linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-68199: codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj

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Message-ID: <2025121630-CVE-2025-68199-c244@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:54:28 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68199: codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext

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

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

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

codetag: debug: handle existing CODETAG_EMPTY in mark_objexts_empty for slabobj_ext

When alloc_slab_obj_exts() fails and then later succeeds in allocating a
slab extension vector, it calls handle_failed_objexts_alloc() to mark all
objects in the vector as empty.  As a result all objects in this slab
(slabA) will have their extensions set to CODETAG_EMPTY.

Later on if this slabA is used to allocate a slabobj_ext vector for
another slab (slabB), we end up with the slabB->obj_exts pointing to a
slabobj_ext vector that itself has a non-NULL slabobj_ext equal to
CODETAG_EMPTY.  When slabB gets freed, free_slab_obj_exts() is called to
free slabB->obj_exts vector.  

free_slab_obj_exts() calls mark_objexts_empty(slabB->obj_exts) which will
generate a warning because it expects slabobj_ext vectors to have a NULL
obj_ext, not CODETAG_EMPTY.

Modify mark_objexts_empty() to skip the warning and setting the obj_ext
value if it's already set to CODETAG_EMPTY.


To quickly detect this WARN, I modified the code from
WARN_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct) to BUG_ON(slab_exts[offs].ref.ct == 1);

We then obtained this message:

[21630.898561] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[21630.898596] kernel BUG at mm/slub.c:2050!
[21630.898611] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP
[21630.900372] Modules linked in: squashfs isofs vfio_iommu_type1 
vhost_vsock vfio vhost_net vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vhost tap 
vhost_iotlb iommufd vsock binfmt_misc nfsv3 nfs_acl nfs lockd grace 
netfs tls rds dns_resolver tun brd overlay ntfs3 exfat btrfs 
blake2b_generic xor xor_neon raid6_pq loop sctp ip6_udp_tunnel 
udp_tunnel nft_fib_inet nft_fib_ipv4 nft_fib_ipv6 nft_fib 
nft_reject_inet nf_reject_ipv4 nf_reject_ipv6 nft_reject nft_ct 
nft_chain_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack nf_defrag_ipv6 nf_defrag_ipv4 
nf_tables rfkill ip_set sunrpc vfat fat joydev sg sch_fq_codel nfnetlink 
virtio_gpu sr_mod cdrom drm_client_lib virtio_dma_buf drm_shmem_helper 
drm_kms_helper drm ghash_ce backlight virtio_net virtio_blk virtio_scsi 
net_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio dm_mirror 
dm_region_hash dm_log dm_multipath dm_mod fuse i2c_dev virtio_pci 
virtio_pci_legacy_dev virtio_pci_modern_dev virtio virtio_ring autofs4 
aes_neon_bs aes_ce_blk [last unloaded: hwpoison_inject]
[21630.909177] CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 3787 Comm: kylin-process-m Kdump: 
loaded Tainted: G        W           6.18.0-rc1+ #74 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[21630.910495] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[21630.910867] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS unknown 
2/2/2022
[21630.911625] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS 
BTYPE=--)
[21630.912392] pc : __free_slab+0x228/0x250
[21630.912868] lr : __free_slab+0x18c/0x250[21630.913334] sp : 
ffff8000a02f73e0
[21630.913830] x29: ffff8000a02f73e0 x28: fffffdffc43fc800 x27: 
ffff0000c0011c40
[21630.914677] x26: ffff0000c000cac0 x25: ffff00010fe5e5f0 x24: 
ffff000102199b40
[21630.915469] x23: 0000000000000003 x22: 0000000000000003 x21: 
ffff0000c0011c40
[21630.916259] x20: fffffdffc4086600 x19: fffffdffc43fc800 x18: 
0000000000000000
[21630.917048] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 
0000000000000000
[21630.917837] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 
ffff70001405ee66
[21630.918640] x11: 1ffff0001405ee65 x10: ffff70001405ee65 x9 : 
ffff800080a295dc
[21630.919442] x8 : ffff8000a02f7330 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 
0000000000003000
[21630.920232] x5 : 0000000024924925 x4 : 0000000000000001 x3 : 
0000000000000007
[21630.921021] x2 : 0000000000001b40 x1 : 000000000000001f x0 : 
0000000000000001
[21630.921810] Call trace:
[21630.922130]  __free_slab+0x228/0x250 (P)
[21630.922669]  free_slab+0x38/0x118
[21630.923079]  free_to_partial_list+0x1d4/0x340
[21630.923591]  __slab_free+0x24c/0x348
[21630.924024]  ___cache_free+0xf0/0x110
[21630.924468]  qlist_free_all+0x78/0x130
[21630.924922]  kasan_quarantine_reduce+0x114/0x148
[21630.925525]  __kasan_slab_alloc+0x7c/0xb0
[21630.926006]  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x164/0x5c8
[21630.926699]  __alloc_object+0x44/0x1f8
[21630.927153]  __create_object+0x34/0xc8
[21630.927604]  kmemleak_alloc+0xb8/0xd8
[21630.928052]  kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x368/0x5c8
[21630.928606]  getname_flags.part.0+0xa4/0x610
[21630.929112]  getname_flags+0x80/0xd8
[21630.929557]  vfs_fstatat+0xc8/0xe0
[21630.929975]  __do_sys_newfstatat+0xa0/0x100
[21630.930469]  __arm64_sys_newfstatat+0x90/0xd8
[21630.931046]  invoke_syscall+0xd4/0x258
[21630.931685]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0x240
[21630.932467]  do_el0_svc+0x48/0x68
[21630.932972]  el0_svc+0x40/0xe0
[21630.933472]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa0/0xe8
[21630.934151]  el0t_64_sync+0x1ac/0x1b0
[21630.934923] Code: aa1803e0 97ffef2b a9446bf9 17ffff9c (d4210000)
[21630.936461] SMP: stopping secondary CPUs
[21630.939550] Starting crashdump kernel...
[21630.940108] Bye!

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68199 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f and fixed in 6.12.59 with commit fc6acd4cddf76e7eb7db63649fe36980ce208f56
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f and fixed in 6.17.9 with commit 3f56c407feb967e6faeb4e2e04eaa8edc206a686
	Issue introduced in 6.10 with commit 09c46563ff6d5f090211e48ff1fdba0ec7f4c97f and fixed in 6.18 with commit 1abbdf3d57aa964e572940d67c9ec5dc87710738

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-2025-68199
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:
	mm/slub.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/fc6acd4cddf76e7eb7db63649fe36980ce208f56
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3f56c407feb967e6faeb4e2e04eaa8edc206a686
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1abbdf3d57aa964e572940d67c9ec5dc87710738