Bug 2393162 (CVE-2025-38717) - CVE-2025-38717 kernel: net: kcm: Fix race condition in kcm_unattach()
Summary: CVE-2025-38717 kernel: net: kcm: Fix race condition in kcm_unattach()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38717
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-04 16:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 07:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-04 16:01:55 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: kcm: Fix race condition in kcm_unattach()

syzbot found a race condition when kcm_unattach(psock)
and kcm_release(kcm) are executed at the same time.

kcm_unattach() is missing a check of the flag
kcm->tx_stopped before calling queue_work().

If the kcm has a reserved psock, kcm_unattach() might get executed
between cancel_work_sync() and unreserve_psock() in kcm_release(),
requeuing kcm->tx_work right before kcm gets freed in kcm_done().

Remove kcm->tx_stopped and replace it by the less
error-prone disable_work_sync().


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