Bug 2376095 (CVE-2025-38102)

Summary: CVE-2025-38102 kernel: VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-03 09:04:48 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

VMCI: fix race between vmci_host_setup_notify and vmci_ctx_unset_notify

During our test, it is found that a warning can be trigger in try_grab_folio
as follow:

  ------------[ cut here ]------------
  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1678 at mm/gup.c:147 try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
  Modules linked in:
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1678 Comm: syz.3.31 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5 #163 PREEMPT(undef)
  RIP: 0010:try_grab_folio+0x106/0x130
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   follow_huge_pmd+0x240/0x8e0
   follow_pmd_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x40b/0x5c0
   follow_pud_mask.constprop.0.isra.0+0x14a/0x170
   follow_page_mask+0x1c2/0x1f0
   __get_user_pages+0x176/0x950
   __gup_longterm_locked+0x15b/0x1060
   ? gup_fast+0x120/0x1f0
   gup_fast_fallback+0x17e/0x230
   get_user_pages_fast+0x5f/0x80
   vmci_host_unlocked_ioctl+0x21c/0xf80
  RIP: 0033:0x54d2cd
  ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Digging into the source, context->notify_page may init by get_user_pages_fast
and can be seen in vmci_ctx_unset_notify which will try to put_page. However
get_user_pages_fast is not finished here and lead to following
try_grab_folio warning. The race condition is shown as follow:

cpu0			cpu1
vmci_host_do_set_notify
vmci_host_setup_notify
get_user_pages_fast(uva, 1, FOLL_WRITE, &context->notify_page);
lockless_pages_from_mm
gup_pgd_range
gup_huge_pmd  // update &context->notify_page
			vmci_host_do_set_notify
			vmci_ctx_unset_notify
			notify_page = context->notify_page;
			if (notify_page)
			put_page(notify_page);	// page is freed
__gup_longterm_locked
__get_user_pages
follow_trans_huge_pmd
try_grab_folio // warn here

To slove this, use local variable page to make notify_page can be seen
after finish get_user_pages_fast.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-07-03 14:10:21 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025070321-CVE-2025-38102-d592@gregkh/T