linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38397: nvme-multipath: fix suspicious RCU usage warning

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Message-ID: <2025072509-CVE-2025-38397-d375@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:55:28 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38397: nvme-multipath: fix suspicious RCU usage warning

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

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

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

nvme-multipath: fix suspicious RCU usage warning

When I run the NVME over TCP test in virtme-ng, I get the following
"suspicious RCU usage" warning in nvme_mpath_add_sysfs_link():

'''
[    5.024557][   T44] nvmet: Created nvm controller 1 for subsystem nqn.2025-06.org.nvmexpress.mptcp for NQN nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress:uuid:f7f6b5e0-ff97-4894-98ac-c85309e0bc77.
[    5.027401][  T183] nvme nvme0: creating 2 I/O queues.
[    5.029017][  T183] nvme nvme0: mapped 2/0/0 default/read/poll queues.
[    5.032587][  T183] nvme nvme0: new ctrl: NQN "nqn.2025-06.org.nvmexpress.mptcp", addr 127.0.0.1:4420, hostnqn: nqn.2014-08.org.nvmexpress:uuid:f7f6b5e0-ff97-4894-98ac-c85309e0bc77
[    5.042214][   T25]
[    5.042440][   T25] =============================
[    5.042579][   T25] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[    5.042705][   T25] 6.16.0-rc3+ #23 Not tainted
[    5.042812][   T25] -----------------------------
[    5.042934][   T25] drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c:1203 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!!
[    5.043111][   T25]
[    5.043111][   T25] other info that might help us debug this:
[    5.043111][   T25]
[    5.043341][   T25]
[    5.043341][   T25] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
[    5.043502][   T25] 3 locks held by kworker/u9:0/25:
[    5.043615][   T25]  #0: ffff888008730948 ((wq_completion)async){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0x7ed/0x1350
[    5.043830][   T25]  #1: ffffc900001afd40 ((work_completion)(&entry->work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work+0xcf3/0x1350
[    5.044084][   T25]  #2: ffff888013ee0020 (&head->srcu){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: nvme_mpath_add_sysfs_link.part.0+0xb4/0x3a0
[    5.044300][   T25]
[    5.044300][   T25] stack backtrace:
[    5.044439][   T25] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 25 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc3+ #23 PREEMPT(full)
[    5.044441][   T25] Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
[    5.044442][   T25] Workqueue: async async_run_entry_fn
[    5.044445][   T25] Call Trace:
[    5.044446][   T25]  <TASK>
[    5.044449][   T25]  dump_stack_lvl+0x6f/0xb0
[    5.044453][   T25]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious.cold+0x4f/0xb1
[    5.044457][   T25]  nvme_mpath_add_sysfs_link.part.0+0x2fb/0x3a0
[    5.044459][   T25]  ? queue_work_on+0x90/0xf0
[    5.044461][   T25]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0x78/0x110
[    5.044466][   T25]  nvme_mpath_set_live+0x1e9/0x4f0
[    5.044470][   T25]  nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x240/0x2f0
[    5.044472][   T25]  ? __pfx_nvme_mpath_add_disk+0x10/0x10
[    5.044475][   T25]  ? add_disk_fwnode+0x361/0x580
[    5.044480][   T25]  nvme_alloc_ns+0x81c/0x17c0
[    5.044483][   T25]  ? kasan_quarantine_put+0x104/0x240
[    5.044487][   T25]  ? __pfx_nvme_alloc_ns+0x10/0x10
[    5.044495][   T25]  ? __pfx_nvme_find_get_ns+0x10/0x10
[    5.044496][   T25]  ? rcu_read_lock_any_held+0x45/0xa0
[    5.044498][   T25]  ? validate_chain+0x232/0x4f0
[    5.044503][   T25]  nvme_scan_ns+0x4c8/0x810
[    5.044506][   T25]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns+0x10/0x10
[    5.044508][   T25]  ? find_held_lock+0x2b/0x80
[    5.044512][   T25]  ? ktime_get+0x16d/0x220
[    5.044517][   T25]  ? kvm_clock_get_cycles+0x18/0x30
[    5.044520][   T25]  ? __pfx_nvme_scan_ns_async+0x10/0x10
[    5.044522][   T25]  async_run_entry_fn+0x97/0x560
[    5.044523][   T25]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xc0
[    5.044526][   T25]  process_one_work+0xd3c/0x1350
[    5.044532][   T25]  ? __pfx_process_one_work+0x10/0x10
[    5.044536][   T25]  ? assign_work+0x16c/0x240
[    5.044539][   T25]  worker_thread+0x4da/0xd50
[    5.044545][   T25]  ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[    5.044546][   T25]  kthread+0x356/0x5c0
[    5.044548][   T25]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[    5.044549][   T25]  ? ret_from_fork+0x1b/0x2e0
[    5.044552][   T25]  ? __lock_release.isra.0+0x5d/0x180
[    5.044553][   T25]  ? ret_from_fork+0x1b/0x2e0
[    5.044555][   T25]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xc0
[    5.044557][   T25]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[    5.044559][   T25]  ret_from_fork+0x218/0x2e0
[    5.044561][   T25]  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[    5.044562][   T25]  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[    5.044570][   T25]  </TASK>
'''

This patch uses sleepable RCU version of helper list_for_each_entry_srcu()
instead of list_for_each_entry_rcu() to fix it.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38397 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 4dbd2b2ebe4cc5f101881e2c091a70ccd38db7ee and fixed in 6.15.6 with commit a432383e6cd86d9fda00a6073ed35c1067a836d6
	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 4dbd2b2ebe4cc5f101881e2c091a70ccd38db7ee and fixed in 6.16-rc5 with commit d6811074203b13f715ce2480ac64c5b1c773f2a5

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-2025-38397
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:
	drivers/nvme/host/multipath.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/a432383e6cd86d9fda00a6073ed35c1067a836d6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6811074203b13f715ce2480ac64c5b1c773f2a5