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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ring-buffer: Sync IRQ works before buffer destruction If something was written to the buffer just before destruction, it may be possible (maybe not in a real system, but it did happen in ARCH=um with time-travel) to destroy the ringbuffer before the IRQ work ran, leading this KASAN report (or a crash without KASAN): BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a Read of size 8 at addr 000000006d640a48 by task swapper/0 CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G W O 6.3.0-rc1 #7 Stack: 60c4f20f 0c203d48 41b58ab3 60f224fc 600477fa 60f35687 60c4f20f 601273dd 00000008 6101eb00 6101eab0 615be548 Call Trace: [<60047a58>] show_stack+0x25e/0x282 [<60c609e0>] dump_stack_lvl+0x96/0xfd [<60c50d4c>] print_report+0x1a7/0x5a8 [<603078d3>] kasan_report+0xc1/0xe9 [<60308950>] __asan_report_load8_noabort+0x1b/0x1d [<60232844>] irq_work_run_list+0x11a/0x13a [<602328b4>] irq_work_tick+0x24/0x34 [<6017f9dc>] update_process_times+0x162/0x196 [<6019f335>] tick_sched_handle+0x1a4/0x1c3 [<6019fd9e>] tick_sched_timer+0x79/0x10c [<601812b9>] __hrtimer_run_queues.constprop.0+0x425/0x695 [<60182913>] hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x2c4 [<600486a3>] um_timer+0x164/0x183 [...] Allocated by task 411: save_stack_trace+0x99/0xb5 stack_trace_save+0x81/0x9b kasan_save_stack+0x2d/0x54 kasan_set_track+0x34/0x3e kasan_save_alloc_info+0x25/0x28 ____kasan_kmalloc+0x8b/0x97 __kasan_kmalloc+0x10/0x12 __kmalloc+0xb2/0xe8 load_elf_phdrs+0xee/0x182 [...] The buggy address belongs to the object at 000000006d640800 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024 The buggy address is located 584 bytes inside of freed 1024-byte region [000000006d640800, 000000006d640c00) Add the appropriate irq_work_sync() so the work finishes before the buffers are destroyed. Prior to the commit in the Fixes tag below, there was only a single global IRQ work, so this issue didn't exist.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-10-04 | Published 2025-10-04 | Updated 2025-10-04 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 372c5ee537b8366b64b691ba29e9335525e1655e
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 2702b67f59d455072a08dc40312f9b090d4dec04
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 2399b1fda025e939b6fb1ac94505bcf718534e65
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 1c99f65d6af2a454bfd5207b4f6a97c8474a1191
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before c63741e872fcfb10e153517750f7908f0c00f60d
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before d9834abd8b24d1fe8092859e436fe1e0fd467c61
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before fc6858b7f8e1221f62ce8c6ff8a13a349c32cd76
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 0a65165bd24ee9231191597b7c232376fcd70cdb
affected

15693458c4bc0693fd63a50d60f35b628fcf4e29 before 675751bb20634f981498c7d66161584080cc061e
affected

Default status
affected

3.10
affected

Any version before 3.10
unaffected

4.14.315
unaffected

4.19.283
unaffected

5.4.243
unaffected

5.10.180
unaffected

5.15.111
unaffected

6.1.28
unaffected

6.2.15
unaffected

6.3.2
unaffected

6.4
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/372c5ee537b8366b64b691ba29e9335525e1655e

git.kernel.org/...c/2702b67f59d455072a08dc40312f9b090d4dec04

git.kernel.org/...c/2399b1fda025e939b6fb1ac94505bcf718534e65

git.kernel.org/...c/1c99f65d6af2a454bfd5207b4f6a97c8474a1191

git.kernel.org/...c/c63741e872fcfb10e153517750f7908f0c00f60d

git.kernel.org/...c/d9834abd8b24d1fe8092859e436fe1e0fd467c61

git.kernel.org/...c/fc6858b7f8e1221f62ce8c6ff8a13a349c32cd76

git.kernel.org/...c/0a65165bd24ee9231191597b7c232376fcd70cdb

git.kernel.org/...c/675751bb20634f981498c7d66161584080cc061e

cve.org (CVE-2023-53587)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2023-53587)

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