Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.0.9 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ntb_netdev: Use dev_kfree_skb_any() in interrupt context
TX/RX callback handlers (ntb_netdev_tx_handler(),
ntb_netdev_rx_handler()) can be called in interrupt
context via the DMA framework when the respective
DMA operations have completed. As such, any calls
by these routines to free skb's, should use the
interrupt context safe dev_kfree_skb_any() function.
Previously, these callback handlers would call the
interrupt unsafe version of dev_kfree_skb(). This has
not presented an issue on Intel IOAT DMA engines as
that driver utilizes tasklets rather than a hard
interrupt handler, like the AMD PTDMA DMA driver.
On AMD systems, a kernel WARNING message is
encountered, which is being issued from
skb_release_head_state() due to in_hardirq()
being true.
Besides the user visible WARNING from the kernel,
the other symptom of this bug was that TCP/IP performance
across the ntb_netdev interface was very poor, i.e.
approximately an order of magnitude below what was
expected. With the repair to use dev_kfree_skb_any(),
kernel WARNINGs from skb_release_head_state() ceased
and TCP/IP performance, as measured by iperf, was on
par with expected results, approximately 20 Gb/s on
AMD Milan based server. Note that this performance
is comparable with Intel based servers.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
rtc: class: Fix potential memleak in devm_rtc_allocate_device()
devm_rtc_allocate_device() will alloc a rtc_device first, and then run
dev_set_name(). If dev_set_name() failed, the rtc_device will memleak.
Move devm_add_action_or_reset() in front of dev_set_name() to prevent
memleak.
unreferenced object 0xffff888110a53000 (size 2048):
comm "python3", pid 470, jiffies 4296078308 (age 58.882s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 08 30 a5 10 81 88 ff ff .........0......
08 30 a5 10 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 .0..............
backtrace:
[<000000004aac0364>] kmalloc_trace+0x21/0x110
[<000000000ff02202>] devm_rtc_allocate_device+0xd4/0x400
[<000000001bdf5639>] devm_rtc_device_register+0x1a/0x80
[<00000000351bf81c>] rx4581_probe+0xdd/0x110 [rtc_rx4581]
[<00000000f0eba0ae>] spi_probe+0xde/0x130
[<00000000bff89ee8>] really_probe+0x175/0x3f0
[<00000000128e8d84>] __driver_probe_device+0xe6/0x170
[<00000000ee5bf913>] device_driver_attach+0x32/0x80
[<00000000f3f28f92>] bind_store+0x10b/0x1a0
[<000000009ff812d8>] drv_attr_store+0x49/0x70
[<000000008139c323>] sysfs_kf_write+0x8d/0xb0
[<00000000b6146e01>] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x214/0x2d0
[<00000000ecbe3895>] vfs_write+0x61a/0x7d0
[<00000000aa2196ea>] ksys_write+0xc8/0x190
[<0000000046a600f5>] do_syscall_64+0x37/0x90
[<00000000541a336f>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nilfs2: fix shift-out-of-bounds/overflow in nilfs_sb2_bad_offset()
Patch series "nilfs2: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warnings on mount
time".
The first patch fixes a bug reported by syzbot, and the second one fixes
the remaining bug of the same kind. Although they are triggered by the
same super block data anomaly, I divided it into the above two because the
details of the issues and how to fix it are different.
Both are required to eliminate the shift-out-of-bounds issues at mount
time.
This patch (of 2):
If the block size exponent information written in an on-disk superblock is
corrupted, nilfs_sb2_bad_offset helper function can trigger
shift-out-of-bounds warning followed by a kernel panic (if panic_on_warn
is set):
shift exponent 38983 is too large for 64-bit type 'unsigned long long'
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x1b1/0x28e lib/dump_stack.c:106
ubsan_epilogue lib/ubsan.c:151 [inline]
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds+0x33d/0x3b0 lib/ubsan.c:322
nilfs_sb2_bad_offset fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:449 [inline]
nilfs_load_super_block+0xdf5/0xe00 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:523
init_nilfs+0xb7/0x7d0 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c:577
nilfs_fill_super+0xb1/0x5d0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:1047
nilfs_mount+0x613/0x9b0 fs/nilfs2/super.c:1317
...
In addition, since nilfs_sb2_bad_offset() performs multiplication without
considering the upper bound, the computation may overflow if the disk
layout parameters are not normal.
This fixes these issues by inserting preliminary sanity checks for those
parameters and by converting the comparison from one involving
multiplication and left bit-shifting to one using division and right
bit-shifting.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cxl: fix possible null-ptr-deref in cxl_guest_init_afu|adapter()
If device_register() fails in cxl_register_afu|adapter(), the device
is not added, device_unregister() can not be called in the error path,
otherwise it will cause a null-ptr-deref because of removing not added
device.
As comment of device_register() says, it should use put_device() to give
up the reference in the error path. So split device_unregister() into
device_del() and put_device(), then goes to put dev when register fails.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
IB/mad: Don't call to function that might sleep while in atomic context
Tracepoints are not allowed to sleep, as such the following splat is
generated due to call to ib_query_pkey() in atomic context.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 at kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:2492 rb_commit+0xc1/0x220
CPU: 0 PID: 1888000 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-305.3.1.el8.x86_64 #1
Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.13.0-2.module_el8.3.0+555+a55c8938 04/01/2014
Workqueue: ib-comp-unb-wq ib_cq_poll_work [ib_core]
RIP: 0010:rb_commit+0xc1/0x220
RSP: 0000:ffffa8ac80f9bca0 EFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: ffff8951c7c01300 RBX: ffff8951c7c14a00 RCX: 0000000000000246
RDX: ffff8951c707c000 RSI: ffff8951c707c57c RDI: ffff8951c7c14a00
RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff8951c7c01300 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000246
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffffffff964c70c0 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8951fbc00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f20e8f39010 CR3: 000000002ca10005 CR4: 0000000000170ef0
Call Trace:
ring_buffer_unlock_commit+0x1d/0xa0
trace_buffer_unlock_commit_regs+0x3b/0x1b0
trace_event_buffer_commit+0x67/0x1d0
trace_event_raw_event_ib_mad_recv_done_handler+0x11c/0x160 [ib_core]
ib_mad_recv_done+0x48b/0xc10 [ib_core]
? trace_event_raw_event_cq_poll+0x6f/0xb0 [ib_core]
__ib_process_cq+0x91/0x1c0 [ib_core]
ib_cq_poll_work+0x26/0x80 [ib_core]
process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
worker_thread+0x30/0x390
? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
kthread+0x116/0x130
? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
---[ end trace 78ba8509d3830a16 ]---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cpufreq: Init completion before kobject_init_and_add()
In cpufreq_policy_alloc(), it will call uninitialed completion in
cpufreq_sysfs_release() when kobject_init_and_add() fails. And
that will cause a crash such as the following page fault in complete:
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: fffffffffffffff8
[..]
RIP: 0010:complete+0x98/0x1f0
[..]
Call Trace:
kobject_put+0x1be/0x4c0
cpufreq_online.cold+0xee/0x1fd
cpufreq_add_dev+0x183/0x1e0
subsys_interface_register+0x3f5/0x4e0
cpufreq_register_driver+0x3b7/0x670
acpi_cpufreq_init+0x56c/0x1000 [acpi_cpufreq]
do_one_initcall+0x13d/0x780
do_init_module+0x1c3/0x630
load_module+0x6e67/0x73b0
__do_sys_finit_module+0x181/0x240
do_syscall_64+0x35/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0xcd
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
macintosh: fix possible memory leak in macio_add_one_device()
Afer commit 1fa5ae857bb1 ("driver core: get rid of struct device's
bus_id string array"), the name of device is allocated dynamically. It
needs to be freed when of_device_register() fails. Call put_device() to
give up the reference that's taken in device_initialize(), so that it
can be freed in kobject_cleanup() when the refcount hits 0.
macio device is freed in macio_release_dev(), so the kfree() can be
removed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
qed: Don't collect too many protection override GRC elements
In the protection override dump path, the firmware can return far too
many GRC elements, resulting in attempting to write past the end of the
previously-kmalloc'ed dump buffer.
This will result in a kernel panic with reason:
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ADDRESS
where "ADDRESS" is just past the end of the protection override dump
buffer. The start address of the buffer is:
p_hwfn->cdev->dbg_features[DBG_FEATURE_PROTECTION_OVERRIDE].dump_buf
and the size of the buffer is buf_size in the same data structure.
The panic can be arrived at from either the qede Ethernet driver path:
[exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc02662ed [qed]
qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc0267792 [qed]
qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc026aa8f [qed]
qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc026b211 [qed]
qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc027298a [qed]
devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff82497f61
devlink_health_report at ffffffff8249cf29
qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0272baf [qed]
qede_sp_task at ffffffffc045ed32 [qede]
process_one_work at ffffffff81d19783
or the qedf storage driver path:
[exception RIP: qed_grc_dump_addr_range+0x108]
qed_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068b2ed [qed]
qed_dbg_protection_override_dump at ffffffffc068c792 [qed]
qed_dbg_feature at ffffffffc068fa8f [qed]
qed_dbg_all_data at ffffffffc0690211 [qed]
qed_fw_fatal_reporter_dump at ffffffffc069798a [qed]
devlink_health_do_dump at ffffffff8aa95e51
devlink_health_report at ffffffff8aa9ae19
qed_report_fatal_error at ffffffffc0697baf [qed]
qed_hw_err_notify at ffffffffc06d32d7 [qed]
qed_spq_post at ffffffffc06b1011 [qed]
qed_fcoe_destroy_conn at ffffffffc06b2e91 [qed]
qedf_cleanup_fcport at ffffffffc05e7597 [qedf]
qedf_rport_event_handler at ffffffffc05e7bf7 [qedf]
fc_rport_work at ffffffffc02da715 [libfc]
process_one_work at ffffffff8a319663
Resolve this by clamping the firmware's return value to the maximum
number of legal elements the firmware should return.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
um: virtio_uml: Fix use-after-free after put_device in probe
When register_virtio_device() fails in virtio_uml_probe(),
the code sets vu_dev->registered = 1 even though
the device was not successfully registered.
This can lead to use-after-free or other issues.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: wilc1000: avoid buffer overflow in WID string configuration
Fix the following copy overflow warning identified by Smatch checker.
drivers/net/wireless/microchip/wilc1000/wlan_cfg.c:184 wilc_wlan_parse_response_frame()
error: '__memcpy()' 'cfg->s[i]->str' copy overflow (512 vs 65537)
This patch introduces size check before accessing the memory buffer.
The checks are base on the WID type of received data from the firmware.
For WID string configuration, the size limit is determined by individual
element size in 'struct wilc_cfg_str_vals' that is maintained in 'len' field
of 'struct wilc_cfg_str'.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-10-04