Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.10.10 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/amd: Fix pci device refcount leak in ppr_notifier()
As comment of pci_get_domain_bus_and_slot() says, it returns
a pci device with refcount increment, when finish using it,
the caller must decrement the reference count by calling
pci_dev_put(). So call it before returning from ppr_notifier()
to avoid refcount leak.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
coresight: cti: Fix hang in cti_disable_hw()
cti_enable_hw() and cti_disable_hw() are called from an atomic context
so shouldn't use runtime PM because it can result in a sleep when
communicating with firmware.
Since commit 3c6656337852 ("Revert "firmware: arm_scmi: Add clock
management to the SCMI power domain""), this causes a hang on Juno when
running the Perf Coresight tests or running this command:
perf record -e cs_etm//u -- ls
This was also missed until the revert commit because pm_runtime_put()
was called with the wrong device until commit 692c9a499b28 ("coresight:
cti: Correct the parameter for pm_runtime_put")
With lock and scheduler debugging enabled the following is output:
coresight cti_sys0: cti_enable_hw -- dev:cti_sys0 parent: 20020000.cti
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1151
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 330, name: perf-exec
preempt_count: 2, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
irq event stamp: 0
hardirqs last enabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
hardirqs last disabled at (0): [<ffff80000822b394>] copy_process+0xa0c/0x1948
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffff80000822b394>] copy_process+0xa0c/0x1948
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
CPU: 3 PID: 330 Comm: perf-exec Not tainted 6.0.0-00053-g042116d99298 #7
Hardware name: ARM LTD ARM Juno Development Platform/ARM Juno Development Platform, BIOS EDK II Sep 13 2022
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x134/0x140
show_stack+0x20/0x58
dump_stack_lvl+0x8c/0xb8
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
__might_resched+0x180/0x228
__might_sleep+0x50/0x88
__pm_runtime_resume+0xac/0xb0
cti_enable+0x44/0x120
coresight_control_assoc_ectdev+0xc0/0x150
coresight_enable_path+0xb4/0x288
etm_event_start+0x138/0x170
etm_event_add+0x48/0x70
event_sched_in.isra.122+0xb4/0x280
merge_sched_in+0x1fc/0x3d0
visit_groups_merge.constprop.137+0x16c/0x4b0
ctx_sched_in+0x114/0x1f0
perf_event_sched_in+0x60/0x90
ctx_resched+0x68/0xb0
perf_event_exec+0x138/0x508
begin_new_exec+0x52c/0xd40
load_elf_binary+0x6b8/0x17d0
bprm_execve+0x360/0x7f8
do_execveat_common.isra.47+0x218/0x238
__arm64_sys_execve+0x48/0x60
invoke_syscall+0x4c/0x110
el0_svc_common.constprop.4+0xfc/0x120
do_el0_svc+0x34/0xc0
el0_svc+0x40/0x98
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x98/0xc0
el0t_64_sync+0x170/0x174
Fix the issue by removing the runtime PM calls completely. They are not
needed here because it must have already been done when building the
path for a trace.
[ Fix build warnings ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: fix use-after-free on probe deferral
The bridge counter was never reset when tearing down the DRM device so
that stale pointers to deallocated structures would be accessed on the
next tear down (e.g. after a second late bind deferral).
Given enough bridges and a few probe deferrals this could currently also
lead to data beyond the bridge array being corrupted.
Patchwork: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/502665/
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix crash when I/O abort times out
While performing CPU hotplug, a crash with the following stack was seen:
Call Trace:
qla24xx_process_response_queue+0x42a/0x970 [qla2xxx]
qla2x00_start_nvme_mq+0x3a2/0x4b0 [qla2xxx]
qla_nvme_post_cmd+0x166/0x240 [qla2xxx]
nvme_fc_start_fcp_op.part.0+0x119/0x2e0 [nvme_fc]
blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list+0x17b/0x610
__blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0xb0/0x140
blk_mq_sched_dispatch_requests+0x30/0x60
__blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x35/0x90
__blk_mq_delay_run_hw_queue+0x161/0x180
blk_execute_rq+0xbe/0x160
__nvme_submit_sync_cmd+0x16f/0x220 [nvme_core]
nvmf_connect_admin_queue+0x11a/0x170 [nvme_fabrics]
nvme_fc_create_association.cold+0x50/0x3dc [nvme_fc]
nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work+0x19/0x30 [nvme_fc]
process_one_work+0x1e8/0x3c0
On abort timeout, completion was called without checking if the I/O was
already completed.
Verify that I/O and abort request are indeed outstanding before attempting
completion.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
thermal: intel_powerclamp: Use get_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id() to avoid crash
When CPU 0 is offline and intel_powerclamp is used to inject
idle, it generates kernel BUG:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: bash/15687
caller is debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
CPU: 4 PID: 15687 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.19.0-rc7+ #57
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x49/0x63
dump_stack+0x10/0x16
check_preemption_disabled+0xdd/0xe0
debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
powerclamp_set_cur_state+0x7f/0xf9 [intel_powerclamp]
...
...
Here CPU 0 is the control CPU by default and changed to the current CPU,
if CPU 0 offlined. This check has to be performed under cpus_read_lock(),
hence the above warning.
Use get_cpu() instead of smp_processor_id() to avoid this BUG.
[ rjw: Subject edits ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
dm cache: Fix UAF in destroy()
Dm_cache also has the same UAF problem when dm_resume()
and dm_destroy() are concurrent.
Therefore, cancelling timer again in destroy().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
binfmt_misc: fix shift-out-of-bounds in check_special_flags
UBSAN reported a shift-out-of-bounds warning:
left shift of 1 by 31 places cannot be represented in type 'int'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x8d/0xcf lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue+0xa/0x44 lib/ubsan.c:151
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x1e7/0x208 lib/ubsan.c:322
check_special_flags fs/binfmt_misc.c:241 [inline]
create_entry fs/binfmt_misc.c:456 [inline]
bm_register_write+0x9d3/0xa20 fs/binfmt_misc.c:654
vfs_write+0x11e/0x580 fs/read_write.c:582
ksys_write+0xcf/0x120 fs/read_write.c:637
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0x34/0x80 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
RIP: 0033:0x4194e1
Since the type of Node's flags is unsigned long, we should define these
macros with same type too.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential memory leaks
When the driver hits -ENOMEM at allocating a URB or a buffer, it
aborts and goes to the error path that releases the all previously
allocated resources. However, when -ENOMEM hits at the middle of the
sync EP URB allocation loop, the partially allocated URBs might be
left without released, because ep->nurbs is still zero at that point.
Fix it by setting ep->nurbs at first, so that the error handler loops
over the full URB list.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: add EXT4_IGET_BAD flag to prevent unexpected bad inode
There are many places that will get unhappy (and crash) when ext4_iget()
returns a bad inode. However, if iget the boot loader inode, allows a bad
inode to be returned, because the inode may not be initialized. This
mechanism can be used to bypass some checks and cause panic. To solve this
problem, we add a special iget flag EXT4_IGET_BAD. Only with this flag
we'd be returning bad inode from ext4_iget(), otherwise we always return
the error code if the inode is bad inode.(suggested by Jan Kara)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: ti: Fix return type of netcp_ndo_start_xmit()
With clang's kernel control flow integrity (kCFI, CONFIG_CFI_CLANG),
indirect call targets are validated against the expected function
pointer prototype to make sure the call target is valid to help mitigate
ROP attacks. If they are not identical, there is a failure at run time,
which manifests as either a kernel panic or thread getting killed. A
proposed warning in clang aims to catch these at compile time, which
reveals:
drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_core.c:1944:21: error: incompatible function pointer types initializing 'netdev_tx_t (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' (aka 'enum netdev_tx (*)(struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)') with an expression of type 'int (struct sk_buff *, struct net_device *)' [-Werror,-Wincompatible-function-pointer-types-strict]
.ndo_start_xmit = netcp_ndo_start_xmit,
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
->ndo_start_xmit() in 'struct net_device_ops' expects a return type of
'netdev_tx_t', not 'int'. Adjust the return type of
netcp_ndo_start_xmit() to match the prototype's to resolve the warning
and CFI failure.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04