Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.16 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
tracing: Free error logs of tracing instances
When a tracing instance is removed, the error messages that hold errors
that occurred in the instance needs to be freed. The following reports a
memory leak:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# mkdir instances/foo
# echo 'hist:keys=x' > instances/foo/events/sched/sched_switch/trigger
# cat instances/foo/error_log
[ 117.404795] hist:sched:sched_switch: error: Couldn't find field
Command: hist:keys=x
^
# rmdir instances/foo
Then check for memory leaks:
# echo scan > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak
unreferenced object 0xffff88810d8ec700 (size 192):
comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff 60 dd 68 61 81 88 ff ff `.ha....`.ha....
a0 30 8c 83 ff ff ff ff 26 00 0a 00 00 00 00 00 .0......&.......
backtrace:
[<00000000dae26536>] kmalloc_trace+0x2a/0xa0
[<00000000b2938940>] tracing_log_err+0x277/0x2e0
[<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
[<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
[<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
[<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
[<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
[<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
[<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
[<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
[<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
unreferenced object 0xffff888170c35a00 (size 32):
comm "bash", pid 869, jiffies 4294950577 (age 215.752s)
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
0a 20 20 43 6f 6d 6d 61 6e 64 3a 20 68 69 73 74 . Command: hist
3a 6b 65 79 73 3d 78 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :keys=x.........
backtrace:
[<000000006a747de5>] __kmalloc+0x4d/0x160
[<000000000039df5f>] tracing_log_err+0x29b/0x2e0
[<000000004a0e1b07>] parse_atom+0x966/0xb40
[<0000000023b24337>] parse_expr+0x5f3/0xdb0
[<00000000594ad074>] event_hist_trigger_parse+0x27f8/0x3560
[<00000000293a9645>] trigger_process_regex+0x135/0x1a0
[<000000005c22b4f2>] event_trigger_write+0x87/0xf0
[<000000002cadc509>] vfs_write+0x162/0x670
[<0000000059c3b9be>] ksys_write+0xca/0x170
[<00000000f1cddc00>] do_syscall_64+0x3e/0xc0
[<00000000868ac68c>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x72/0xdc
The problem is that the error log needs to be freed when the instance is
removed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: mpi3mr: Use number of bits to manage bitmap sizes
To allocate bitmaps, the mpi3mr driver calculates sizes of bitmaps using
byte as unit. However, bitmap helper functions assume that bitmaps are
allocated using unsigned long as unit. This gap causes memory access beyond
the bitmap sizes and results in "BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds". The BUG
was observed at firmware download to eHBA-9600. Call trace indicated that
the out-of-bounds access happened in find_first_zero_bit() called from
mpi3mr_send_event_ack() for miroc->evtack_cmds_bitmap.
To fix the BUG, do not use bytes to manage bitmap sizes. Instead, use
number of bits, and call bitmap helper functions which take number of bits
as arguments. For memory allocation, call bitmap_zalloc() instead of
kzalloc() and krealloc(). For memory free, call bitmap_free() instead of
kfree(). For zero clear, call bitmap_clear() instead of memset().
Remove three fields for bitmap byte sizes in struct scmd_priv which are no
longer required. Replace the field dev_handle_bitmap_sz with
dev_handle_bitmap_bits to keep number of bits of removepend_bitmap across
resize.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
cifs: prevent use-after-free by freeing the cfile later
In smb2_compound_op we have a possible use-after-free
which can cause hard to debug problems later on.
This was revealed during stress testing with KASAN enabled
kernel. Fixing it by moving the cfile free call to
a few lines below, after the usage.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/dpt: Treat the DPT BO as a framebuffer
Currently i915_gem_object_is_framebuffer() doesn't treat the
BO containing the framebuffer's DPT as a framebuffer itself.
This means eg. that the shrinker can evict the DPT BO while
leaving the actual FB BO bound, when the DPT is allocated
from regular shmem.
That causes an immediate oops during hibernate as we
try to rewrite the PTEs inside the already evicted
DPT obj.
TODO: presumably this might also be the reason for the
DPT related display faults under heavy memory pressure,
but I'm still not sure how that would happen as the object
should be pinned by intel_dpt_pin() while in active use by
the display engine...
(cherry picked from commit 779cb5ba64ec7df80675a956c9022929514f517a)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: phy: phy-tahvo: fix memory leak in tahvo_usb_probe()
Smatch reports:
drivers/usb/phy/phy-tahvo.c: tahvo_usb_probe()
warn: missing unwind goto?
After geting irq, if ret < 0, it will return without error handling to
free memory.
Just add error handling to fix this problem.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/raid10: fix null-ptr-deref of mreplace in raid10_sync_request
There are two check of 'mreplace' in raid10_sync_request(). In the first
check, 'need_replace' will be set and 'mreplace' will be used later if
no-Faulty 'mreplace' exists, In the second check, 'mreplace' will be
set to NULL if it is Faulty, but 'need_replace' will not be changed
accordingly. null-ptr-deref occurs if Faulty is set between two check.
Fix it by merging two checks into one. And replace 'need_replace' with
'mreplace' because their values are always the same.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: dcb: choose correct policy to parse DCB_ATTR_BCN
The dcbnl_bcn_setcfg uses erroneous policy to parse tb[DCB_ATTR_BCN],
which is introduced in commit 859ee3c43812 ("DCB: Add support for DCB
BCN"). Please see the comment in below code
static int dcbnl_bcn_setcfg(...)
{
...
ret = nla_parse_nested_deprecated(..., dcbnl_pfc_up_nest, .. )
// !!! dcbnl_pfc_up_nest for attributes
// DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_0 to DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_ALL in enum dcbnl_pfc_up_attrs
...
for (i = DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0; i <= DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7; i++) {
// !!! DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0 to DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7 in enum dcbnl_bcn_attrs
...
value_byte = nla_get_u8(data[i]);
...
}
...
for (i = DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0; i <= DCB_BCN_ATTR_RI; i++) {
// !!! DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0 to DCB_BCN_ATTR_RI in enum dcbnl_bcn_attrs
...
value_int = nla_get_u32(data[i]);
...
}
...
}
That is, the nla_parse_nested_deprecated uses dcbnl_pfc_up_nest
attributes to parse nlattr defined in dcbnl_pfc_up_attrs. But the
following access code fetch each nlattr as dcbnl_bcn_attrs attributes.
By looking up the associated nla_policy for dcbnl_bcn_attrs. We can find
the beginning part of these two policies are "same".
static const struct nla_policy dcbnl_pfc_up_nest[...] = {
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_0] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_1] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_2] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_3] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_4] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_5] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_6] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_7] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_PFC_UP_ATTR_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},
};
static const struct nla_policy dcbnl_bcn_nest[...] = {
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_0] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_1] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_2] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_3] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_4] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_5] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_6] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_7] = {.type = NLA_U8},
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_RP_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},
// from here is somewhat different
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0] = {.type = NLA_U32},
...
[DCB_BCN_ATTR_ALL] = {.type = NLA_FLAG},
};
Therefore, the current code is buggy and this
nla_parse_nested_deprecated could overflow the dcbnl_pfc_up_nest and use
the adjacent nla_policy to parse attributes from DCB_BCN_ATTR_BCNA_0.
Hence use the correct policy dcbnl_bcn_nest to parse the nested
tb[DCB_ATTR_BCN] TLV.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/amdgpu: fix memory leak in mes self test
The fences associated with mes queue have to be freed
up during amdgpu_ring_fini.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: fix memory leak in mlx5e_fs_tt_redirect_any_create
The memory pointed to by the fs->any pointer is not freed in the error
path of mlx5e_fs_tt_redirect_any_create, which can lead to a memory leak.
Fix by freeing the memory in the error path, thereby making the error path
identical to mlx5e_fs_tt_redirect_any_destroy().
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sctp: fix a potential overflow in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip
Currently, when traversing ifwdtsn skips with _sctp_walk_ifwdtsn, it only
checks the pos against the end of the chunk. However, the data left for
the last pos may be < sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip), and dereference
it as struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip may cause coverflow.
This patch fixes it by checking the pos against "the end of the chunk -
sizeof(struct sctp_ifwdtsn_skip)" in sctp_ifwdtsn_skip, similar to
sctp_fwdtsn_skip.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-18