linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38129: page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in

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Message-ID: <2025070330-CVE-2025-38129-3c0e@gregkh>
Date: Thu,  3 Jul 2025 10:35:46 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38129: page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring

syzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]
 print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489
 kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602
 lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862
 __raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline]
 _raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210
 spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]
 ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline]
 page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline]
 page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826
 page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline]
 page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline]
 napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036
 skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline]
 skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline]
 skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125
 skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]
 __kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline]
 sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242
 kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline]
 __skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]

root cause is:

page_pool_recycle_in_ring
  ptr_ring_produce
    spin_lock(&r->producer_lock);
    WRITE_ONCE(r->queue[r->producer++], ptr)
      //recycle last page to pool
				page_pool_release
				  page_pool_scrub
				    page_pool_empty_ring
				      ptr_ring_consume
				      page_pool_return_page  //release all page
				  __page_pool_destroy
				     free_percpu(pool->recycle_stats);
				     free(pool) //free

     spin_unlock(&r->producer_lock); //pool->ring uaf read
  recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);

page_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring.
Add producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page
pool from being free before all pages have been recycled.

recycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not
enabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition
for pool stat macro to fix warning.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38129 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.18 with commit ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f and fixed in 6.12.34 with commit e869a85acc2e60dc554579b910826a4919d8cd98
	Issue introduced in 4.18 with commit ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f and fixed in 6.15.3 with commit 4ab8c0f8905c9c4d05e7f437e65a9a365573ff02
	Issue introduced in 4.18 with commit ff7d6b27f894f1469dc51ccb828b7363ccd9799f and fixed in 6.16-rc1 with commit 271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38129
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	net/core/page_pool.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e869a85acc2e60dc554579b910826a4919d8cd98
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4ab8c0f8905c9c4d05e7f437e65a9a365573ff02
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/271683bb2cf32e5126c592b5d5e6a756fa374fd9