Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.1.20 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drivers: staging: rtl8723bs: Fix locking in _rtw_join_timeout_handler()
Commit 041879b12ddb ("drivers: staging: rtl8192bs: Fix deadlock in
rtw_joinbss_event_prehandle()") besides fixing the deadlock also
modified _rtw_join_timeout_handler() to use spin_[un]lock_irq()
instead of spin_[un]lock_bh().
_rtw_join_timeout_handler() calls rtw_do_join() which takes
pmlmepriv->scanned_queue.lock using spin_[un]lock_bh(). This
spin_unlock_bh() call re-enables softirqs which triggers an oops in
kernel/softirq.c: __local_bh_enable_ip() when it calls
lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled():
[ 244.506087] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at kernel/softirq.c:376 __local_bh_enable_ip+0xa6/0x100
...
[ 244.509022] Call Trace:
[ 244.509048] <IRQ>
[ 244.509100] _rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x134/0x170 [r8723bs]
[ 244.509468] ? __pfx__rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x10/0x10 [r8723bs]
[ 244.509772] ? __pfx__rtw_join_timeout_handler+0x10/0x10 [r8723bs]
[ 244.510076] call_timer_fn+0x95/0x2a0
[ 244.510200] __run_timers.part.0+0x1da/0x2d0
This oops is causd by the switch to spin_[un]lock_irq() which disables
the IRQs for the entire duration of _rtw_join_timeout_handler().
Disabling the IRQs is not necessary since all code taking this lock
runs from either user contexts or from softirqs, switch back to
spin_[un]lock_bh() to fix this.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: add bounds checking in get_max_inline_xattr_value_size()
Normally the extended attributes in the inode body would have been
checked when the inode is first opened, but if someone is writing to
the block device while the file system is mounted, it's possible for
the inode table to get corrupted. Add bounds checking to avoid
reading beyond the end of allocated memory if this happens.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Return the firmware result upon destroying QP/RQ
Previously when destroying a QP/RQ, the result of the firmware
destruction function was ignored and upper layers weren't informed
about the failure.
Which in turn could lead to various problems since when upper layer
isn't aware of the failure it continues its operation thinking that the
related QP/RQ was successfully destroyed while it actually wasn't,
which could lead to the below kernel WARN.
Currently, we return the correct firmware destruction status to upper
layers which in case of the RQ would be mlx5_ib_destroy_wq() which
was already capable of handling RQ destruction failure or in case of
a QP to destroy_qp_common(), which now would actually warn upon qp
destruction failure.
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 995 at drivers/infiniband/core/rdma_core.c:940 uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]
Modules linked in: xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm ib_umad ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm mlx5_ib ib_uverbs ib_core overlay mlx5_core fuse
CPU: 3 PID: 995 Comm: python3 Not tainted 5.16.0-rc5+ #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0xcb/0xe0 [ib_uverbs]
Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e e9 44 34 f0 e0 48 89 df e8 4c 77 ff ff 49 8b 86 10 01 00 00 48 85 c0 74 a1 4c 89 e7 ff d0 eb 9a 0f 0b eb c1 <0f> 0b be 04 00 00 00 48 89 df e8 b6 f6 ff ff e9 75 ff ff ff 90 0f
RSP: 0018:ffff8881533e3e78 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: ffff88811b2cf3e0 RBX: ffff888106209700 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888106209780 RSI: ffff8881533e3d30 RDI: ffff888109b101a0
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: ffff888127cb381c R09: 0de9890000000009
R10: ffff888127cb3800 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888106209780
R13: ffff888106209750 R14: ffff888100f20660 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 00007f8be353b740(0000) GS:ffff88852c980000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f8bd5b117c0 CR3: 000000012cd8a004 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ib_uverbs_close+0x1a/0x90 [ib_uverbs]
__fput+0x82/0x230
task_work_run+0x59/0x90
exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x138/0x140
syscall_exit_to_user_mode+0x1d/0x50
? __x64_sys_close+0xe/0x40
do_syscall_64+0x4a/0x90
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae
RIP: 0033:0x7f8be3ae0abb
Code: 03 00 00 00 0f 05 48 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 41 c3 48 83 ec 18 89 7c 24 0c e8 83 43 f9 ff 8b 7c 24 0c 41 89 c0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 89 44 24 0c e8 c1 43 f9 ff 8b 44
RSP: 002b:00007ffdb51909c0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000003
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000557bb7f7c020 RCX: 00007f8be3ae0abb
RDX: 0000557bb7c74010 RSI: 0000557bb7f14ca0 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: 0000557bb7fbd598 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000557bb7fbd5b8
R13: 0000557bb7fbd5a8 R14: 0000000000001000 R15: 0000557bb7f7c020
</TASK>
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usb: cdns3: Put the cdns set active part outside the spin lock
The device may be scheduled during the resume process,
so this cannot appear in atomic operations. Since
pm_runtime_set_active will resume suppliers, put set
active outside the spin lock, which is only used to
protect the struct cdns data structure, otherwise the
kernel will report the following warning:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/base/power/runtime.c:1163
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 651, name: sh
preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
CPU: 0 PID: 651 Comm: sh Tainted: G WC 6.1.20 #1
Hardware name: Freescale i.MX8QM MEK (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace.part.0+0xe0/0xf0
show_stack+0x18/0x30
dump_stack_lvl+0x64/0x80
dump_stack+0x1c/0x38
__might_resched+0x1fc/0x240
__might_sleep+0x68/0xc0
__pm_runtime_resume+0x9c/0xe0
rpm_get_suppliers+0x68/0x1b0
__pm_runtime_set_status+0x298/0x560
cdns_resume+0xb0/0x1c0
cdns3_controller_resume.isra.0+0x1e0/0x250
cdns3_plat_resume+0x28/0x40
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/client: Fix memory leak in drm_client_modeset_probe
When a new mode is set to modeset->mode, the previous mode should be freed.
This fixes the following kmemleak report:
drm_mode_duplicate+0x45/0x220 [drm]
drm_client_modeset_probe+0x944/0xf50 [drm]
__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock+0xb4/0x2c0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_fbdev_client_hotplug+0x2bc/0x4d0 [drm_kms_helper]
drm_client_register+0x169/0x240 [drm]
ast_pci_probe+0x142/0x190 [ast]
local_pci_probe+0xdc/0x180
work_for_cpu_fn+0x4e/0xa0
process_one_work+0x8b7/0x1540
worker_thread+0x70a/0xed0
kthread+0x29f/0x340
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: ena: fix shift-out-of-bounds in exponential backoff
The ENA adapters on our instances occasionally reset. Once recently
logged a UBSAN failure to console in the process:
UBSAN: shift-out-of-bounds in build/linux/drivers/net/ethernet/amazon/ena/ena_com.c:540:13
shift exponent 32 is too large for 32-bit type 'unsigned int'
CPU: 28 PID: 70012 Comm: kworker/u72:2 Kdump: loaded not tainted 5.15.117
Hardware name: Amazon EC2 c5d.9xlarge/, BIOS 1.0 10/16/2017
Workqueue: ena ena_fw_reset_device [ena]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x4a/0x63
dump_stack+0x10/0x16
ubsan_epilogue+0x9/0x36
__ubsan_handle_shift_out_of_bounds.cold+0x61/0x10e
? __const_udelay+0x43/0x50
ena_delay_exponential_backoff_us.cold+0x16/0x1e [ena]
wait_for_reset_state+0x54/0xa0 [ena]
ena_com_dev_reset+0xc8/0x110 [ena]
ena_down+0x3fe/0x480 [ena]
ena_destroy_device+0xeb/0xf0 [ena]
ena_fw_reset_device+0x30/0x50 [ena]
process_one_work+0x22b/0x3d0
worker_thread+0x4d/0x3f0
? process_one_work+0x3d0/0x3d0
kthread+0x12a/0x150
? set_kthread_struct+0x50/0x50
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>
Apparently, the reset delays are getting so large they can trigger a
UBSAN panic.
Looking at the code, the current timeout is capped at 5000us. Using a
base value of 100us, the current code will overflow after (1<<29). Even
at values before 32, this function wraps around, perhaps
unintentionally.
Cap the value of the exponent used for this backoff at (1<<16) which is
larger than currently necessary, but large enough to support bigger
values in the future.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
Drivers: vmbus: Check for channel allocation before looking up relids
relid2channel() assumes vmbus channel array to be allocated when called.
However, in cases such as kdump/kexec, not all relids will be reset by the host.
When the second kernel boots and if the guest receives a vmbus interrupt during
vmbus driver initialization before vmbus_connect() is called, before it finishes,
or if it fails, the vmbus interrupt service routine is called which in turn calls
relid2channel() and can cause a null pointer dereference.
Print a warning and error out in relid2channel() for a channel id that's invalid
in the second kernel.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ALSA: hda: fix a possible null-pointer dereference due to data race in snd_hdac_regmap_sync()
The variable codec->regmap is often protected by the lock
codec->regmap_lock when is accessed. However, it is accessed without
holding the lock when is accessed in snd_hdac_regmap_sync():
if (codec->regmap)
In my opinion, this may be a harmful race, because if codec->regmap is
set to NULL right after the condition is checked, a null-pointer
dereference can occur in the called function regcache_sync():
map->lock(map->lock_arg); --> Line 360 in drivers/base/regmap/regcache.c
To fix this possible null-pointer dereference caused by data race, the
mutex_lock coverage is extended to protect the if statement as well as the
function call to regcache_sync().
[ Note: the lack of the regmap_lock itself is harmless for the current
codec driver implementations, as snd_hdac_regmap_sync() is only for
PM runtime resume that is prohibited during the codec probe.
But the change makes the whole code more consistent, so it's merged
as is -- tiwai ]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ubifs: Free memory for tmpfile name
When opening a ubifs tmpfile on an encrypted directory, function
fscrypt_setup_filename allocates memory for the name that is to be
stored in the directory entry, but after the name has been copied to the
directory entry inode, the memory is not freed.
When running kmemleak on it we see that it is registered as a leak. The
report below is triggered by a simple program 'tmpfile' just opening a
tmpfile:
unreferenced object 0xffff88810178f380 (size 32):
comm "tmpfile", pid 509, jiffies 4294934744 (age 1524.742s)
backtrace:
__kmem_cache_alloc_node
__kmalloc
fscrypt_setup_filename
ubifs_tmpfile
vfs_tmpfile
path_openat
Free this memory after it has been copied to the inode.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue
System crash when qla2x00_start_sp(sp) returns error code EGAIN and wake_up
gets called for uninitialized wait queue sp->nvme_ls_waitq.
qla2xxx [0000:37:00.1]-2121:5: Returning existing qpair of ffff8ae2c0513400 for idx=0
qla2xxx [0000:37:00.1]-700e:5: qla2x00_start_sp failed = 11
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
Hardware name: HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/ProLiant DL360 Gen10, BIOS U32 09/03/2021
Workqueue: nvme-wq nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work [nvme_fc]
RIP: 0010:__wake_up_common+0x4c/0x190
RSP: 0018:ffff95f3e0cb7cd0 EFLAGS: 00010086
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8b08d3b26328 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000003 RDI: ffff8b08d3b26320
RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffffffffffe8
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffff95f3e0cb7a60 R12: ffff95f3e0cb7d20
R13: 0000000000000003 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8b2fdf6c0000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000002f1e410002 CR4: 00000000007706e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
__wake_up_common_lock+0x7c/0xc0
qla_nvme_ls_req+0x355/0x4c0 [qla2xxx]
? __nvme_fc_send_ls_req+0x260/0x380 [nvme_fc]
? nvme_fc_send_ls_req.constprop.42+0x1a/0x45 [nvme_fc]
? nvme_fc_connect_ctrl_work.cold.63+0x1e3/0xa7d [nvme_fc]
Remove unused nvme_ls_waitq wait queue. nvme_ls_waitq logic was removed
previously in the commits tagged Fixed: below.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-09-16