Bug 2397562 (CVE-2025-39871) - CVE-2025-39871 kernel: dmaengine: idxd: Remove improper idxd_free
Summary: CVE-2025-39871 kernel: dmaengine: idxd: Remove improper idxd_free
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-39871
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-09-23 07:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-11-26 11:16 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-09-23 07:01:50 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

dmaengine: idxd: Remove improper idxd_free

The call to idxd_free() introduces a duplicate put_device() leading to a
reference count underflow:
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 4428 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xbe/0x110
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  idxd_remove+0xe4/0x120 [idxd]
  pci_device_remove+0x3f/0xb0
  device_release_driver_internal+0x197/0x200
  driver_detach+0x48/0x90
  bus_remove_driver+0x74/0xf0
  pci_unregister_driver+0x2e/0xb0
  idxd_exit_module+0x34/0x7a0 [idxd]
  __do_sys_delete_module.constprop.0+0x183/0x280
  do_syscall_64+0x54/0xd70
  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The idxd_unregister_devices() which is invoked at the very beginning of
idxd_remove(), already takes care of the necessary put_device() through the
following call path:
idxd_unregister_devices() -> device_unregister() -> put_device()

In addition, when CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is enabled, put_device() may
trigger asynchronous cleanup via schedule_delayed_work(). If idxd_free() is
called immediately after, it can result in a use-after-free.

Remove the improper idxd_free() to avoid both the refcount underflow and
potential memory corruption during module unload.


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