Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.6.45 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fs/nfs/read: fix double-unlock bug in nfs_return_empty_folio()
Sometimes, when a file was read while it was being truncated by
another NFS client, the kernel could deadlock because folio_unlock()
was called twice, and the second call would XOR back the `PG_locked`
flag.
Most of the time (depending on the timing of the truncation), nobody
notices the problem because folio_unlock() gets called three times,
which flips `PG_locked` back off:
1. vfs_read, nfs_read_folio, ... nfs_read_add_folio,
nfs_return_empty_folio
2. vfs_read, nfs_read_folio, ... netfs_read_collection,
netfs_unlock_abandoned_read_pages
3. vfs_read, ... nfs_do_read_folio, nfs_read_add_folio,
nfs_return_empty_folio
The problem is that nfs_read_add_folio() is not supposed to unlock the
folio if fscache is enabled, and a nfs_netfs_folio_unlock() check is
missing in nfs_return_empty_folio().
Rarely this leads to a warning in netfs_read_collection():
------------[ cut here ]------------
R=0000031c: folio 10 is not locked
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 29 at fs/netfs/read_collect.c:133 netfs_read_collection+0x7c0/0xf00
[...]
Workqueue: events_unbound netfs_read_collection_worker
RIP: 0010:netfs_read_collection+0x7c0/0xf00
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
netfs_read_collection_worker+0x67/0x80
process_one_work+0x12e/0x2c0
worker_thread+0x295/0x3a0
Most of the time, however, processes just get stuck forever in
folio_wait_bit_common(), waiting for `PG_locked` to disappear, which
never happens because nobody is really holding the folio lock.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jffs2: check jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() result in few other places
Fuzzing hit another invalid pointer dereference due to the lack of
checking whether jffs2_prealloc_raw_node_refs() completed successfully.
Subsequent logic implies that the node refs have been allocated.
Handle that. The code is ready for propagating the error upwards.
KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000008-0x000000000000000f]
CPU: 1 PID: 5835 Comm: syz-executor145 Not tainted 5.10.234-syzkaller #0
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:jffs2_link_node_ref+0xac/0x690 fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:600
Call Trace:
jffs2_mark_erased_block fs/jffs2/erase.c:460 [inline]
jffs2_erase_pending_blocks+0x688/0x1860 fs/jffs2/erase.c:118
jffs2_garbage_collect_pass+0x638/0x1a00 fs/jffs2/gc.c:253
jffs2_reserve_space+0x3f4/0xad0 fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:167
jffs2_write_inode_range+0x246/0xb50 fs/jffs2/write.c:362
jffs2_write_end+0x712/0x1110 fs/jffs2/file.c:302
generic_perform_write+0x2c2/0x500 mm/filemap.c:3347
__generic_file_write_iter+0x252/0x610 mm/filemap.c:3465
generic_file_write_iter+0xdb/0x230 mm/filemap.c:3497
call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2039 [inline]
do_iter_readv_writev+0x46d/0x750 fs/read_write.c:740
do_iter_write+0x18c/0x710 fs/read_write.c:866
vfs_writev+0x1db/0x6a0 fs/read_write.c:939
do_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1036 [inline]
__do_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1083 [inline]
__se_sys_pwritev fs/read_write.c:1078 [inline]
__x64_sys_pwritev+0x235/0x310 fs/read_write.c:1078
do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x67/0xd1
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ethernet: cortina: Use TOE/TSO on all TCP
It is desireable to push the hardware accelerator to also
process non-segmented TCP frames: we pass the skb->len
to the "TOE/TSO" offloader and it will handle them.
Without this quirk the driver becomes unstable and lock
up and and crash.
I do not know exactly why, but it is probably due to the
TOE (TCP offload engine) feature that is coupled with the
segmentation feature - it is not possible to turn one
part off and not the other, either both TOE and TSO are
active, or neither of them.
Not having the TOE part active seems detrimental, as if
that hardware feature is not really supposed to be turned
off.
The datasheet says:
"Based on packet parsing and TCP connection/NAT table
lookup results, the NetEngine puts the packets
belonging to the same TCP connection to the same queue
for the software to process. The NetEngine puts
incoming packets to the buffer or series of buffers
for a jumbo packet. With this hardware acceleration,
IP/TCP header parsing, checksum validation and
connection lookup are offloaded from the software
processing."
After numerous tests with the hardware locking up after
something between minutes and hours depending on load
using iperf3 I have concluded this is necessary to stabilize
the hardware.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: lpfc: Use memcpy() for BIOS version
The strlcat() with FORTIFY support is triggering a panic because it
thinks the target buffer will overflow although the correct target
buffer size is passed in.
Anyway, instead of memset() with 0 followed by a strlcat(), just use
memcpy() and ensure that the resulting buffer is NULL terminated.
BIOSVersion is only used for the lpfc_printf_log() which expects a
properly terminated string.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
f2fs: fix to bail out in get_new_segment()
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 579 at fs/f2fs/segment.c:2832 new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
pc : new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
Call trace:
new_curseg+0x5e8/0x6dc
f2fs_allocate_data_block+0xa54/0xe28
do_write_page+0x6c/0x194
f2fs_do_write_node_page+0x38/0x78
__write_node_page+0x248/0x6d4
f2fs_sync_node_pages+0x524/0x72c
f2fs_write_checkpoint+0x4bc/0x9b0
__checkpoint_and_complete_reqs+0x80/0x244
issue_checkpoint_thread+0x8c/0xec
kthread+0x114/0x1bc
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
get_new_segment() detects inconsistent status in between free_segmap
and free_secmap, let's record such error into super block, and bail
out get_new_segment() instead of continue using the segment.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/sgx: Prevent attempts to reclaim poisoned pages
TL;DR: SGX page reclaim touches the page to copy its contents to
secondary storage. SGX instructions do not gracefully handle machine
checks. Despite this, the existing SGX code will try to reclaim pages
that it _knows_ are poisoned. Avoid even trying to reclaim poisoned pages.
The longer story:
Pages used by an enclave only get epc_page->poison set in
arch_memory_failure() but they currently stay on sgx_active_page_list until
sgx_encl_release(), with the SGX_EPC_PAGE_RECLAIMER_TRACKED flag untouched.
epc_page->poison is not checked in the reclaimer logic meaning that, if other
conditions are met, an attempt will be made to reclaim an EPC page that was
poisoned. This is bad because 1. we don't want that page to end up added
to another enclave and 2. it is likely to cause one core to shut down
and the kernel to panic.
Specifically, reclaiming uses microcode operations including "EWB" which
accesses the EPC page contents to encrypt and write them out to non-SGX
memory. Those operations cannot handle MCEs in their accesses other than
by putting the executing core into a special shutdown state (affecting
both threads with HT.) The kernel will subsequently panic on the
remaining cores seeing the core didn't enter MCE handler(s) in time.
Call sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() to remove the affected EPC page from
sgx_active_page_list on memory error to stop it being considered for
reclaiming.
Testing epc_page->poison in sgx_reclaim_pages() would also work but I assume
it's better to add code in the less likely paths.
The affected EPC page is not added to &node->sgx_poison_page_list until
later in sgx_encl_release()->sgx_free_epc_page() when it is EREMOVEd.
Membership on other lists doesn't change to avoid changing any of the
lists' semantics except for sgx_active_page_list. There's a "TBD" comment
in arch_memory_failure() about pre-emptive actions, the goal here is not
to address everything that it may imply.
This also doesn't completely close the time window when a memory error
notification will be fatal (for a not previously poisoned EPC page) --
the MCE can happen after sgx_reclaim_pages() has selected its candidates
or even *inside* a microcode operation (actually easy to trigger due to
the amount of time spent in them.)
The spinlock in sgx_unmark_page_reclaimable() is safe because
memory_failure() runs in process context and no spinlocks are held,
explicitly noted in a mm/memory-failure.c comment.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smb: Log an error when close_all_cached_dirs fails
Under low-memory conditions, close_all_cached_dirs() can't move the
dentries to a separate list to dput() them once the locks are dropped.
This will result in a "Dentry still in use" error, so add an error
message that makes it clear this is what happened:
[ 495.281119] CIFS: VFS: \\otters.example.com\share Out of memory while dropping dentries
[ 495.281595] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 495.281887] BUG: Dentry ffff888115531138{i=78,n=/} still in use (2) [unmount of cifs cifs]
[ 495.282391] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 2329 at fs/dcache.c:1536 umount_check+0xc8/0xf0
Also, bail out of looping through all tcons as soon as a single
allocation fails, since we're already in trouble, and kmalloc() attempts
for subseqeuent tcons are likely to fail just like the first one did.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: atm: add lec_mutex
syzbot found its way in net/atm/lec.c, and found an error path
in lecd_attach() could leave a dangling pointer in dev_lec[].
Add a mutex to protect dev_lecp[] uses from lecd_attach(),
lec_vcc_attach() and lec_mcast_attach().
Following patch will use this mutex for /proc/net/atm/lec.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:751 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lane_ioctl+0x2224/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807c7b8e68 by task syz.1.17/6142
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6142 Comm: syz.1.17 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-syzkaller-00239-g08215f5486ec #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
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:408 [inline]
print_report+0xcd/0x680 mm/kasan/report.c:521
kasan_report+0xe0/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:634
lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:751 [inline]
lane_ioctl+0x2224/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008
do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159
sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190
sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
</TASK>
Allocated by task 6132:
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:377 [inline]
__kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
__do_kmalloc_node mm/slub.c:4328 [inline]
__kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x27b/0x620 mm/slub.c:5015
alloc_netdev_mqs+0xd2/0x1570 net/core/dev.c:11711
lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:737 [inline]
lane_ioctl+0x17db/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008
do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159
sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190
sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4c0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
Freed by task 6132:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60 mm/kasan/common.c:47
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:68
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
__kasan_slab_free+0x51/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]
slab_free mm/slub.c:4643 [inline]
kfree+0x2b4/0x4d0 mm/slub.c:4842
free_netdev+0x6c5/0x910 net/core/dev.c:11892
lecd_attach net/atm/lec.c:744 [inline]
lane_ioctl+0x1ce8/0x23e0 net/atm/lec.c:1008
do_vcc_ioctl+0x12c/0x930 net/atm/ioctl.c:159
sock_do_ioctl+0x118/0x280 net/socket.c:1190
sock_ioctl+0x227/0x6b0 net/socket.c:1311
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:893 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x18e/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:893
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mpls: Use rcu_dereference_rtnl() in mpls_route_input_rcu().
As syzbot reported [0], mpls_route_input_rcu() can be called
from mpls_getroute(), where is under RTNL.
net->mpls.platform_label is only updated under RTNL.
Let's use rcu_dereference_rtnl() in mpls_route_input_rcu() to
silence the splat.
[0]:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-00082-g5cdb2c77c4c3 #0 Not tainted
----------------------------
net/mpls/af_mpls.c:84 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by syz.2.4451/17730:
#0: ffffffff9012a3e8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnl_lock net/core/rtnetlink.c:80 [inline]
#0: ffffffff9012a3e8 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x371/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6961
stack backtrace:
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 17730 Comm: syz.2.4451 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc7-syzkaller-00082-g5cdb2c77c4c3 #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x166/0x260 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:6865
mpls_route_input_rcu+0x1d4/0x200 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:84
mpls_getroute+0x621/0x1ea0 net/mpls/af_mpls.c:2381
rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x3c9/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6964
netlink_rcv_skb+0x16d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2534
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1313 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x53a/0x7f0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339
netlink_sendmsg+0x8d1/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1883
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
__sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0xa98/0xc70 net/socket.c:2566
___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2620
__sys_sendmmsg+0x200/0x420 net/socket.c:2709
__do_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2736 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmmsg net/socket.c:2733 [inline]
__x64_sys_sendmmsg+0x9c/0x100 net/socket.c:2733
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x230 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0a2818e969
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:00007f0a28f52038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000133
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f0a283b5fa0 RCX: 00007f0a2818e969
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000200000000080 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00007f0a28210ab1 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007f0a283b5fa0 R15: 00007ffce5e9f268
</TASK>
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-07-10
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
aoe: clean device rq_list in aoedev_downdev()
An aoe device's rq_list contains accepted block requests that are
waiting to be transmitted to the aoe target. This queue was added as
part of the conversion to blk_mq. However, the queue was not cleaned out
when an aoe device is downed which caused blk_mq_freeze_queue() to sleep
indefinitely waiting for those requests to complete, causing a hang. This
fix cleans out the queue before calling blk_mq_freeze_queue().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-07-10