CVE-2025-21631 (published 2025-01-19)
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

block, bfq: fix waker_bfqq UAF after bfq_split_bfqq()

Our syzkaller report a following UAF for v6.6:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in bfq_init_rq+0x175d/0x17a0 block/bfq-iosched.c:6958
Read of size 8 at addr ffff8881b57147d8 by task fsstress/232726

CPU: 2 PID: 232726 Comm: fsstress Not tainted 6.6.0-g3629d1885222 #39
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
 dump_stack_lvl+0x91/0xf0 lib/dump_stack.c:106
 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x66/0x300 mm/kasan/report.c:364
 print_report+0x3e/0x70 mm/kasan/report.c:475
 kasan_report+0xb8/0xf0 mm/kasan/report.c:588
 hlist_add_head include/linux/list.h:1023 [inline]
 bfq_init_rq+0x175d/0x17a0 block/bfq-iosched.c:6958
 bfq_insert_request.isra.0+0xe8/0xa20 block/bfq-iosched.c:6271
 bfq_insert_requests+0x27f/0x390 block/bfq-iosched.c:6323
 blk_mq_insert_request+0x290/0x8f0 block/blk-mq.c:2660
 blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1021/0x15e0 block/blk-mq.c:3143
 __submit_bio+0xa0/0x6b0 block/blk-core.c:639
 __submit_bio_noacct_mq block/blk-core.c:718 [inline]
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x5b7/0x810 block/blk-core.c:747
 submit_bio_noacct+0xca0/0x1990 block/blk-core.c:847
 __ext4_read_bh fs/ext4/super.c:205 [inline]
 ext4_read_bh+0x15e/0x2e0 fs/ext4/super.c:230
 __read_extent_tree_block+0x304/0x6f0 fs/ext4/extents.c:567
 ext4_find_extent+0x479/0xd20 fs/ext4/extents.c:947
 ext4_ext_map_blocks+0x1a3/0x2680 fs/ext4/extents.c:4182
 ext4_map_blocks+0x929/0x15a0 fs/ext4/inode.c:660
 ext4_iomap_begin_report+0x298/0x480 fs/ext4/inode.c:3569
 iomap_iter+0x3dd/0x1010 fs/iomap/iter.c:91
 iomap_fiemap+0x1f4/0x360 fs/iomap/fiemap.c:80
 ext4_fiemap+0x181/0x210 fs/ext4/extents.c:5051
 ioctl_fiemap.isra.0+0x1b4/0x290 fs/ioctl.c:220
 do_vfs_ioctl+0x31c/0x11a0 fs/ioctl.c:811
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:869 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xae/0x190 fs/ioctl.c:857
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0x70/0x120 arch/x86/entry/common.c:81
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x78/0xe2

Allocated by task 232719:
 kasan_save_stack+0x22/0x50 mm/kasan/common.c:45
 kasan_set_track+0x25/0x30 mm/kasan/common.c:52
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x87/0x90 mm/kasan/common.c:328
 kasan_slab_alloc include/linux/kasan.h:188 [inline]
 slab_post_alloc_hook mm/slab.h:768 [inline]
 slab_alloc_node mm/slub.c:3492 [inline]
 kmem_cache_alloc_node+0x1b8/0x6f0 mm/slub.c:3537
 bfq_get_queue+0x215/0x1f00 block/bfq-iosched.c:5869
 bfq_get_bfqq_handle_split+0x167/0x5f0 block/bfq-iosched.c:6776
 bfq_init_rq+0x13a4/0x17a0 block/bfq-iosched.c:6938
 bfq_insert_request.isra.0+0xe8/0xa20 block/bfq-iosched.c:6271
 bfq_insert_requests+0x27f/0x390 block/bfq-iosched.c:6323
 blk_mq_insert_request+0x290/0x8f0 block/blk-mq.c:2660
 blk_mq_submit_bio+0x1021/0x15e0 block/blk-mq.c:3143
 __submit_bio+0xa0/0x6b0 block/blk-core.c:639
 __submit_bio_noacct_mq block/blk-core.c:718 [inline]
 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x5b7/0x810 block/blk-core.c:747
 submit_bio_noacct+0xca0/0x1990 block/blk-core.c:847
 __ext4_read_bh fs/ext4/super.c:205 [inline]
 ext4_read_bh_nowait+0x15a/0x240 fs/ext4/super.c:217
 ext4_read_bh_lock+0xac/0xd0 fs/ext4/super.c:242
 ext4_bread_batch+0x268/0x500 fs/ext4/inode.c:958
 __ext4_find_entry+0x448/0x10f0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1671
 ext4_lookup_entry fs/ext4/namei.c:1774 [inline]
 ext4_lookup.part.0+0x359/0x6f0 fs/ext4/namei.c:1842
 ext4_lookup+0x72/0x90 fs/ext4/namei.c:1839
 __lookup_slow+0x257/0x480 fs/namei.c:1696
 lookup_slow fs/namei.c:1713 [inline]
 walk_component+0x454/0x5c0 fs/namei.c:2004
 link_path_walk.part.0+0x773/0xda0 fs/namei.c:2331
 link_path_walk fs/namei.c:3826 [inline]
 path_openat+0x1b9/0x520 fs/namei.c:3826
 do_filp_open+0x1b7/0x400 fs/namei.c:3857
 do_sys_openat2+0x5dc/0x6e0 fs/open.c:1428
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1443 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1459 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1454 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x148/0x200 fs/open.c:1454
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:51 [inline]
 do_syscall_6
---truncated---
Severity: HIGH (CVSS 3.1 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Weakness: CWE-416
Affected vendors: linux
Affected products: linux_kernel