CVE-2025-40231
vsock: fix lock inversion in vsock_assign_transport()
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
vsock: fix lock inversion in vsock_assign_transport()
Syzbot reported a potential lock inversion deadlock between
vsock_register_mutex and sk_lock-AF_VSOCK when vsock_linger() is called.
The issue was introduced by commit 687aa0c5581b ("vsock: Fix
transport_* TOCTOU") which added vsock_register_mutex locking in
vsock_assign_transport() around the transport->release() call, that can
call vsock_linger(). vsock_assign_transport() can be called with sk_lock
held. vsock_linger() calls sk_wait_event() that temporarily releases and
re-acquires sk_lock. During this window, if another thread hold
vsock_register_mutex while trying to acquire sk_lock, a circular
dependency is created.
Fix this by releasing vsock_register_mutex before calling
transport->release() and vsock_deassign_transport(). This is safe
because we don't need to hold vsock_register_mutex while releasing the
old transport, and we ensure the new transport won't disappear by
obtaining a module reference first via try_module_get().
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https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/09bba278ccde25a14b6e5088a9e65a8717d0cccfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/251caee792a21eb0b781aab91362b422c945e162https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/42ed0784d11adebf748711e503af0eb9f1e6d81dhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a2a4346eea8b4cb75037dbcb20b98cb454324f80https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b44182c116778feaa05da52a426aeb9da1878dcfhttps://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce4f856c64f0bc30e29302a0ce41f4295ca391c5https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7c877e7535260cc7a21484c994e8ce7e8cb6780