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Message-ID: <2025102811-CVE-2025-40037-5cfd@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:48:14 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-40037: fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
fbdev: simplefb: Fix use after free in simplefb_detach_genpds()
The pm_domain cleanup can not be devres managed as it uses struct
simplefb_par which is allocated within struct fb_info by
framebuffer_alloc(). This allocation is explicitly freed by
unregister_framebuffer() in simplefb_remove().
Devres managed cleanup runs after the device remove call and thus can no
longer access struct simplefb_par.
Call simplefb_detach_genpds() explicitly from simplefb_destroy() like
the cleanup functions for clocks and regulators.
Fixes an use after free on M2 Mac mini during
aperture_remove_conflicting_devices() using the downstream asahi kernel
with Debian's kernel config. For unknown reasons this started to
consistently dereference an invalid pointer in v6.16.3 based kernels.
[    6.736134] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220
[    6.743545] Read of size 4 at addr ffff8000304743f0 by task (udev-worker)/227
[    6.750697]
[    6.752182] CPU: 6 UID: 0 PID: 227 Comm: (udev-worker) Tainted: G S                  6.16.3-asahi+ #16 PREEMPTLAZY
[    6.752186] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
[    6.752187] Hardware name: Apple Mac mini (M2, 2023) (DT)
[    6.752189] Call trace:
[    6.752190]  show_stack+0x34/0x98 (C)
[    6.752194]  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
[    6.752197]  print_report+0x17c/0x4d8
[    6.752201]  kasan_report+0xb4/0x100
[    6.752206]  __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x20/0x30
[    6.752209]  simplefb_detach_genpds+0x58/0x220
[    6.752213]  devm_action_release+0x50/0x98
[    6.752216]  release_nodes+0xd0/0x2c8
[    6.752219]  devres_release_all+0xfc/0x178
[    6.752221]  device_unbind_cleanup+0x28/0x168
[    6.752224]  device_release_driver_internal+0x34c/0x470
[    6.752228]  device_release_driver+0x20/0x38
[    6.752231]  bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380
[    6.752234]  device_del+0x314/0x820
[    6.752238]  platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8
[    6.752242]  platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50
[    6.752246]  aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30
[    6.752250]  aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290
[    6.752253]  aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50
...
[    6.752343]
[    6.967409] Allocated by task 62:
[    6.970724]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
[    6.974560]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40
[    6.978397]  kasan_save_alloc_info+0x40/0x58
[    6.982670]  __kasan_kmalloc+0xd4/0xd8
[    6.986420]  __kmalloc_noprof+0x194/0x540
[    6.990432]  framebuffer_alloc+0xc8/0x130
[    6.994444]  simplefb_probe+0x258/0x2378
...
[    7.054356]
[    7.055838] Freed by task 227:
[    7.058891]  kasan_save_stack+0x3c/0x70
[    7.062727]  kasan_save_track+0x20/0x40
[    7.066565]  kasan_save_free_info+0x4c/0x80
[    7.070751]  __kasan_slab_free+0x6c/0xa0
[    7.074675]  kfree+0x10c/0x380
[    7.077727]  framebuffer_release+0x5c/0x90
[    7.081826]  simplefb_destroy+0x1b4/0x2c0
[    7.085837]  put_fb_info+0x98/0x100
[    7.089326]  unregister_framebuffer+0x178/0x320
[    7.093861]  simplefb_remove+0x3c/0x60
[    7.097611]  platform_remove+0x60/0x98
[    7.101361]  device_remove+0xb8/0x160
[    7.105024]  device_release_driver_internal+0x2fc/0x470
[    7.110256]  device_release_driver+0x20/0x38
[    7.114529]  bus_remove_device+0x1b0/0x380
[    7.118628]  device_del+0x314/0x820
[    7.122116]  platform_device_del+0x3c/0x1e8
[    7.126302]  platform_device_unregister+0x20/0x50
[    7.131012]  aperture_detach_platform_device+0x1c/0x30
[    7.136157]  aperture_detach_devices+0x16c/0x290
[    7.140779]  aperture_remove_conflicting_devices+0x34/0x50
...
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-40037 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d and fixed in 6.12.53 with commit b1deb39cfd614fb2f278b71011692a8dbf0f05ba
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d and fixed in 6.17.3 with commit b6ff0d8de8452ec0e18e5bd7394c2a23e7ff7353
	Issue introduced in 6.8 with commit 92a511a568e44cf11681a2223cae4d576a1a515d and fixed in 6.18-rc1 with commit da1bb9135213744e7ec398826c8f2e843de4fb94
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-2025-40037
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/video/fbdev/simplefb.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/b1deb39cfd614fb2f278b71011692a8dbf0f05ba
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b6ff0d8de8452ec0e18e5bd7394c2a23e7ff7353
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da1bb9135213744e7ec398826c8f2e843de4fb94
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