GHSA-vq63-h845-wgm6
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published February 27, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: md/md-bitmap: Synchronize bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap lifetime After commit ec6bb299c7c3 ("md/md-bitmap: add 'sync_size' into struct md_bitmap_stats"), following panic is reported: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address RIP: 0010:bitmap_get_stats+0x2b/0xa0 Call Trace: <TASK> md_seq_show+0x2d2/0x5b0 seq_read_iter+0x2b9/0x470 seq_read+0x12f/0x180 proc_reg_read+0x57/0xb0 vfs_read+0xf6/0x380 ksys_read+0x6c/0xf0 do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e Root cause is that bitmap_get_stats() can be called at anytime if mddev is still there, even if bitmap is destroyed, or not fully initialized. Deferenceing bitmap in this case can crash the kernel. Meanwhile, the above commit start to deferencing bitmap->storage, make the problem easier to trigger. Fix the problem by protecting bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap_info.mutex.
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- Feb 27, 2025 CVE Published
- Apr 10, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21712 advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/032fa54f486eac5507976e7e31f079a767bc13a8 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/52848a095b55a302af92f52ca0de5b3112059bb8 url
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/237e19519c8ff6949f0ef57c4a0243f5b2b0fa18 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4e9316eee3885bfb311b4759513f2ccf37891c09 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d28d0ddb986f56920ac97ae704cc3340a699a30 url
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb2f9d98cd3e94a79fbf8fb90637c5b12e805428 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00045.html url