Bug 2435662 (CVE-2025-71181)

Summary: CVE-2025-71181 kernel: rust_binder: remove spin_lock() in rust_shrink_free_page()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-31 12:02:22 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rust_binder: remove spin_lock() in rust_shrink_free_page()

When forward-porting Rust Binder to 6.18, I neglected to take commit
fb56fdf8b9a2 ("mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope") into
account, and apparently I did not end up running the shrinker callback
when I sanity tested the driver before submission. This leads to crashes
like the following:

	============================================
	WARNING: possible recursive locking detected
	6.18.0-mainline-maybe-dirty #1 Tainted: G          IO
	--------------------------------------------
	kswapd0/68 is trying to acquire lock:
	ffff956000fa18b0 (&l->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: lock_list_lru_of_memcg+0x128/0x230

	but task is already holding lock:
	ffff956000fa18b0 (&l->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: rust_helper_spin_lock+0xd/0x20

	other info that might help us debug this:
	 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

	       CPU0
	       ----
	  lock(&l->lock);
	  lock(&l->lock);

	 *** DEADLOCK ***

	 May be due to missing lock nesting notation

	3 locks held by kswapd0/68:
	 #0: ffffffff90d2e260 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0x597/0x1160
	 #1: ffff956000fa18b0 (&l->lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: rust_helper_spin_lock+0xd/0x20
	 #2: ffffffff90cf3680 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: lock_list_lru_of_memcg+0x2d/0x230

To fix this, remove the spin_lock() call from rust_shrink_free_page().