac
wakeup_kswapd+0x19c
wake_all_kswapds+0x78
__alloc_pages_slowpath+0x1ac
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x298
stack_depot_save_flags+0x6b0
stack_depot_save+0x14
set_track_prepare+0x5c
___slab_alloc+0xccc
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x470
__set_page_owner+0x2bc
post_alloc_hook[jt]+0x1b8
prep_new_page+0x28
get_page_from_freelist+0x1edc
__alloc_pages_noprof+0x13c
alloc_slab_page+0x244
allocate_slab+0x7c
___slab_alloc+0x8e8
kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x450
debug_objects_fill_pool+0x22c
debug_object_activate+0x40
enqueue_hrtimer[jt]+0xdc
hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x5f8
...
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-19