ghsa-275j-88f3-q9g5
Vulnerability from github
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify
During our test, it is found that a warning can be trigger in try_grab_folio as follow:
------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1678 at mm/gup.c:147 try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1678 Comm: syz.3.31 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5 #163 PREEMPT(undef) RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130 Call Trace: follow_huge_pmd+0x240/0x8e0 follow_pmd_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x40b/0x5c0 follow_pud_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x14a/0x170 follow_page_mask+0x1c2/0x1f0 __get_user_pages+0x176/0x950 __gup_longterm_locked+0x15b/0x1060 ? gup_fast+0x120/0x1f0 gup_fast_fallback+0x17e/0x230 get_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x80 vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x21c/0xf80 RIP: 0033:0x54d2cd ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
Digging into the source, context->notify_page may init by get_user_pages_fast and can be seen in vmci_ctx_unset_notify which will try to put_page. However get_user_pages_fast is not finished here and lead to following try_grab_folio warning. The race condition is shown as follow:
cpu0 cpu1 vmci_host_do_set_notify vmci_host_setup_notify get_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &context->notify_page); lockless_pages_from_mm gup_pgd_range gup_huge_pmd // update &context->notify_page vmci_host_do_set_notify vmci_ctx_unset_notify notify_page = context->notify_page; if (notify_page) put_page(notify_page); // page is freed __gup_longterm_locked __get_user_pages follow_trans_huge_pmd try_grab_folio // warn here
To slove this, use local variable page to make notify_page can be seen after finish get_user_pages_fast.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-38102"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-07-03T09:15:23Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nVMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify\n\nDuring our test, it is found that a warning can be trigger in try_grab_folio\nas follow:\n\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1678 at mm/gup.c:147 try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1678 Comm: syz.3.31 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5 #163 PREEMPT(undef)\n RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n follow_huge_pmd+0x240/0x8e0\n follow_pmd_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x40b/0x5c0\n follow_pud_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x14a/0x170\n follow_page_mask+0x1c2/0x1f0\n __get_user_pages+0x176/0x950\n __gup_longterm_locked+0x15b/0x1060\n ? gup_fast+0x120/0x1f0\n gup_fast_fallback+0x17e/0x230\n get_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x80\n vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x21c/0xf80\n RIP: 0033:0x54d2cd\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---\n\nDigging into the source, context-\u003enotify_page may init by get_user_pages_fast\nand can be seen in vmci_ctx_unset_notify which will try to put_page. However\nget_user_pages_fast is not finished here and lead to following\ntry_grab_folio warning. The race condition is shown as follow:\n\ncpu0\t\t\tcpu1\nvmci_host_do_set_notify\nvmci_host_setup_notify\nget_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, FOLL_WRITE, \u0026context-\u003enotify_page);\nlockless_pages_from_mm\ngup_pgd_range\ngup_huge_pmd // update \u0026context-\u003enotify_page\n\t\t\tvmci_host_do_set_notify\n\t\t\tvmci_ctx_unset_notify\n\t\t\tnotify_page = context-\u003enotify_page;\n\t\t\tif (notify_page)\n\t\t\tput_page(notify_page);\t// page is freed\n__gup_longterm_locked\n__get_user_pages\nfollow_trans_huge_pmd\ntry_grab_folio // warn here\n\nTo slove this, use local variable page to make notify_page can be seen\nafter finish get_user_pages_fast.",
"id": "GHSA-275j-88f3-q9g5",
"modified": "2025-07-17T18:31:09Z",
"published": "2025-07-03T09:30:33Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38102"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00ddc7dad55b7bbb78df80d6e174d0c4764dea0c"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1bd6406fb5f36c2bb1e96e27d4c3e9f4d09edde4"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/468aec888f838ce5174b96e0cb4396790d6f60ca"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/58a90db70aa6616411e5f69d1982d9b1dd97d774"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6e3af836805ed1d7a699f76ec798626198917aa4"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/74095bbbb19ca74a0368d857603a2438c88ca86c"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/75b5313c80c39a26d27cbb602f968a05576c36f9"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b4209e4b778e4e57d0636e1c9fc07a924dbc6043"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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