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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
sound/virtio: Fix cancel_sync warnings on uninitialized work_structs
Betty reported hitting the following warning:
[ 8.709131][ T221] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 221 at kernel/workqueue.c:4182
...
[ 8.713282][ T221] Call trace:
[ 8.713365][ T221] __flush_work+0x8d0/0x914
[ 8.713468][ T221] __cancel_work_sync+0xac/0xfc
[ 8.713570][ T221] cancel_work_sync+0x24/0x34
[ 8.713667][ T221] virtsnd_remove+0xa8/0xf8 [virtio_snd ab15f34d0dd772f6d11327e08a81d46dc9c36276]
[ 8.713868][ T221] virtsnd_probe+0x48c/0x664 [virtio_snd ab15f34d0dd772f6d11327e08a81d46dc9c36276]
[ 8.714035][ T221] virtio_dev_probe+0x28c/0x390
[ 8.714139][ T221] really_probe+0x1bc/0x4c8
...
It seems we're hitting the error path in virtsnd_probe(), which
triggers a virtsnd_remove() which iterates over the substreams
calling cancel_work_sync() on the elapsed_period work_struct.
Looking at the code, from earlier in:
virtsnd_probe()->virtsnd_build_devs()->virtsnd_pcm_parse_cfg()
We set snd->nsubstreams, allocate the snd->substreams, and if
we then hit an error on the info allocation or something in
virtsnd_ctl_query_info() fails, we will exit without having
initialized the elapsed_period work_struct.
When that error path unwinds we then call virtsnd_remove()
which as long as the substreams array is allocated, will iterate
through calling cancel_work_sync() on the uninitialized work
struct hitting this warning.
Takashi Iwai suggested this fix, which initializes the substreams
structure right after allocation, so that if we hit the error
paths we avoid trying to cleanup uninitialized data.
Note: I have not yet managed to reproduce the issue myself, so
this patch has had limited testing.
Feedback or thoughts would be appreciated!
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix kmemleak warning for percpu hashmap
Vlad Poenaru reported the following kmemleak issue:
unreferenced object 0x606fd7c44ac8 (size 32):
backtrace (crc 0):
pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x730/0xeb0
bpf_map_alloc_percpu+0x69/0xc0
prealloc_init+0x9d/0x1b0
htab_map_alloc+0x363/0x510
map_create+0x215/0x3a0
__sys_bpf+0x16b/0x3e0
__x64_sys_bpf+0x18/0x20
do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x150
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
Further investigation shows the reason is due to not 8-byte aligned
store of percpu pointer in htab_elem_set_ptr():
*(void __percpu **)(l->key + key_size) = pptr;
Note that the whole htab_elem alignment is 8 (for x86_64). If the key_size
is 4, that means pptr is stored in a location which is 4 byte aligned but
not 8 byte aligned. In mm/kmemleak.c, scan_block() scans the memory based
on 8 byte stride, so it won't detect above pptr, hence reporting the memory
leak.
In htab_map_alloc(), we already have
htab->elem_size = sizeof(struct htab_elem) +
round_up(htab->map.key_size, 8);
if (percpu)
htab->elem_size += sizeof(void *);
else
htab->elem_size += round_up(htab->map.value_size, 8);
So storing pptr with 8-byte alignment won't cause any problem and can fix
kmemleak too.
The issue can be reproduced with bpf selftest as well:
1. Enable CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK config
2. Add a getchar() before skel destroy in test_hash_map() in prog_tests/for_each.c.
The purpose is to keep map available so kmemleak can be detected.
3. run './test_progs -t for_each/hash_map &' and a kmemleak should be reported.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: null - Use spin lock instead of mutex
As the null algorithm may be freed in softirq context through
af_alg, use spin locks instead of mutexes to protect the default
null algorithm.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
driver core: fix potential NULL pointer dereference in dev_uevent()
If userspace reads "uevent" device attribute at the same time as another
threads unbinds the device from its driver, change to dev->driver from a
valid pointer to NULL may result in crash. Fix this by using READ_ONCE()
when fetching the pointer, and take bus' drivers klist lock to make sure
driver instance will not disappear while we access it.
Use WRITE_ONCE() when setting the driver pointer to ensure there is no
tearing.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-08
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
scsi: target: Fix WRITE_SAME No Data Buffer crash
In newer version of the SBC specs, we have a NDOB bit that indicates there
is no data buffer that gets written out. If this bit is set using commands
like "sg_write_same --ndob" we will crash in target_core_iblock/file's
execute_write_same handlers when we go to access the se_cmd->t_data_sg
because its NULL.
This patch adds a check for the NDOB bit in the common WRITE SAME code
because we don't support it. And, it adds a check for zero SG elements in
each handler in case the initiator tries to send a normal WRITE SAME with
no data buffer.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ila: do not generate empty messages in ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping()
ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping() generates an empty skb,
triggerring a recent sanity check [1].
Instead, return an error code, so that user space
can get it.
[1]
skb_assert_len
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5923 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 skb_assert_len include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 [inline]
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 5923 at include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 __dev_queue_xmit+0x1bc0/0x3488 net/core/dev.c:4156
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 PID: 5923 Comm: syz-executor269 Not tainted 6.2.0-syzkaller-18300-g2ebd1fbb946d #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/21/2023
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : skb_assert_len include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 [inline]
pc : __dev_queue_xmit+0x1bc0/0x3488 net/core/dev.c:4156
lr : skb_assert_len include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 [inline]
lr : __dev_queue_xmit+0x1bc0/0x3488 net/core/dev.c:4156
sp : ffff80001e0d6c40
x29: ffff80001e0d6e60 x28: dfff800000000000 x27: ffff0000c86328c0
x26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff0000c8632990 x24: ffff0000c8632a00
x23: 0000000000000000 x22: 1fffe000190c6542 x21: ffff0000c8632a10
x20: ffff0000c8632a00 x19: ffff80001856e000 x18: ffff80001e0d5fc0
x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80001235d16c x15: 0000000000000000
x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000001 x12: 0000000000000001
x11: ff80800008353a30 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 21567eaf25bfb600
x8 : 21567eaf25bfb600 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001
x5 : ffff80001e0d6558 x4 : ffff800015c74760 x3 : ffff800008596744
x2 : 0000000000000001 x1 : 0000000100000000 x0 : 000000000000000e
Call trace:
skb_assert_len include/linux/skbuff.h:2527 [inline]
__dev_queue_xmit+0x1bc0/0x3488 net/core/dev.c:4156
dev_queue_xmit include/linux/netdevice.h:3033 [inline]
__netlink_deliver_tap_skb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:307 [inline]
__netlink_deliver_tap+0x45c/0x6f8 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:325
netlink_deliver_tap+0xf4/0x174 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:338
__netlink_sendskb net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1283 [inline]
netlink_sendskb+0x6c/0x154 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1292
netlink_unicast+0x334/0x8d4 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1380
nlmsg_unicast include/net/netlink.h:1099 [inline]
genlmsg_unicast include/net/genetlink.h:433 [inline]
genlmsg_reply include/net/genetlink.h:443 [inline]
ila_xlat_nl_cmd_get_mapping+0x620/0x7d0 net/ipv6/ila/ila_xlat.c:493
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit net/netlink/genetlink.c:968 [inline]
genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:1048 [inline]
genl_rcv_msg+0x938/0xc1c net/netlink/genetlink.c:1065
netlink_rcv_skb+0x214/0x3c4 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2574
genl_rcv+0x38/0x50 net/netlink/genetlink.c:1076
netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1339 [inline]
netlink_unicast+0x660/0x8d4 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1365
netlink_sendmsg+0x800/0xae0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1942
sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:734 [inline]
____sys_sendmsg+0x558/0x844 net/socket.c:2479
___sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2533 [inline]
__sys_sendmsg+0x26c/0x33c net/socket.c:2562
__do_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2571 [inline]
__se_sys_sendmsg net/socket.c:2569 [inline]
__arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x80/0x94 net/socket.c:2569
__invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:38 [inline]
invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2c0 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:52
el0_svc_common+0x138/0x258 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:142
do_el0_svc+0x64/0x198 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:193
el0_svc+0x58/0x168 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:637
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0xf0 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:655
el0t_64_sync+0x190/0x194 arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:591
irq event stamp: 136484
hardirqs last enabled at (136483): [<ffff800008350244>] __up_console_sem+0x60/0xb4 kernel/printk/printk.c:345
hardirqs last disabled at (136484): [<ffff800012358d60>] el1_dbg+0x24/0x80 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:405
softirqs last enabled at (136418): [<ffff800008020ea8>] softirq_ha
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ext4: fix another off-by-one fsmap error on 1k block filesystems
Apparently syzbot figured out that issuing this FSMAP call:
struct fsmap_head cmd = {
.fmh_count = ...;
.fmh_keys = {
{ .fmr_device = /* ext4 dev */, .fmr_physical = 0, },
{ .fmr_device = /* ext4 dev */, .fmr_physical = 0, },
},
...
};
ret = ioctl(fd, FS_IOC_GETFSMAP, &cmd);
Produces this crash if the underlying filesystem is a 1k-block ext4
filesystem:
kernel BUG at fs/ext4/ext4.h:3331!
invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
CPU: 3 PID: 3227965 Comm: xfs_io Tainted: G W O 6.2.0-rc8-achx
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:ext4_mb_load_buddy_gfp+0x47c/0x570 [ext4]
RSP: 0018:ffffc90007c03998 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: ffff888004978000 RBX: ffffc90007c03a20 RCX: ffff888041618000
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000000005a4 RDI: ffffffffa0c99b11
RBP: ffff888012330000 R08: ffffffffa0c2b7d0 R09: 0000000000000400
R10: ffffc90007c03950 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: 00000000ffffffff R14: 0000000000000c40 R15: ffff88802678c398
FS: 00007fdf2020c880(0000) GS:ffff88807e100000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007ffd318a5fe8 CR3: 000000007f80f001 CR4: 00000000001706e0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
ext4_mballoc_query_range+0x4b/0x210 [ext4 dfa189daddffe8fecd3cdfd00564e0f265a8ab80]
ext4_getfsmap_datadev+0x713/0x890 [ext4 dfa189daddffe8fecd3cdfd00564e0f265a8ab80]
ext4_getfsmap+0x2b7/0x330 [ext4 dfa189daddffe8fecd3cdfd00564e0f265a8ab80]
ext4_ioc_getfsmap+0x153/0x2b0 [ext4 dfa189daddffe8fecd3cdfd00564e0f265a8ab80]
__ext4_ioctl+0x2a7/0x17e0 [ext4 dfa189daddffe8fecd3cdfd00564e0f265a8ab80]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x82/0xa0
do_syscall_64+0x2b/0x80
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0
RIP: 0033:0x7fdf20558aff
RSP: 002b:00007ffd318a9e30 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00000000000200c0 RCX: 00007fdf20558aff
RDX: 00007fdf1feb2010 RSI: 00000000c0c0583b RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 00005625c0634be0 R08: 00005625c0634c40 R09: 0000000000000001
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00007fdf1feb2010
R13: 00005625be70d994 R14: 0000000000000800 R15: 0000000000000000
For GETFSMAP calls, the caller selects a physical block device by
writing its block number into fsmap_head.fmh_keys[01].fmr_device.
To query mappings for a subrange of the device, the starting byte of the
range is written to fsmap_head.fmh_keys[0].fmr_physical and the last
byte of the range goes in fsmap_head.fmh_keys[1].fmr_physical.
IOWs, to query what mappings overlap with bytes 3-14 of /dev/sda, you'd
set the inputs as follows:
fmh_keys[0] = { .fmr_device = major(8, 0), .fmr_physical = 3},
fmh_keys[1] = { .fmr_device = major(8, 0), .fmr_physical = 14},
Which would return you whatever is mapped in the 12 bytes starting at
physical offset 3.
The crash is due to insufficient range validation of keys[1] in
ext4_getfsmap_datadev. On 1k-block filesystems, block 0 is not part of
the filesystem, which means that s_first_data_block is nonzero.
ext4_get_group_no_and_offset subtracts this quantity from the blocknr
argument before cracking it into a group number and a block number
within a group. IOWs, block group 0 spans blocks 1-8192 (1-based)
instead of 0-8191 (0-based) like what happens with larger blocksizes.
The net result of this encoding is that blocknr < s_first_data_block is
not a valid input to this function. The end_fsb variable is set from
the keys that are copied from userspace, which means that in the above
example, its value is zero. That leads to an underflow here:
blocknr = blocknr - le32_to_cpu(es->s_first_data_block);
The division then operates on -1:
offset = do_div(blocknr, EXT4_BLOCKS_PER_GROUP(sb)) >>
EXT4_SB(sb)->s_cluster_bits;
Leaving an impossibly large group number (2^32-1) in blocknr.
ext4_getfsmap_check_keys checked that keys[0
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
SUNRPC: Fix a server shutdown leak
Fix a race where kthread_stop() may prevent the threadfn from ever getting
called. If that happens the svc_rqst will not be cleaned up.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: caif: Fix use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify()
syzbot reported use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify() [1]. This
causes a stack trace like below:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807ac4e6f0 by task kworker/u4:6/1214
CPU: 0 PID: 1214 Comm: kworker/u4:6 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-syzkaller-00146-g92f20ff72066 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Workqueue: netns cleanup_net
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106
print_address_description.constprop.0.cold+0xeb/0x467 mm/kasan/report.c:313
print_report mm/kasan/report.c:429 [inline]
kasan_report.cold+0xf4/0x1c6 mm/kasan/report.c:491
cfusbl_device_notify+0x7c9/0x870 net/caif/caif_usb.c:138
notifier_call_chain+0xb5/0x200 kernel/notifier.c:87
call_netdevice_notifiers_info+0xb5/0x130 net/core/dev.c:1945
call_netdevice_notifiers_extack net/core/dev.c:1983 [inline]
call_netdevice_notifiers net/core/dev.c:1997 [inline]
netdev_wait_allrefs_any net/core/dev.c:10227 [inline]
netdev_run_todo+0xbc0/0x10f0 net/core/dev.c:10341
default_device_exit_batch+0x44e/0x590 net/core/dev.c:11334
ops_exit_list+0x125/0x170 net/core/net_namespace.c:167
cleanup_net+0x4ea/0xb00 net/core/net_namespace.c:594
process_one_work+0x996/0x1610 kernel/workqueue.c:2289
worker_thread+0x665/0x1080 kernel/workqueue.c:2436
kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0 kernel/kthread.c:376
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:302
</TASK>
When unregistering a net device, unregister_netdevice_many_notify()
sets the device's reg_state to NETREG_UNREGISTERING, calls notifiers
with NETDEV_UNREGISTER, and adds the device to the todo list.
Later on, devices in the todo list are processed by netdev_run_todo().
netdev_run_todo() waits devices' reference count become 1 while
rebdoadcasting NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification.
When cfusbl_device_notify() is called with NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple
times, the parent device might be freed. This could cause UAF.
Processing NETDEV_UNREGISTER multiple times also causes inbalance of
reference count for the module.
This patch fixes the issue by accepting only first NETDEV_UNREGISTER
notification.
CVSS Score
7.8
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nfc: fdp: add null check of devm_kmalloc_array in fdp_nci_i2c_read_device_properties
devm_kmalloc_array may fails, *fw_vsc_cfg might be null and cause
out-of-bounds write in device_property_read_u8_array later.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.0
Published
2025-05-02