CVE-2025-38256
Published: Jul 9, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: io_uring/rsrc: fix folio unpinning syzbot complains about an unmapping failure: [ 108.070381][ T14] kernel BUG at mm/gup.c:71! [ 108.070502][ T14] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP [ 108.123672][ T14] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250221-8.fc42 02/21/2025 [ 108.127458][ T14] Workqueue: iou_exit io_ring_exit_work [ 108.174205][ T14] Call trace: [ 108.175649][ T14] sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x7cc/0x7d0 (P) [ 108.178138][ T14] unpin_user_page+0x80/0x10c [ 108.180189][ T14] io_release_ubuf+0x84/0xf8 [ 108.182196][ T14] io_free_rsrc_node+0x250/0x57c [ 108.184345][ T14] io_rsrc_data_free+0x148/0x298 [ 108.186493][ T14] io_sqe_buffers_unregister+0x84/0xa0 [ 108.188991][ T14] io_ring_ctx_free+0x48/0x480 [ 108.191057][ T14] io_ring_exit_work+0x764/0x7d8 [ 108.193207][ T14] process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c [ 108.195431][ T14] worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 [ 108.197561][ T14] kthread+0x5fc/0x75c [ 108.199362][ T14] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 We can pin a tail page of a folio, but then io_uring will try to unpin the head page of the folio. While it should be fine in terms of keeping the page actually alive, mm folks say it's wrong and triggers a debug warning. Use unpin_user_folio() instead of unpin_user_page*. [axboe: adapt to current tree, massage commit message]
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d - < 53fd75f25b223878b5fff14932e3a22f42b54f77affected a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d - < 11e7b7369e655e6131387b174218d7fa9557b3daaffected a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d - < 5afb4bf9fc62d828647647ec31745083637132e4 |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.12unaffected 0 - < 6.12unaffected 6.12.36 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.5 - <= 6.15.*unaffected 6.16 - <= * |
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