Bug 2348600 (CVE-2025-21726) - CVE-2025-21726 kernel: padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work
Summary: CVE-2025-21726 kernel: padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-21726
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
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Reported: 2025-02-27 03:04 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-03-06 16:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-02-27 03:04:41 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

padata: avoid UAF for reorder_work

Although the previous patch can avoid ps and ps UAF for _do_serial, it
can not avoid potential UAF issue for reorder_work. This issue can
happen just as below:

crypto_request			crypto_request		crypto_del_alg
padata_do_serial
  ...
  padata_reorder
    // processes all remaining
    // requests then breaks
    while (1) {
      if (!padata)
        break;
      ...
    }

				padata_do_serial
				  // new request added
				  list_add
    // sees the new request
    queue_work(reorder_work)
				  padata_reorder
				    queue_work_on(squeue->work)
...

				<kworker context>
				padata_serial_worker
				// completes new request,
				// no more outstanding
				// requests

							crypto_del_alg
							  // free pd

<kworker context>
invoke_padata_reorder
  // UAF of pd

To avoid UAF for 'reorder_work', get 'pd' ref before put 'reorder_work'
into the 'serial_wq' and put 'pd' ref until the 'serial_wq' finish.


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