CVE-2025-38031
padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
padata: do not leak refcount in reorder_work
A recent patch that addressed a UAF introduced a reference count leak:
the parallel_data refcount is incremented unconditionally, regardless
of the return value of queue_work(). If the work item is already queued,
the incremented refcount is never decremented.
Fix this by checking the return value of queue_work() and decrementing
the refcount when necessary.
Resolves:
Unreferenced object 0xffff9d9f421e3d80 (size 192):
comm "cryptomgr_probe", pid 157, jiffies 4294694003
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
80 8b cf 41 9f 9d ff ff b8 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff ...A............
d0 97 e0 89 ff ff ff ff 19 00 00 00 1f 88 23 00 ..............#.
backtrace (crc 838fb36):
__kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x284/0x320
padata_alloc_pd+0x20/0x1e0
padata_alloc_shell+0x3b/0xa0
0xffffffffc040a54d
cryptomgr_probe+0x43/0xc0
kthread+0xf6/0x1f0
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
Affected products
Linux · LinuxWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
Talk to TrueHacking →References
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1a426abdf1c86882c9203dd8182f3b8274b89938https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1c65ae4988714716101555fe2b9830e33136d6fbhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5300e487487d7a2e3e1e6e9d8f03ed9452e4019ehttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/584a729615fa92f4de45480efb7e569d14be1516https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b9ad8e50e8589607e68e6c4cefa7f72bf35a2cb1https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cceb15864e1612ebfbc10ec4e4dcd19a10c0056chttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6ebcde6d4ecf34f8495fb30516645db3aea8993https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.htmlhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html