N/A - CVE-2025-38106

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

io_uring: fix use-after-free of sq->thread in __io_uring_show_fdinfo()

syzbot reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60 Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810de2d2c8 by task a.out/304

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 304 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 Call Trace:

dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xd0/0x670
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
? __pfx_getrusage+0x10/0x10
__io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x9fe/0x1790
? ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
? do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
? vsnprintf+0x591/0x1100
? __pfx___io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_vsnprintf+0x10/0x10
? mutex_trylock+0xcf/0x130
? __pfx_mutex_trylock+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_show_fd_locks+0x10/0x10
? io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
seq_show+0x38c/0x690
seq_read_iter+0x3f7/0x1180
? inode_set_ctime_current+0x160/0x4b0
seq_read+0x271/0x3e0
? __pfx_seq_read+0x10/0x10
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
? __mark_inode_dirty+0x402/0x810
? selinux_file_permission+0x368/0x500
? file_update_time+0x10f/0x160
vfs_read+0x177/0xa40
? __pfx___handle_mm_fault+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_vfs_read+0x10/0x10
? mutex_lock+0x81/0xe0
? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
? fdget_pos+0x24d/0x4b0
ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10
? do_user_addr_fault+0x43b/0x9c0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f0f74170fc9 Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 8 RSP: 002b:00007fffece049e8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0f74170fc9 RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007fffece049f0 RDI: 0000000000000004 RBP: 00007fffece05ad0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fffece04d90 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00005651720a1100 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000

Allocated by task 298:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0xe8/0x330
copy_process+0x376/0x5e00
create_io_thread+0xab/0xf0
io_sq_offload_create+0x9ed/0xf20
io_uring_setup+0x12b0/0x1cc0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 22:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50
kmem_cache_free+0xc4/0x360
rcu_core+0x5ff/0x19f0
handle_softirqs+0x18c/0x530
run_ksoftirqd+0x20/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0x287/0x6c0
kthread+0x30d/0x630
ret_from_fork+0xef/0x1a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0
__call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x68/0x940
__schedule+0xff2/0x2930
__cond_resched+0x4c/0x80
mutex_lock+0x5c/0xe0
io_uring_del_tctx_node+0xe1/0x2b0
io_uring_clean_tctx+0xb7/0x160
io_uring_cancel_generic+0x34e/0x760
do_exit+0x240/0x2350
do_group_exit+0xab/0x220
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x39/0x40
x64_sys_call+0x1243/0x1840
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810de2cb00
which belongs to the cache task_struct of size 3712 The buggy address is located 1992 bytes inside of
freed 3712-byte region [ffff88810de2cb00, ffff88810de2d980)

which is caused by the task_struct pointed to by sq->thread being released while it is being used in the function __io_uring_show_fdinfo(). Holding ctx->uring_lock does not prevent ehre relase or exit of sq->thread.

Fix this by assigning and looking up ->thread under RCU, and grabbing a reference to the task_struct. This e ---truncated---