linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-68265: nvme: fix admin request

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Message-ID: <2025121609-CVE-2025-68265-4800@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:47:10 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68265: nvme: fix admin request_queue lifetime

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

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

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

nvme: fix admin request_queue lifetime

The namespaces can access the controller's admin request_queue, and
stale references on the namespaces may exist after tearing down the
controller. Ensure the admin request_queue is active by moving the
controller's 'put' to after all controller references have been released
to ensure no one is can access the request_queue. This fixes a reported
use-after-free bug:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blk_queue_enter+0x41c/0x4a0
  Read of size 8 at addr ffff88c0a53819f8 by task nvme/3287
  CPU: 67 UID: 0 PID: 3287 Comm: nvme Tainted: G            E       6.13.2-ga1582f1a031e #15
  Tainted: [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
  Hardware name: Jabil /EGS 2S MB1, BIOS 1.00 06/18/2025
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   dump_stack_lvl+0x4f/0x60
   print_report+0xc4/0x620
   ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x70/0xb0
   ? _raw_read_unlock_irqrestore+0x30/0x30
   ? blk_queue_enter+0x41c/0x4a0
   kasan_report+0xab/0xe0
   ? blk_queue_enter+0x41c/0x4a0
   blk_queue_enter+0x41c/0x4a0
   ? __irq_work_queue_local+0x75/0x1d0
   ? blk_queue_start_drain+0x70/0x70
   ? irq_work_queue+0x18/0x20
   ? vprintk_emit.part.0+0x1cc/0x350
   ? wake_up_klogd_work_func+0x60/0x60
   blk_mq_alloc_request+0x2b7/0x6b0
   ? __blk_mq_alloc_requests+0x1060/0x1060
   ? __switch_to+0x5b7/0x1060
   nvme_submit_user_cmd+0xa9/0x330
   nvme_user_cmd.isra.0+0x240/0x3f0
   ? force_sigsegv+0xe0/0xe0
   ? nvme_user_cmd64+0x400/0x400
   ? vfs_fileattr_set+0x9b0/0x9b0
   ? cgroup_update_frozen_flag+0x24/0x1c0
   ? cgroup_leave_frozen+0x204/0x330
   ? nvme_ioctl+0x7c/0x2c0
   blkdev_ioctl+0x1a8/0x4d0
   ? blkdev_common_ioctl+0x1930/0x1930
   ? fdget+0x54/0x380
   __x64_sys_ioctl+0x129/0x190
   do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x160
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
  RIP: 0033:0x7f765f703b0b
  Code: ff ff ff 85 c0 79 9b 49 c7 c4 ff ff ff ff 5b 5d 4c 89 e0 41 5c c3 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa b8 10 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d dd 52 0f 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
  RSP: 002b:00007ffe2cefe808 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
  RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffe2cefe860 RCX: 00007f765f703b0b
  RDX: 00007ffe2cefe860 RSI: 00000000c0484e41 RDI: 0000000000000003
  RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 0000000000000000
  R10: 00007f765f611d50 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000003
  R13: 00000000c0484e41 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: 00007ffe2cefea60
   </TASK>

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68265 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.12.62 with commit e8061d02b49c5c901980f58d91e96580e9a14acf
	Fixed in 6.17.12 with commit e7dac681790556c131854b97551337aa8042215b
	Fixed in 6.18 with commit 03b3bcd319b3ab5182bc9aaa0421351572c78ac0

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-2025-68265
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/core.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/e8061d02b49c5c901980f58d91e96580e9a14acf
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e7dac681790556c131854b97551337aa8042215b
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/03b3bcd319b3ab5182bc9aaa0421351572c78ac0