Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.15.163 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
x86/vmscape: Add conditional IBPB mitigation
VMSCAPE is a vulnerability that exploits insufficient branch predictor
isolation between a guest and a userspace hypervisor (like QEMU). Existing
mitigations already protect kernel/KVM from a malicious guest. Userspace
can additionally be protected by flushing the branch predictors after a
VMexit.
Since it is the userspace that consumes the poisoned branch predictors,
conditionally issue an IBPB after a VMexit and before returning to
userspace. Workloads that frequently switch between hypervisor and
userspace will incur the most overhead from the new IBPB.
This new IBPB is not integrated with the existing IBPB sites. For
instance, a task can use the existing speculation control prctl() to
get an IBPB at context switch time. With this implementation, the
IBPB is doubled up: one at context switch and another before running
userspace.
The intent is to integrate and optimize these cases post-embargo.
[ dhansen: elaborate on suboptimal IBPB solution ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
parisc: Drop WARN_ON_ONCE() from flush_cache_vmap
I have observed warning to occassionally trigger.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
jbd2: prevent softlockup in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint()
Both jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() and jbd2_journal_shrink_checkpoint_list()
periodically release j_list_lock after processing a batch of buffers to
avoid long hold times on the j_list_lock. However, since both functions
contend for j_list_lock, the combined time spent waiting and processing
can be significant.
jbd2_journal_shrink_checkpoint_list() explicitly calls cond_resched() when
need_resched() is true to avoid softlockups during prolonged operations.
But jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() only exits its loop when need_resched() is
true, relying on potentially sleeping functions like __flush_batch() or
wait_on_buffer() to trigger rescheduling. If those functions do not sleep,
the kernel may hit a softlockup.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 156s! [kworker/u129:2:373]
CPU: 3 PID: 373 Comm: kworker/u129:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.6.0+ #10
Hardware name: Huawei TaiShan 2280 /BC11SPCD, BIOS 1.27 06/13/2017
Workqueue: writeback wb_workfn (flush-7:2)
pstate: 20000005 (nzCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x358/0x418
lr : jbd2_log_do_checkpoint+0x31c/0x438 [jbd2]
Call trace:
native_queued_spin_lock_slowpath+0x358/0x418
jbd2_log_do_checkpoint+0x31c/0x438 [jbd2]
__jbd2_log_wait_for_space+0xfc/0x2f8 [jbd2]
add_transaction_credits+0x3bc/0x418 [jbd2]
start_this_handle+0xf8/0x560 [jbd2]
jbd2__journal_start+0x118/0x228 [jbd2]
__ext4_journal_start_sb+0x110/0x188 [ext4]
ext4_do_writepages+0x3dc/0x740 [ext4]
ext4_writepages+0xa4/0x190 [ext4]
do_writepages+0x94/0x228
__writeback_single_inode+0x48/0x318
writeback_sb_inodes+0x204/0x590
__writeback_inodes_wb+0x54/0xf8
wb_writeback+0x2cc/0x3d8
wb_do_writeback+0x2e0/0x2f8
wb_workfn+0x80/0x2a8
process_one_work+0x178/0x3e8
worker_thread+0x234/0x3b8
kthread+0xf0/0x108
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
So explicitly call cond_resched() in jbd2_log_do_checkpoint() to avoid
softlockup.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: endpoint: Fix configfs group list head handling
Doing a list_del() on the epf_group field of struct pci_epf_driver in
pci_epf_remove_cfs() is not correct as this field is a list head, not
a list entry. This list_del() call triggers a KASAN warning when an
endpoint function driver which has a configfs attribute group is torn
down:
==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pci_epf_remove_cfs+0x17c/0x198
Write of size 8 at addr ffff00010f4a0d80 by task rmmod/319
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 319 Comm: rmmod Not tainted 6.16.0-rc2 #1 NONE
Hardware name: Radxa ROCK 5B (DT)
Call trace:
show_stack+0x2c/0x84 (C)
dump_stack_lvl+0x70/0x98
print_report+0x17c/0x538
kasan_report+0xb8/0x190
__asan_report_store8_noabort+0x20/0x2c
pci_epf_remove_cfs+0x17c/0x198
pci_epf_unregister_driver+0x18/0x30
nvmet_pci_epf_cleanup_module+0x24/0x30 [nvmet_pci_epf]
__arm64_sys_delete_module+0x264/0x424
invoke_syscall+0x70/0x260
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xac/0x230
do_el0_svc+0x40/0x58
el0_svc+0x48/0xdc
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x10c/0x138
el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c
...
Remove this incorrect list_del() call from pci_epf_remove_cfs().
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
soc: qcom: mdt_loader: Ensure we don't read past the ELF header
When the MDT loader is used in remoteproc, the ELF header is sanitized
beforehand, but that's not necessary the case for other clients.
Validate the size of the firmware buffer to ensure that we don't read
past the end as we iterate over the header. e_phentsize and e_shentsize
are validated as well, to ensure that the assumptions about step size in
the traversal are valid.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bridge: fix soft lockup in br_multicast_query_expired()
When set multicast_query_interval to a large value, the local variable
'time' in br_multicast_send_query() may overflow. If the time is smaller
than jiffies, the timer will expire immediately, and then call mod_timer()
again, which creates a loop and may trigger the following soft lockup
issue.
watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 221s! [rb_consumer:66]
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 66 Comm: rb_consumer Not tainted 6.16.0+ #259 PREEMPT(none)
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
__netdev_alloc_skb+0x2e/0x3a0
br_ip6_multicast_alloc_query+0x212/0x1b70
__br_multicast_send_query+0x376/0xac0
br_multicast_send_query+0x299/0x510
br_multicast_query_expired.constprop.0+0x16d/0x1b0
call_timer_fn+0x3b/0x2a0
__run_timers+0x619/0x950
run_timer_softirq+0x11c/0x220
handle_softirqs+0x18e/0x560
__irq_exit_rcu+0x158/0x1a0
sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x76/0x90
</IRQ>
This issue can be reproduced with:
ip link add br0 type bridge
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_querier
echo 0xffffffffffffffff >
/sys/class/net/br0/bridge/multicast_query_interval
ip link set dev br0 up
The multicast_startup_query_interval can also cause this issue. Similar to
the commit 99b40610956a ("net: bridge: mcast: add and enforce query
interval minimum"), add check for the query interval maximum to fix this
issue.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: clear page table entries at destroy_args()
The mm/debug_vm_pagetable test allocates manually page table entries for
the tests it runs, using also its manually allocated mm_struct. That in
itself is ok, but when it exits, at destroy_args() it fails to clear those
entries with the *_clear functions.
The problem is that leaves stale entries. If another process allocates an
mm_struct with a pgd at the same address, it may end up running into the
stale entry. This is happening in practice on a debug kernel with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE=y, for example this is the output with some extra
debugging I added (it prints a warning trace if pgtables_bytes goes
negative, in addition to the warning at check_mm() function):
[ 2.539353] debug_vm_pgtable: [get_random_vaddr ]: random_vaddr is 0x7ea247140000
[ 2.539366] kmem_cache info
[ 2.539374] kmem_cachep 0x000000002ce82385 - freelist 0x0000000000000000 - offset 0x508
[ 2.539447] debug_vm_pgtable: [init_args ]: args->mm is 0x000000002267cc9e
(...)
[ 2.552800] WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 116 at include/linux/mm.h:2841 free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0
[ 2.552816] Modules linked in:
[ 2.552843] CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 116 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug #1 VOLUNTARY
[ 2.552859] Hardware name: IBM,9009-41A POWER9 (architected) 0x4e0202 0xf000005 of:IBM,FW910.00 (VL910_062) hv:phyp pSeries
[ 2.552872] NIP: c0000000007eef3c LR: c0000000007eef30 CTR: c0000000003d8c90
[ 2.552885] REGS: c0000000622e73b0 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (6.12.0-105.debug_vm2.el10.ppc64le+debug)
[ 2.552899] MSR: 800000000282b033 <SF,VEC,VSX,EE,FP,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 24002822 XER: 0000000a
[ 2.552954] CFAR: c0000000008f03f0 IRQMASK: 0
[ 2.552954] GPR00: c0000000007eef30 c0000000622e7650 c000000002b1ac00 0000000000000001
[ 2.552954] GPR04: 0000000000000008 0000000000000000 c0000000007eef30 ffffffffffffffff
[ 2.552954] GPR08: 00000000ffff00f5 0000000000000001 0000000000000048 0000000000004000
[ 2.552954] GPR12: 00000003fa440000 c000000017ffa300 c0000000051d9f80 ffffffffffffffdb
[ 2.552954] GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000000000008 000000000000000a 60000000000000e0
[ 2.552954] GPR20: 4080000000000000 c0000000113af038 00007fffcf130000 0000700000000000
[ 2.552954] GPR24: c000000062a6a000 0000000000000001 8000000062a68000 0000000000000001
[ 2.552954] GPR28: 000000000000000a c000000062ebc600 0000000000002000 c000000062ebc760
[ 2.553170] NIP [c0000000007eef3c] free_pud_range+0x8bc/0x8d0
[ 2.553185] LR [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0
[ 2.553199] Call Trace:
[ 2.553207] [c0000000622e7650] [c0000000007eef30] free_pud_range+0x8b0/0x8d0 (unreliable)
[ 2.553229] [c0000000622e7750] [c0000000007f40b4] free_pgd_range+0x284/0x3b0
[ 2.553248] [c0000000622e7800] [c0000000007f4630] free_pgtables+0x450/0x570
[ 2.553274] [c0000000622e78e0] [c0000000008161c0] exit_mmap+0x250/0x650
[ 2.553292] [c0000000622e7a30] [c0000000001b95b8] __mmput+0x98/0x290
[ 2.558344] [c0000000622e7a80] [c0000000001d1018] exit_mm+0x118/0x1b0
[ 2.558361] [c0000000622e7ac0] [c0000000001d141c] do_exit+0x2ec/0x870
[ 2.558376] [c0000000622e7b60] [c0000000001d1ca8] do_group_exit+0x88/0x150
[ 2.558391] [c0000000622e7bb0] [c0000000001d1db8] sys_exit_group+0x48/0x50
[ 2.558407] [c0000000622e7be0] [c00000000003d810] system_call_exception+0x1e0/0x4c0
[ 2.558423] [c0000000622e7e50] [c00000000000d05c] system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec
(...)
[ 2.558892] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[ 2.559022] BUG: Bad rss-counter state mm:000000002267cc9e type:MM_ANONPAGES val:1
[ 2.559037] BUG: non-zero pgtables_bytes on freeing mm: -6144
Here the modprobe process ended up with an allocated mm_struct from the
mm_struct slab that was used before by the debug_vm_pgtable test. That is
not a problem, since the mm_stru
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: subpage: keep TOWRITE tag until folio is cleaned
btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() calls folio_start_writeback() the first time
a folio is written back, and it also clears the PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE tag
even if there are still dirty blocks in the folio. This can break ordering
guarantees, such as those required by btrfs_wait_ordered_extents().
That ordering breakage leads to a real failure. For example, running
generic/464 on a zoned setup will hit the following ASSERT. This happens
because the broken ordering fails to flush existing dirty pages before the
file size is truncated.
assertion failed: !list_empty(&ordered->list) :: 0, in fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1899
------------[ cut here ]------------
kernel BUG at fs/btrfs/zoned.c:1899!
Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 1906169 Comm: kworker/u130:2 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0-rc6-BTRFS-ZNS+ #554 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: Supermicro Super Server/H12SSL-NT, BIOS 2.0 02/22/2021
Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write btrfs_work_helper [btrfs]
RIP: 0010:btrfs_finish_ordered_zoned.cold+0x50/0x52 [btrfs]
RSP: 0018:ffffc9002efdbd60 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 000000000000004c RBX: ffff88811923c4e0 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff827e38b1 RDI: 00000000ffffffff
RBP: ffff88810005d000 R08: 00000000ffffdfff R09: ffffffff831051c8
R10: ffffffff83055220 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881c2458c00
R13: ffff88811923c540 R14: ffff88811923c5e8 R15: ffff8881c1bd9680
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88a04acd0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f907c7a918c CR3: 0000000004024000 CR4: 0000000000350ef0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
btrfs_finish_ordered_io+0x4a/0x60 [btrfs]
btrfs_work_helper+0xf9/0x490 [btrfs]
process_one_work+0x204/0x590
? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
worker_thread+0x1d6/0x3d0
? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
kthread+0x118/0x230
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x205/0x260
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Consider process A calling writepages() with WB_SYNC_NONE. In zoned mode or
for compressed writes, it locks several folios for delalloc and starts
writing them out. Let's call the last locked folio folio X. Suppose the
write range only partially covers folio X, leaving some pages dirty.
Process A calls btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() when building a bio. This
function call clears the TOWRITE tag of folio X, whose size = 8K and
the block size = 4K. It is following state.
0 4K 8K
|/////|/////| (flag: DIRTY, tag: DIRTY)
<-----> Process A will write this range.
Now suppose process B concurrently calls writepages() with WB_SYNC_ALL. It
calls tag_pages_for_writeback() to tag dirty folios with
PAGECACHE_TAG_TOWRITE. Since folio X is still dirty, it gets tagged. Then,
B collects tagged folios using filemap_get_folios_tag() and must wait for
folio X to be written before returning from writepages().
0 4K 8K
|/////|/////| (flag: DIRTY, tag: DIRTY|TOWRITE)
However, between tagging and collecting, process A may call
btrfs_subpage_set_writeback() and clear folio X's TOWRITE tag.
0 4K 8K
| |/////| (flag: DIRTY|WRITEBACK, tag: DIRTY)
As a result, process B won't see folio X in its batch, and returns without
waiting for it. This breaks the WB_SYNC_ALL ordering requirement.
Fix this by using btrfs_subpage_set_writeback_keepwrite(), which retains
the TOWRITE tag. We now manually clear the tag only after the folio becomes
clean, via the xas operation.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/hisilicon/hibmc: fix the hibmc loaded failed bug
When hibmc loaded failed, the driver use hibmc_unload to free the
resource, but the mutexes in mode.config are not init, which will
access an NULL pointer. Just change goto statement to return, because
hibnc_hw_init() doesn't need to free anything.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/sched: Make cake_enqueue return NET_XMIT_CN when past buffer_limit
The following setup can trigger a WARNING in htb_activate due to
the condition: !cl->leaf.q->q.qlen
tc qdisc del dev lo root
tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1: htb default 1
tc class add dev lo parent 1: classid 1:1 \
htb rate 64bit
tc qdisc add dev lo parent 1:1 handle f: \
cake memlimit 1b
ping -I lo -f -c1 -s64 -W0.001 127.0.0.1
This is because the low memlimit leads to a low buffer_limit, which
causes packet dropping. However, cake_enqueue still returns
NET_XMIT_SUCCESS, causing htb_enqueue to call htb_activate with an
empty child qdisc. We should return NET_XMIT_CN when packets are
dropped from the same tin and flow.
I do not believe return value of NET_XMIT_CN is necessary for packet
drops in the case of ack filtering, as that is meant to optimize
performance, not to signal congestion.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-11