Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.8.1 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: fix reserved memory setup
Currently, RISC-V sets up reserved memory using the "early" copy of the
device tree. As a result, when trying to get a reserved memory region
using of_reserved_mem_lookup(), the pointer to reserved memory regions
is using the early, pre-virtual-memory address which causes a kernel
panic when trying to use the buffer's name:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000401c31ac
Oops [#1]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 6.0.0-rc1-00001-g0d9d6953d834 #1
Hardware name: Microchip PolarFire-SoC Icicle Kit (DT)
epc : string+0x4a/0xea
ra : vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
epc : ffffffff80335ea0 ra : ffffffff80338936 sp : ffffffff81203be0
gp : ffffffff812e0a98 tp : ffffffff8120de40 t0 : 0000000000000000
t1 : ffffffff81203e28 t2 : 7265736572203a46 s0 : ffffffff81203c20
s1 : ffffffff81203e28 a0 : ffffffff81203d22 a1 : 0000000000000000
a2 : ffffffff81203d08 a3 : 0000000081203d21 a4 : ffffffffffffffff
a5 : 00000000401c31ac a6 : ffff0a00ffffff04 a7 : ffffffffffffffff
s2 : ffffffff81203d08 s3 : ffffffff81203d00 s4 : 0000000000000008
s5 : ffffffff000000ff s6 : 0000000000ffffff s7 : 00000000ffffff00
s8 : ffffffff80d9821a s9 : ffffffff81203d22 s10: 0000000000000002
s11: ffffffff80d9821c t3 : ffffffff812f3617 t4 : ffffffff812f3617
t5 : ffffffff812f3618 t6 : ffffffff81203d08
status: 0000000200000100 badaddr: 00000000401c31ac cause: 000000000000000d
[<ffffffff80338936>] vsnprintf+0x1e4/0x336
[<ffffffff80055ae2>] vprintk_store+0xf6/0x344
[<ffffffff80055d86>] vprintk_emit+0x56/0x192
[<ffffffff80055ed8>] vprintk_default+0x16/0x1e
[<ffffffff800563d2>] vprintk+0x72/0x80
[<ffffffff806813b2>] _printk+0x36/0x50
[<ffffffff8068af48>] print_reserved_mem+0x1c/0x24
[<ffffffff808057ec>] paging_init+0x528/0x5bc
[<ffffffff808031ae>] setup_arch+0xd0/0x592
[<ffffffff8080070e>] start_kernel+0x82/0x73c
early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() takes no arguments as it operates on
initial_boot_params, which is populated by early_init_dt_verify(). On
RISC-V, early_init_dt_verify() is called twice. Once, directly, in
setup_arch() if CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB is not enabled and once indirectly,
very early in the boot process, by parse_dtb() when it calls
early_init_dt_scan_nodes().
This first call uses dtb_early_va to set initial_boot_params, which is
not usable later in the boot process when
early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() is called. On arm64 for example, the
corresponding call to early_init_dt_scan_nodes() uses fixmap addresses
and doesn't suffer the same fate.
Move early_init_fdt_scan_reserved_mem() further along the boot sequence,
after the direct call to early_init_dt_verify() in setup_arch() so that
the names use the correct virtual memory addresses. The above supposed
that CONFIG_BUILTIN_DTB was not set, but should work equally in the case
where it is - unflatted_and_copy_device_tree() also updates
initial_boot_params.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
riscv: process: fix kernel info leakage
thread_struct's s[12] may contain random kernel memory content, which
may be finally leaked to userspace. This is a security hole. Fix it
by clearing the s[12] array in thread_struct when fork.
As for kthread case, it's better to clear the s[12] array as well.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: macvlan: fix memory leaks of macvlan_common_newlink
kmemleak reports memory leaks in macvlan_common_newlink, as follows:
ip link add link eth0 name .. type macvlan mode source macaddr add
<MAC-ADDR>
kmemleak reports:
unreferenced object 0xffff8880109bb140 (size 64):
comm "ip", pid 284, jiffies 4294986150 (age 430.108s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 aa 5a 12 80 88 ff ff ..........Z.....
80 1b fa 0d 80 88 ff ff 1e ff ac af c7 c1 6b 6b ..............kk
backtrace:
[<ffffffff813e06a7>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x1c7/0x300
[<ffffffff81b66025>] macvlan_hash_add_source+0x45/0xc0
[<ffffffff81b66a67>] macvlan_changelink_sources+0xd7/0x170
[<ffffffff81b6775c>] macvlan_common_newlink+0x38c/0x5a0
[<ffffffff81b6797e>] macvlan_newlink+0xe/0x20
[<ffffffff81d97f8f>] __rtnl_newlink+0x7af/0xa50
[<ffffffff81d98278>] rtnl_newlink+0x48/0x70
...
In the scenario where the macvlan mode is configured as 'source',
macvlan_changelink_sources() will be execured to reconfigure list of
remote source mac addresses, at the same time, if register_netdevice()
return an error, the resource generated by macvlan_changelink_sources()
is not cleaned up.
Using this patch, in the case of an error, it will execute
macvlan_flush_sources() to ensure that the resource is cleaned up.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
siox: fix possible memory leak in siox_device_add()
If device_register() returns error in siox_device_add(),
the name allocated by dev_set_name() need be freed. As
comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device()
to give up the reference in the error path. So fix this
by calling put_device(), then the name can be freed in
kobject_cleanup(), and sdevice is freed in siox_device_release(),
set it to null in error path.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix memory leaks in __check_func_call
kmemleak reports this issue:
unreferenced object 0xffff88817139d000 (size 2048):
comm "test_progs", pid 33246, jiffies 4307381979 (age 45851.820s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace:
[<0000000045f075f0>] kmalloc_trace+0x27/0xa0
[<0000000098b7c90a>] __check_func_call+0x316/0x1230
[<00000000b4c3c403>] check_helper_call+0x172e/0x4700
[<00000000aa3875b7>] do_check+0x21d8/0x45e0
[<000000001147357b>] do_check_common+0x767/0xaf0
[<00000000b5a595b4>] bpf_check+0x43e3/0x5bc0
[<0000000011e391b1>] bpf_prog_load+0xf26/0x1940
[<0000000007f765c0>] __sys_bpf+0xd2c/0x3650
[<00000000839815d6>] __x64_sys_bpf+0x75/0xc0
[<00000000946ee250>] do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90
[<0000000000506b7f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
The root case here is: In function prepare_func_exit(), the callee is
not released in the abnormal scenario after "state->curframe--;". To
fix, move "state->curframe--;" to the very bottom of the function,
right when we free callee and reset frame[] pointer to NULL, as Andrii
suggested.
In addition, function __check_func_call() has a similar problem. In
the abnormal scenario before "state->curframe++;", the callee also
should be released by free_func_state().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: clear out_curr if all frag chunks of current msg are pruned
A crash was reported by Zhen Chen:
list_del corruption, ffffa035ddf01c18->next is NULL
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 250682 at lib/list_debug.c:49 __list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0
RIP: 0010:__list_del_entry_valid+0x59/0xe0
Call Trace:
sctp_sched_dequeue_common+0x17/0x70 [sctp]
sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue+0x37/0x50 [sctp]
sctp_outq_flush_data+0x85/0x360 [sctp]
sctp_outq_uncork+0x77/0xa0 [sctp]
sctp_cmd_interpreter.constprop.0+0x164/0x1450 [sctp]
sctp_side_effects+0x37/0xe0 [sctp]
sctp_do_sm+0xd0/0x230 [sctp]
sctp_primitive_SEND+0x2f/0x40 [sctp]
sctp_sendmsg_to_asoc+0x3fa/0x5c0 [sctp]
sctp_sendmsg+0x3d5/0x440 [sctp]
sock_sendmsg+0x5b/0x70
and in sctp_sched_fcfs_dequeue() it dequeued a chunk from stream
out_curr outq while this outq was empty.
Normally stream->out_curr must be set to NULL once all frag chunks of
current msg are dequeued, as we can see in sctp_sched_dequeue_done().
However, in sctp_prsctp_prune_unsent() as it is not a proper dequeue,
sctp_sched_dequeue_done() is not called to do this.
This patch is to fix it by simply setting out_curr to NULL when the
last frag chunk of current msg is dequeued from out_curr stream in
sctp_prsctp_prune_unsent().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix error handling in sas_phy_add()
If transport_add_device() fails in sas_phy_add(), the kernel will crash
trying to delete the device in transport_remove_device() called from
sas_remove_host().
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000108
CPU: 61 PID: 42829 Comm: rmmod Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W 6.1.0-rc1+ #173
pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : device_del+0x54/0x3d0
lr : device_del+0x37c/0x3d0
Call trace:
device_del+0x54/0x3d0
attribute_container_class_device_del+0x28/0x38
transport_remove_classdev+0x6c/0x80
attribute_container_device_trigger+0x108/0x110
transport_remove_device+0x28/0x38
sas_phy_delete+0x30/0x60 [scsi_transport_sas]
do_sas_phy_delete+0x6c/0x80 [scsi_transport_sas]
device_for_each_child+0x68/0xb0
sas_remove_children+0x40/0x50 [scsi_transport_sas]
sas_remove_host+0x20/0x38 [scsi_transport_sas]
hisi_sas_remove+0x40/0x68 [hisi_sas_main]
hisi_sas_v2_remove+0x20/0x30 [hisi_sas_v2_hw]
platform_remove+0x2c/0x60
Fix this by checking and handling return value of transport_add_device()
in sas_phy_add().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf, test_run: Fix alignment problem in bpf_prog_test_run_skb()
We got a syzkaller problem because of aarch64 alignment fault
if KFENCE enabled. When the size from user bpf program is an odd
number, like 399, 407, etc, it will cause the struct skb_shared_info's
unaligned access. As seen below:
BUG: KFENCE: use-after-free read in __skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032
Use-after-free read at 0xffff6254fffac077 (in kfence-#213):
__lse_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic_lse.h:26 [inline]
arch_atomic_add arch/arm64/include/asm/atomic.h:28 [inline]
arch_atomic_inc include/linux/atomic-arch-fallback.h:270 [inline]
atomic_inc include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:241 [inline]
__skb_clone+0x23c/0x2a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1032
skb_clone+0xf4/0x214 net/core/skbuff.c:1481
____bpf_clone_redirect net/core/filter.c:2433 [inline]
bpf_clone_redirect+0x78/0x1c0 net/core/filter.c:2420
bpf_prog_d3839dd9068ceb51+0x80/0x330
bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:728 [inline]
bpf_test_run+0x3c0/0x6c0 net/bpf/test_run.c:53
bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x638/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:594
bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline]
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381
kfence-#213: 0xffff6254fffac000-0xffff6254fffac196, size=407, cache=kmalloc-512
allocated by task 15074 on cpu 0 at 1342.585390s:
kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:568 [inline]
kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:675 [inline]
bpf_test_init.isra.0+0xac/0x290 net/bpf/test_run.c:191
bpf_prog_test_run_skb+0x11c/0xa7c net/bpf/test_run.c:512
bpf_prog_test_run kernel/bpf/syscall.c:3148 [inline]
__do_sys_bpf kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4441 [inline]
__se_sys_bpf+0xad0/0x1634 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381
__arm64_sys_bpf+0x50/0x60 kernel/bpf/syscall.c:4381
To fix the problem, we adjust @size so that (@size + @hearoom) is a
multiple of SMP_CACHE_BYTES. So we make sure the struct skb_shared_info
is aligned to a cache line.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
serial: imx: Add missing .thaw_noirq hook
The following warning is seen with non-console UART instance when
system hibernates.
[ 37.371969] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 37.376599] uart3_root_clk already disabled
[ 37.380810] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 296 at drivers/clk/clk.c:952 clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xb0
...
[ 37.506986] Call trace:
[ 37.509432] clk_core_disable+0xa4/0xb0
[ 37.513270] clk_disable+0x34/0x50
[ 37.516672] imx_uart_thaw+0x38/0x5c
[ 37.520250] platform_pm_thaw+0x30/0x6c
[ 37.524089] dpm_run_callback.constprop.0+0x3c/0xd4
[ 37.528972] device_resume+0x7c/0x160
[ 37.532633] dpm_resume+0xe8/0x230
[ 37.536036] hibernation_snapshot+0x288/0x430
[ 37.540397] hibernate+0x10c/0x2e0
[ 37.543798] state_store+0xc4/0xd0
[ 37.547203] kobj_attr_store+0x1c/0x30
[ 37.550953] sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x60
[ 37.554619] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1ac
[ 37.559063] new_sync_write+0xe8/0x184
[ 37.562812] vfs_write+0x230/0x290
[ 37.566214] ksys_write+0x68/0xf4
[ 37.569529] __arm64_sys_write+0x20/0x2c
[ 37.573452] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x50/0xf0
[ 37.578156] do_el0_svc+0x11c/0x150
[ 37.581648] el0_svc+0x30/0x140
[ 37.584792] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xe8/0xf0
[ 37.588976] el0t_64_sync+0x1a0/0x1a4
[ 37.592639] ---[ end trace 56e22eec54676d75 ]---
On hibernating, pm core calls into related hooks in sequence like:
.freeze
.freeze_noirq
.thaw_noirq
.thaw
With .thaw_noirq hook being absent, the clock will be disabled in a
unbalanced call which results the warning above.
imx_uart_freeze()
clk_prepare_enable()
imx_uart_suspend_noirq()
clk_disable()
imx_uart_thaw
clk_disable_unprepare()
Adding the missing .thaw_noirq hook as imx_uart_resume_noirq() will have
the call sequence corrected as below and thus fix the warning.
imx_uart_freeze()
clk_prepare_enable()
imx_uart_suspend_noirq()
clk_disable()
imx_uart_resume_noirq()
clk_enable()
imx_uart_thaw
clk_disable_unprepare()
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: core: Fix use-after-free in snd_soc_exit()
KASAN reports a use-after-free:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in device_del+0xb5b/0xc60
Read of size 8 at addr ffff888008655050 by task rmmod/387
CPU: 2 PID: 387 Comm: rmmod
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x79/0x9a
print_report+0x17f/0x47b
kasan_report+0xbb/0xf0
device_del+0xb5b/0xc60
platform_device_del.part.0+0x24/0x200
platform_device_unregister+0x2e/0x40
snd_soc_exit+0xa/0x22 [snd_soc_core]
__do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x34f/0x5b0
do_syscall_64+0x3a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
...
</TASK>
It's bacause in snd_soc_init(), snd_soc_util_init() is possble to fail,
but its ret is ignored, which makes soc_dummy_dev unregistered twice.
snd_soc_init()
snd_soc_util_init()
platform_device_register_simple(soc_dummy_dev)
platform_driver_register() # fail
platform_device_unregister(soc_dummy_dev)
platform_driver_register() # success
...
snd_soc_exit()
snd_soc_util_exit()
# soc_dummy_dev will be unregistered for second time
To fix it, handle error and stop snd_soc_init() when util_init() fail.
Also clean debugfs when util_init() or driver_register() fail.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2025-05-01