Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 5.4.153 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
futex: Clear stale exiting pointer in futex_lock_pi() retry path
Fuzzying/stressing futexes triggered:
WARNING: kernel/futex/core.c:825 at wait_for_owner_exiting+0x7a/0x80, CPU#11: futex_lock_pi_s/524
When futex_lock_pi_atomic() sees the owner is exiting, it returns -EBUSY
and stores a refcounted task pointer in 'exiting'.
After wait_for_owner_exiting() consumes that reference, the local pointer
is never reset to nil. Upon a retry, if futex_lock_pi_atomic() returns a
different error, the bogus pointer is passed to wait_for_owner_exiting().
CPU0 CPU1 CPU2
futex_lock_pi(uaddr)
// acquires the PI futex
exit()
futex_cleanup_begin()
futex_state = EXITING;
futex_lock_pi(uaddr)
futex_lock_pi_atomic()
attach_to_pi_owner()
// observes EXITING
*exiting = owner; // takes ref
return -EBUSY
wait_for_owner_exiting(-EBUSY, owner)
put_task_struct(); // drops ref
// exiting still points to owner
goto retry;
futex_lock_pi_atomic()
lock_pi_update_atomic()
cmpxchg(uaddr)
*uaddr ^= WAITERS // whatever
// value changed
return -EAGAIN;
wait_for_owner_exiting(-EAGAIN, exiting) // stale
WARN_ON_ONCE(exiting)
Fix this by resetting upon retry, essentially aligning it with requeue_pi.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
NFC: nxp-nci: allow GPIOs to sleep
Allow the firmware and enable GPIOs to sleep.
This fixes a `WARN_ON' and allows the driver to operate GPIOs which are
connected to I2C GPIO expanders.
-- >8 --
kernel: WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2636 at drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c:3880 gpiod_set_value+0x88/0x98
-- >8 --
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: bonding: fix NULL deref in bond_debug_rlb_hash_show
rlb_clear_slave intentionally keeps RLB hash-table entries on
the rx_hashtbl_used_head list with slave set to NULL when no
replacement slave is available. However, bond_debug_rlb_hash_show
visites client_info->slave without checking if it's NULL.
Other used-list iterators in bond_alb.c already handle this NULL-slave
state safely:
- rlb_update_client returns early on !client_info->slave
- rlb_req_update_slave_clients, rlb_clear_slave, and rlb_rebalance
compare slave values before visiting
- lb_req_update_subnet_clients continues if slave is NULL
The following NULL deref crash can be trigger in
bond_debug_rlb_hash_show:
[ 1.289791] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 1.292058] RIP: 0010:bond_debug_rlb_hash_show (drivers/net/bonding/bond_debugfs.c:41)
[ 1.293101] RSP: 0018:ffffc900004a7d00 EFLAGS: 00010286
[ 1.293333] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888102b48200 RCX: ffff888102b48204
[ 1.293631] RDX: ffff888102b48200 RSI: ffffffff839daad5 RDI: ffff888102815078
[ 1.293924] RBP: ffff888102815078 R08: ffff888102b4820e R09: 0000000000000000
[ 1.294267] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff888100f929c0
[ 1.294564] R13: ffff888100f92a00 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffc900004a7ed8
[ 1.294864] FS: 0000000001395380(0000) GS:ffff888196e75000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 1.295239] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 1.295480] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000102adc004 CR4: 0000000000772ef0
[ 1.295897] Call Trace:
[ 1.296134] seq_read_iter (fs/seq_file.c:231)
[ 1.296341] seq_read (fs/seq_file.c:164)
[ 1.296493] full_proxy_read (fs/debugfs/file.c:378 (discriminator 1))
[ 1.296658] vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:572)
[ 1.296981] ksys_read (fs/read_write.c:717)
[ 1.297132] do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 (discriminator 1) arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 (discriminator 1))
[ 1.297325] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
Add a NULL check and print "(none)" for entries with no assigned slave.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
wifi: cfg80211: cancel pmsr_free_wk in cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down
When the nl80211 socket that originated a PMSR request is
closed, cfg80211_release_pmsr() sets the request's nl_portid
to zero and schedules pmsr_free_wk to process the abort
asynchronously. If the interface is concurrently torn down
before that work runs, cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down() calls
cfg80211_pmsr_process_abort() directly. However, the already-
scheduled pmsr_free_wk work item remains pending and may run
after the interface has been removed from the driver. This
could cause the driver's abort_pmsr callback to operate on a
torn-down interface, leading to undefined behavior and
potential crashes.
Cancel pmsr_free_wk synchronously in cfg80211_pmsr_wdev_down()
before calling cfg80211_pmsr_process_abort(). This ensures any
pending or in-progress work is drained before interface teardown
proceeds, preventing the work from invoking the driver abort
callback after the interface is gone.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
drm/i915/gt: Check set_default_submission() before deferencing
When the i915 driver firmware binaries are not present, the
set_default_submission pointer is not set. This pointer is
dereferenced during suspend anyways.
Add a check to make sure it is set before dereferencing.
[ 23.289926] PM: suspend entry (deep)
[ 23.293558] Filesystems sync: 0.000 seconds
[ 23.298010] Freezing user space processes
[ 23.302771] Freezing user space processes completed (elapsed 0.000 seconds)
[ 23.309766] OOM killer disabled.
[ 23.313027] Freezing remaining freezable tasks
[ 23.318540] Freezing remaining freezable tasks completed (elapsed 0.001 seconds)
[ 23.342038] serial 00:05: disabled
[ 23.345719] serial 00:02: disabled
[ 23.349342] serial 00:01: disabled
[ 23.353782] sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 23.358993] sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Synchronizing SCSI cache
[ 23.361635] ata1.00: Entering standby power mode
[ 23.368863] ata2.00: Entering standby power mode
[ 23.445187] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
[ 23.452194] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[ 23.457896] #PF: error_code(0x0010) - not-present page
[ 23.463065] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 23.465640] Oops: Oops: 0010 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 23.469869] CPU: 8 UID: 0 PID: 211 Comm: kworker/u48:18 Tainted: G S W 6.19.0-rc4-00020-gf0b9d8eb98df #10 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[ 23.482512] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
[ 23.496511] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn
[ 23.501087] RIP: 0010:0x0
[ 23.503755] Code: Unable to access opcode bytes at 0xffffffffffffffd6.
[ 23.510324] RSP: 0018:ffffb4a60065fca8 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 23.515592] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9f428290e000 RCX: 000000000000000f
[ 23.522765] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff9f428290e000
[ 23.529937] RBP: ffff9f4282907070 R08: ffff9f4281130428 R09: 00000000ffffffff
[ 23.537111] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff9f42829070f8
[ 23.544284] R13: ffff9f4282906028 R14: ffff9f4282900000 R15: ffff9f4282906b68
[ 23.551457] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f466b2cf000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 23.559588] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 23.565365] CR2: ffffffffffffffd6 CR3: 000000031c230001 CR4: 0000000000f70ef0
[ 23.572539] PKRU: 55555554
[ 23.575281] Call Trace:
[ 23.577770] <TASK>
[ 23.579905] intel_engines_reset_default_submission+0x42/0x60
[ 23.585695] __intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x191/0x200
[ 23.590360] intel_gt_unset_wedged+0x20/0x40
[ 23.594675] gt_sanitize+0x15e/0x170
[ 23.598290] i915_gem_suspend_late+0x6b/0x180
[ 23.602692] i915_drm_suspend_late+0x35/0xf0
[ 23.607008] ? __pfx_pci_pm_suspend_late+0x10/0x10
[ 23.611843] dpm_run_callback+0x78/0x1c0
[ 23.615817] device_suspend_late+0xde/0x2e0
[ 23.620037] async_suspend_late+0x18/0x30
[ 23.624082] async_run_entry_fn+0x25/0xa0
[ 23.628129] process_one_work+0x15b/0x380
[ 23.632182] worker_thread+0x2a5/0x3c0
[ 23.635973] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 23.640279] kthread+0xf6/0x1f0
[ 23.643464] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 23.647263] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 23.651045] ret_from_fork+0x131/0x190
[ 23.654837] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 23.658634] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 23.662597] </TASK>
[ 23.664826] Modules linked in:
[ 23.667914] CR2: 0000000000000000
[ 23.671271] ------------[ cut here ]------------
(cherry picked from commit daa199abc3d3d1740c9e3a2c3e9216ae5b447cad)
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-24
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ipv4: nexthop: allocate skb dynamically in rtm_get_nexthop()
When querying a nexthop object via RTM_GETNEXTHOP, the kernel currently
allocates a fixed-size skb using NLMSG_GOODSIZE. While sufficient for
single nexthops and small Equal-Cost Multi-Path groups, this fixed
allocation fails for large nexthop groups like 512 nexthops.
This results in the following warning splat:
WARNING: net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3395 at rtm_get_nexthop+0x176/0x1c0, CPU#20: rep/4608
[...]
RIP: 0010:rtm_get_nexthop (net/ipv4/nexthop.c:3395)
[...]
Call Trace:
<TASK>
rtnetlink_rcv_msg (net/core/rtnetlink.c:6989)
netlink_rcv_skb (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2550)
netlink_unicast (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1319 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1344)
netlink_sendmsg (net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1894)
____sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:721 net/socket.c:736 net/socket.c:2585)
___sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2641)
__sys_sendmsg (net/socket.c:2671)
do_syscall_64 (arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94)
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:130)
</TASK>
Fix this by allocating the size dynamically using nh_nlmsg_size() and
using nlmsg_new(), this is consistent with nexthop_notify() behavior. In
addition, adjust nh_nlmsg_size_grp() so it calculates the size needed
based on flags passed. While at it, also add the size of NHA_FDB for
nexthop group size calculation as it was missing too.
This cannot be reproduced via iproute2 as the group size is currently
limited and the command fails as follows:
addattr_l ERROR: message exceeded bound of 1048
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-04-23
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
can: raw: fix ro->uniq use-after-free in raw_rcv()
raw_release() unregisters raw CAN receive filters via can_rx_unregister(),
but receiver deletion is deferred with call_rcu(). This leaves a window
where raw_rcv() may still be running in an RCU read-side critical section
after raw_release() frees ro->uniq, leading to a use-after-free of the
percpu uniq storage.
Move free_percpu(ro->uniq) out of raw_release() and into a raw-specific
socket destructor. can_rx_unregister() takes an extra reference to the
socket and only drops it from the RCU callback, so freeing uniq from
sk_destruct ensures the percpu area is not released until the relevant
callbacks have drained.
[mkl: applied manually]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-23
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvme-pci: ensure we're polling a polled queue
A user can change the polled queue count at run time. There's a brief
window during a reset where a hipri task may try to poll that queue
before the block layer has updated the queue maps, which would race with
the now interrupt driven queue and may cause double completions.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
HID: asus: avoid memory leak in asus_report_fixup()
The asus_report_fixup() function was returning a newly allocated
kmemdup()-allocated buffer, but never freeing it. Switch to
devm_kzalloc() to ensure the memory is managed and freed automatically
when the device is removed.
The caller of report_fixup() does not take ownership of the returned
pointer, but it is permitted to return a pointer whose lifetime is at
least that of the input buffer.
Also fix a harmless out-of-bounds read by copying only the original
descriptor size.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-22
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
driver core: platform: use generic driver_override infrastructure
When a driver is probed through __driver_attach(), the bus' match()
callback is called without the device lock held, thus accessing the
driver_override field without a lock, which can cause a UAF.
Fix this by using the driver-core driver_override infrastructure taking
care of proper locking internally.
Note that calling match() from __driver_attach() without the device lock
held is intentional. [1]
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-04-22