linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38621: md: make rdev

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Message-ID: <2025082229-CVE-2025-38621-763f@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2025 18:00:30 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38621: md: make rdev_addable usable for rcu mode

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

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

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

md: make rdev_addable usable for rcu mode

Our testcase trigger panic:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000e0
...
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 85 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 6.16.0+ #94
PREEMPT(none)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Workqueue: md_misc md_start_sync
RIP: 0010:rdev_addable+0x4d/0xf0
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 md_start_sync+0x329/0x480
 process_one_work+0x226/0x6d0
 worker_thread+0x19e/0x340
 kthread+0x10f/0x250
 ret_from_fork+0x14d/0x180
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
 </TASK>
Modules linked in: raid10
CR2: 00000000000000e0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:rdev_addable+0x4d/0xf0

md_spares_need_change in md_start_sync will call rdev_addable which
protected by rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock. This rcu context will help
protect rdev won't be released, but rdev->mddev will be set to NULL
before we call synchronize_rcu in md_kick_rdev_from_array. Fix this by
using READ_ONCE and check does rdev->mddev still alive.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38621 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit bc08041b32abe6c9824f78735bac22018eabfc06 and fixed in 6.16.1 with commit b5fbe940862339cdcc34dea7a057ad18d18fa137
	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit bc08041b32abe6c9824f78735bac22018eabfc06 and fixed in 6.17-rc1 with commit 13017b427118f4311471ee47df74872372ca8482

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-2025-38621
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/md/md.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/b5fbe940862339cdcc34dea7a057ad18d18fa137
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/13017b427118f4311471ee47df74872372ca8482