CVE-2025-38256
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
09/07/2025
Last modified:
19/11/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
io_uring/rsrc: fix folio unpinning<br />
<br />
syzbot complains about an unmapping failure:<br />
<br />
[ 108.070381][ T14] kernel BUG at mm/gup.c:71!<br />
[ 108.070502][ T14] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP<br />
[ 108.123672][ T14] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250221-8.fc42 02/21/2025<br />
[ 108.127458][ T14] Workqueue: iou_exit io_ring_exit_work<br />
[ 108.174205][ T14] Call trace:<br />
[ 108.175649][ T14] sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x7cc/0x7d0 (P)<br />
[ 108.178138][ T14] unpin_user_page+0x80/0x10c<br />
[ 108.180189][ T14] io_release_ubuf+0x84/0xf8<br />
[ 108.182196][ T14] io_free_rsrc_node+0x250/0x57c<br />
[ 108.184345][ T14] io_rsrc_data_free+0x148/0x298<br />
[ 108.186493][ T14] io_sqe_buffers_unregister+0x84/0xa0<br />
[ 108.188991][ T14] io_ring_ctx_free+0x48/0x480<br />
[ 108.191057][ T14] io_ring_exit_work+0x764/0x7d8<br />
[ 108.193207][ T14] process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c<br />
[ 108.195431][ T14] worker_thread+0x958/0xed8<br />
[ 108.197561][ T14] kthread+0x5fc/0x75c<br />
[ 108.199362][ T14] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20<br />
<br />
We can pin a tail page of a folio, but then io_uring will try to unpin<br />
the head page of the folio. While it should be fine in terms of keeping<br />
the page actually alive, mm folks say it&#39;s wrong and triggers a debug<br />
warning. Use unpin_user_folio() instead of unpin_user_page*.<br />
<br />
[axboe: adapt to current tree, massage commit message]
Impact
Base Score 3.x
5.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.12 (including) | 6.12.36 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 6.13 (including) | 6.15.5 (excluding) |
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page



