CVE-2025-38510

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

kasan: remove kasan_find_vm_area() to prevent possible deadlock

find_vm_area() couldn't be called in atomic_context. If find_vm_area() is called to reports vm area information, kasan can trigger deadlock like:

CPU0 CPU1 vmalloc(); alloc_vmap_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) spin_lock_bh(&some_lock); <interrupt occurs> <in softirq> spin_lock(&some_lock); <access invalid address> kasan_report(); print_report(); print_address_description(); kasan_find_vm_area(); find_vm_area(); spin_lock(&vn->busy.lock) // deadlock!

To prevent possible deadlock while kasan reports, remove kasan_find_vm_area().

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
LinuxLinuxc056a364e9546bd513d1f5205f0ee316d8acb910 < 595f78d99b9051600233c0a5c4c47e1097e6ed01affected
LinuxLinuxc056a364e9546bd513d1f5205f0ee316d8acb910 < 8377d7744bdce5c4b3f1b58924eebd3fdc078dfcaffected
LinuxLinuxc056a364e9546bd513d1f5205f0ee316d8acb910 < 2d89dab1ea6086e6cbe6fe92531b496fb6808cb9affected
LinuxLinuxc056a364e9546bd513d1f5205f0ee316d8acb910 < 0c3566d831def922cd56322c772a7b20d8b0e0c0affected
LinuxLinuxc056a364e9546bd513d1f5205f0ee316d8acb910 < 6ee9b3d84775944fb8c8a447961cd01274ac671caffected
LinuxLinux5.18affected
LinuxLinux0 < 5.18unaffected
LinuxLinux6.1.146 <= 6.1.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.6.99 <= 6.6.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.12.39 <= 6.12.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.15.7 <= 6.15.*unaffected
LinuxLinux6.16 <= *unaffected

Weaknesses

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

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