CVE-2025-38383
Published: Jul 25, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: mm/vmalloc: fix data race in show_numa_info() The following data-race was found in show_numa_info(): ================================================================== BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vmalloc_info_show / vmalloc_info_show read to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8289 on cpu 0: show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4936 [inline] vmalloc_info_show+0x5a8/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016 seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230 proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299 .... write to 0xffff88800971fe30 of 4 bytes by task 8287 on cpu 1: show_numa_info mm/vmalloc.c:4934 [inline] vmalloc_info_show+0x38f/0x7e0 mm/vmalloc.c:5016 seq_read_iter+0x373/0xb40 fs/seq_file.c:230 proc_reg_read_iter+0x11e/0x170 fs/proc/inode.c:299 .... value changed: 0x0000008f -> 0x00000000 ================================================================== According to this report,there is a read/write data-race because m->private is accessible to multiple CPUs. To fix this, instead of allocating the heap in proc_vmalloc_init() and passing the heap address to m->private, vmalloc_info_show() should allocate the heap.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 8e1d743f2c2671aa54f6f91a2b33823f92512870 - < ead91de35d9cd5c4f80ec51e6020f342079170afaffected 8e1d743f2c2671aa54f6f91a2b33823f92512870 - < 5c966f447a584ece3c70395898231aeb56256ee7affected 8e1d743f2c2671aa54f6f91a2b33823f92512870 - < 5c5f0468d172ddec2e333d738d2a1f85402cf0bc |
Linux | Linux | affected 6.9unaffected 0 - < 6.9unaffected 6.12.37 - <= 6.12.*unaffected 6.15.6 - <= 6.15.*unaffected 6.16 - <= * |
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