Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 4.14.325 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tty: pcn_uart: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
When calling debugfs_lookup() the result must have dput() called on it,
otherwise the memory will leak over time. To make things simpler, just
call debugfs_lookup_and_remove() instead which handles all of the logic
at once.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm: fix zswap writeback race condition
The zswap writeback mechanism can cause a race condition resulting in
memory corruption, where a swapped out page gets swapped in with data that
was written to a different page.
The race unfolds like this:
1. a page with data A and swap offset X is stored in zswap
2. page A is removed off the LRU by zpool driver for writeback in
zswap-shrink work, data for A is mapped by zpool driver
3. user space program faults and invalidates page entry A, offset X is
considered free
4. kswapd stores page B at offset X in zswap (zswap could also be
full, if so, page B would then be IOed to X, then skip step 5.)
5. entry A is replaced by B in tree->rbroot, this doesn't affect the
local reference held by zswap-shrink work
6. zswap-shrink work writes back A at X, and frees zswap entry A
7. swapin of slot X brings A in memory instead of B
The fix:
Once the swap page cache has been allocated (case ZSWAP_SWAPCACHE_NEW),
zswap-shrink work just checks that the local zswap_entry reference is
still the same as the one in the tree. If it's not the same it means that
it's either been invalidated or replaced, in both cases the writeback is
aborted because the local entry contains stale data.
Reproducer:
I originally found this by running `stress` overnight to validate my work
on the zswap writeback mechanism, it manifested after hours on my test
machine. The key to make it happen is having zswap writebacks, so
whatever setup pumps /sys/kernel/debug/zswap/written_back_pages should do
the trick.
In order to reproduce this faster on a vm, I setup a system with ~100M of
available memory and a 500M swap file, then running `stress --vm 1
--vm-bytes 300000000 --vm-stride 4000` makes it happen in matter of tens
of minutes. One can speed things up even more by swinging
/sys/module/zswap/parameters/max_pool_percent up and down between, say, 20
and 1; this makes it reproduce in tens of seconds. It's crucial to set
`--vm-stride` to something other than 4096 otherwise `stress` won't
realize that memory has been corrupted because all pages would have the
same data.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
netfilter: ipset: add the missing IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro for ip_set_hash_netportnet.c
The missing IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro in ip_set_hash_netportnet can
lead to the use of wrong `CIDR_POS(c)` for calculating array offsets,
which can lead to integer underflow. As a result, it leads to slab
out-of-bound access.
This patch adds back the IP_SET_HASH_WITH_NET0 macro to
ip_set_hash_netportnet to address the issue.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vfio/type1: prevent underflow of locked_vm via exec()
When a vfio container is preserved across exec, the task does not change,
but it gets a new mm with locked_vm=0, and loses the count from existing
dma mappings. If the user later unmaps a dma mapping, locked_vm underflows
to a large unsigned value, and a subsequent dma map request fails with
ENOMEM in __account_locked_vm.
To avoid underflow, grab and save the mm at the time a dma is mapped.
Use that mm when adjusting locked_vm, rather than re-acquiring the saved
task's mm, which may have changed. If the saved mm is dead, do nothing.
locked_vm is incremented for existing mappings in a subsequent patch.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: avoid deadlock in fs reclaim with page writeback
Ext4 has a filesystem wide lock protecting ext4_writepages() calls to
avoid races with switching of journalled data flag or inode format. This
lock can however cause a deadlock like:
CPU0 CPU1
ext4_writepages()
percpu_down_read(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
ext4_change_inode_journal_flag()
percpu_down_write(sbi->s_writepages_rwsem);
- blocks, all readers block from now on
ext4_do_writepages()
ext4_init_io_end()
kmem_cache_zalloc(io_end_cachep, GFP_KERNEL)
fs_reclaim frees dentry...
dentry_unlink_inode()
iput() - last ref =>
iput_final() - inode dirty =>
write_inode_now()...
ext4_writepages() tries to acquire sbi->s_writepages_rwsem
and blocks forever
Make sure we cannot recurse into filesystem reclaim from writeback code
to avoid the deadlock.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: fix calltrace warning in amddrm_buddy_fini
The following call trace is observed when removing the amdgpu driver, which
is caused by that BOs allocated for psp are not freed until removing.
[61811.450562] RIP: 0010:amddrm_buddy_fini.cold+0x29/0x47 [amddrm_buddy]
[61811.450577] Call Trace:
[61811.450577] <TASK>
[61811.450579] amdgpu_vram_mgr_fini+0x135/0x1c0 [amdgpu]
[61811.450728] amdgpu_ttm_fini+0x207/0x290 [amdgpu]
[61811.450870] amdgpu_bo_fini+0x27/0xa0 [amdgpu]
[61811.451012] gmc_v9_0_sw_fini+0x4a/0x60 [amdgpu]
[61811.451166] amdgpu_device_fini_sw+0x117/0x520 [amdgpu]
[61811.451306] amdgpu_driver_release_kms+0x16/0x30 [amdgpu]
[61811.451447] devm_drm_dev_init_release+0x4d/0x80 [drm]
[61811.451466] devm_action_release+0x15/0x20
[61811.451469] release_nodes+0x40/0xb0
[61811.451471] devres_release_all+0x9b/0xd0
[61811.451473] __device_release_driver+0x1bb/0x2a0
[61811.451476] driver_detach+0xf3/0x140
[61811.451479] bus_remove_driver+0x6c/0xf0
[61811.451481] driver_unregister+0x31/0x60
[61811.451483] pci_unregister_driver+0x40/0x90
[61811.451486] amdgpu_exit+0x15/0x447 [amdgpu]
For smu v13_0_2, if the GPU supports xgmi, refer to
commit f5c7e7797060 ("drm/amdgpu: Adjust removal control flow for smu v13_0_2"),
it will run gpu recover in AMDGPU_RESET_FOR_DEVICE_REMOVE mode when removing,
which makes all devices in hive list have hw reset but no resume except the
basic ip blocks, then other ip blocks will not call .hw_fini according to
ip_block.status.hw.
Since psp_free_shared_bufs just includes some software operations, so move
it to psp_sw_fini.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/meson: remove drm bridges at aggregate driver unbind time
drm bridges added by meson_encoder_hdmi_init and meson_encoder_cvbs_init
were not manually removed at module unload time, which caused dangling
references to freed memory to remain linked in the global bridge_list.
When loading the driver modules back in, the same functions would again
call drm_bridge_add, and when traversing the global bridge_list, would
end up peeking into freed memory.
Once again KASAN revealed the problem:
[ +0.000095] =============================================================
[ +0.000008] BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid+0x9c/0x120
[ +0.000018] Read of size 8 at addr ffff00003da291f0 by task modprobe/2483
[ +0.000018] CPU: 3 PID: 2483 Comm: modprobe Tainted: G C O 5.19.0-rc6-lrmbkasan+ #1
[ +0.000011] Hardware name: Hardkernel ODROID-N2Plus (DT)
[ +0.000008] Call trace:
[ +0.000006] dump_backtrace+0x1ec/0x280
[ +0.000012] show_stack+0x24/0x80
[ +0.000008] dump_stack_lvl+0x98/0xd4
[ +0.000011] print_address_description.constprop.0+0x80/0x520
[ +0.000011] print_report+0x128/0x260
[ +0.000008] kasan_report+0xb8/0xfc
[ +0.000008] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x3c/0x50
[ +0.000009] __list_add_valid+0x9c/0x120
[ +0.000009] drm_bridge_add+0x6c/0x104 [drm]
[ +0.000165] dw_hdmi_probe+0x1900/0x2360 [dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000022] meson_dw_hdmi_bind+0x520/0x814 [meson_dw_hdmi]
[ +0.000014] component_bind+0x174/0x520
[ +0.000012] component_bind_all+0x1a8/0x38c
[ +0.000010] meson_drv_bind_master+0x5e8/0xb74 [meson_drm]
[ +0.000032] meson_drv_bind+0x20/0x2c [meson_drm]
[ +0.000027] try_to_bring_up_aggregate_device+0x19c/0x390
[ +0.000010] component_master_add_with_match+0x1c8/0x284
[ +0.000009] meson_drv_probe+0x274/0x280 [meson_drm]
[ +0.000026] platform_probe+0xd0/0x220
[ +0.000009] really_probe+0x3ac/0xa80
[ +0.000009] __driver_probe_device+0x1f8/0x400
[ +0.000009] driver_probe_device+0x68/0x1b0
[ +0.000009] __driver_attach+0x20c/0x480
[ +0.000008] bus_for_each_dev+0x114/0x1b0
[ +0.000009] driver_attach+0x48/0x64
[ +0.000008] bus_add_driver+0x390/0x564
[ +0.000009] driver_register+0x1a8/0x3e4
[ +0.000009] __platform_driver_register+0x6c/0x94
[ +0.000008] meson_drm_platform_driver_init+0x3c/0x1000 [meson_drm]
[ +0.000027] do_one_initcall+0xc4/0x2b0
[ +0.000011] do_init_module+0x154/0x570
[ +0.000011] load_module+0x1a78/0x1ea4
[ +0.000008] __do_sys_init_module+0x184/0x1cc
[ +0.000009] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x78/0xb0
[ +0.000009] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[ +0.000009] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xcc/0x260
[ +0.000008] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[ +0.000012] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[ +0.000008] el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
[ +0.000016] Allocated by task 879:
[ +0.000008] kasan_save_stack+0x2c/0x5c
[ +0.000011] __kasan_kmalloc+0x90/0xd0
[ +0.000007] __kmalloc+0x278/0x4a0
[ +0.000011] mpi_resize+0x13c/0x1d0
[ +0.000011] mpi_powm+0xd24/0x1570
[ +0.000009] rsa_enc+0x1a4/0x30c
[ +0.000009] pkcs1pad_verify+0x3f0/0x580
[ +0.000009] public_key_verify_signature+0x7a8/0xba4
[ +0.000010] public_key_verify_signature_2+0x40/0x60
[ +0.000008] verify_signature+0xb4/0x114
[ +0.000008] pkcs7_validate_trust_one.constprop.0+0x3b8/0x574
[ +0.000009] pkcs7_validate_trust+0xb8/0x15c
[ +0.000008] verify_pkcs7_message_sig+0xec/0x1b0
[ +0.000012] verify_pkcs7_signature+0x78/0xac
[ +0.000007] mod_verify_sig+0x110/0x190
[ +0.000009] module_sig_check+0x114/0x1e0
[ +0.000009] load_module+0xa0/0x1ea4
[ +0.000008] __do_sys_init_module+0x184/0x1cc
[ +0.000008] __arm64_sys_init_module+0x78/0xb0
[ +0.000008] invoke_syscall+0x74/0x260
[ +0.000009] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x1a8/0x260
[ +0.000008] do_el0_svc+0x50/0x70
[ +0.000007] el0_svc+0x68/0x1a0
[ +0.000009] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
[ +0.000009] el0t_64
---truncated---
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/msm: Make .remove and .shutdown HW shutdown consistent
Drivers' .remove and .shutdown callbacks are executed on different code
paths. The former is called when a device is removed from the bus, while
the latter is called at system shutdown time to quiesce the device.
This means that some overlap exists between the two, because both have to
take care of properly shutting down the hardware. But currently the logic
used in these two callbacks isn't consistent in msm drivers, which could
lead to kernel panic.
For example, on .remove the component is deleted and its .unbind callback
leads to the hardware being shutdown but only if the DRM device has been
marked as registered.
That check doesn't exist in the .shutdown logic and this can lead to the
driver calling drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() for a DRM device that hasn't
been properly initialized.
A situation like this can happen if drivers for expected sub-devices fail
to probe, since the .bind callback will never be executed. If that is the
case, drm_atomic_helper_shutdown() will attempt to take mutexes that are
only initialized if drm_mode_config_init() is called during a device bind.
This bug was attempted to be fixed in commit 623f279c7781 ("drm/msm: fix
shutdown hook in case GPU components failed to bind"), but unfortunately
it still happens in some cases as the one mentioned above, i.e:
systemd-shutdown[1]: Powering off.
kvm: exiting hardware virtualization
platform wifi-firmware.0: Removing from iommu group 12
platform video-firmware.0: Removing from iommu group 10
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: CPU: 6 PID: 1 at drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modeset_lock.c:317 drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx+0x3c4/0x3d0
...
Hardware name: Google CoachZ (rev3+) (DT)
pstate: a0400009 (NzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx+0x3c4/0x3d0
lr : drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx+0x48/0x3d0
sp : ffff80000805bb80
x29: ffff80000805bb80 x28: ffff327c00128000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffc95d820ec030
x23: ffff327c00bbd090 x22: ffffc95d8215eca0 x21: ffff327c039c5800
x20: ffff327c039c5988 x19: ffff80000805bbe8 x18: 0000000000000034
x17: 000000040044ffff x16: ffffc95d80cac920 x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000315 x13: 0000000000000315 x12: 0000000000000000
x11: 0000000000000000 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : ffff80000805bc28 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 0000000000000000
x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000000
x2 : ffff327c00128000 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : ffff327c039c59b0
Call trace:
drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx+0x3c4/0x3d0
drm_atomic_helper_shutdown+0x70/0x134
msm_drv_shutdown+0x30/0x40
platform_shutdown+0x28/0x40
device_shutdown+0x148/0x350
kernel_power_off+0x38/0x80
__do_sys_reboot+0x288/0x2c0
__arm64_sys_reboot+0x28/0x34
invoke_syscall+0x48/0x114
el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x44/0xec
do_el0_svc+0x2c/0xc0
el0_svc+0x2c/0x84
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x11c/0x150
el0t_64_sync+0x18c/0x190
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000018
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
CM = 0, WnR = 0
user pgtable: 4k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=000000010eab1000
[0000000000000018] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000
Internal error: Oops: 96000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
...
Hardware name: Google CoachZ (rev3+) (DT)
pstate: a0400009 (NzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : ww_mutex_lock+0x28/0x32c
lr : drm_modeset_lock_all_ctx+0x1b0/0x3d0
sp : ffff80000805bb50
x29: ffff80000805bb50 x28: ffff327c00128000 x27: 0000000000000000
x26: 00000
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
regulator: core: fix use_count leakage when handling boot-on
I found a use_count leakage towards supply regulator of rdev with
boot-on option.
┌───────────────────┐ ┌───────────────────┐
│ regulator_dev A │ │ regulator_dev B │
│ (boot-on) │ │ (boot-on) │
│ use_count=0 │◀──supply──│ use_count=1 │
│ │ │ │
└───────────────────┘ └───────────────────┘
In case of rdev(A) configured with `regulator-boot-on', the use_count
of supplying regulator(B) will increment inside
regulator_enable(rdev->supply).
Thus, B will acts like always-on, and further balanced
regulator_enable/disable cannot actually disable it anymore.
However, B was also configured with `regulator-boot-on', we wish it
could be disabled afterwards.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/mediatek: Fix crash on isr after kexec()
If the system is rebooted via isr(), the IRQ handler might
be triggered before the domain is initialized. Resulting on
an invalid memory access error.
Fix:
[ 0.500930] Unable to handle kernel read from unreadable memory at virtual address 0000000000000070
[ 0.501166] Call trace:
[ 0.501174] report_iommu_fault+0x28/0xfc
[ 0.501180] mtk_iommu_isr+0x10c/0x1c0
[ joro: Fixed spelling in commit message ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-15