Bug 2429585 (CVE-2025-71110) - CVE-2025-71110 kernel: mm/slub: reset KASAN tag in defer_free() before accessing freed memory
Summary: CVE-2025-71110 kernel: mm/slub: reset KASAN tag in defer_free() before access...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71110
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-01-14 16:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-14 20:37 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-14 16:02:20 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

mm/slub: reset KASAN tag in defer_free() before accessing freed memory

When CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is enabled, kfree_nolock() calls kasan_slab_free()
before defer_free(). On ARM64 with MTE (Memory Tagging Extension),
kasan_slab_free() poisons the memory and changes the tag from the
original (e.g., 0xf3) to a poison tag (0xfe).

When defer_free() then tries to write to the freed object to build the
deferred free list via llist_add(), the pointer still has the old tag,
causing a tag mismatch and triggering a KASAN use-after-free report:

  BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in defer_free+0x3c/0xbc mm/slub.c:6537
  Write at addr f3f000000854f020 by task kworker/u8:6/983
  Pointer tag: [f3], memory tag: [fe]

Fix this by calling kasan_reset_tag() before accessing the freed memory.
This is safe because defer_free() is part of the allocator itself and is
expected to manipulate freed memory for bookkeeping purposes.


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