CVE: CVE-2025-68260
Published: 2025-12-16
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

rust_binder: fix race condition on death_list

Rust Binder contains the following unsafe operation:

	// SAFETY: A `NodeDeath` is never inserted into the death list
	// of any node other than its owner, so it is either in this
	// death list or in no death list.
	unsafe { node_inner.death_list.remove(self) };

This operation is unsafe because when touching the prev/next pointers of
a list element, we have to ensure that no other thread is also touching
them in parallel. If the node is present in the list that `remove` is
called on, then that is fine because we have exclusive access to that
list. If the node is not in any list, then it's also ok. But if it's
present in a different list that may be accessed in parallel, then that
may be a data race on the prev/next pointers.

And unfortunately that is exactly what is happening here. In
Node::release, we:

 1. Take the lock.
 2. Move all items to a local list on the stack.
 3. Drop the lock.
 4. Iterate the local list on the stack.

Combined with threads using the unsafe remove method on the original
list, this leads to memory corruption of the prev/next pointers. This
leads to crashes like this one:

	Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000bb9841bcac70e
	Mem abort info:
	  ESR = 0x[PII_REDACTED]000044
	  EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits
	  SET = 0, FnV = 0
	  EA = 0, S1PTW = 0
	  FSC = 0x04: level 0 translation fault
	Data abort info:
	  ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000044, ISS2 = 0x00000000
	  CM = 0, WnR = 1, TnD = 0, TagAccess = 0
	  GCS = 0, Overlay = 0, DirtyBit = 0, Xs = 0
	[000bb9841bcac70e] address between user and kernel address ranges
	Internal error: Oops: [PII_REDACTED] [#1] PREEMPT SMP
	google-cdd 538c004.gcdd: context saved(CPU:1)
	item - log_kevents is disabled
	Modules linked in: ... rust_binder
	CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2092 Comm: kworker/1:178 Tainted: G S      W  OE      6.12.52-android16-5-g98debd5df505-4k #1 f94a6367396c5488d635708e43ee0c888d230b0b
	Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN, [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
	Hardware name: MUSTANG PVT 1.0 based on LGA (DT)
	Workqueue: events _RNvXs6_NtCsdfZWD8DztAw_6kernel9workqueueINtNtNtB7_4sync3arc3ArcNtNtCs8QPsHWIn21X_16rust_binder_main7process7ProcessEINtB5_15WorkItemPointerKy0_E3runB13_ [rust_binder]
	pstate: 23400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO +TCO +DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
	pc : _RNvXs3_NtCs8QPsHWIn21X_16rust_binder_main7processNtB5_7ProcessNtNtCsdfZWD8DztAw_6kernel9workqueue8WorkItem3run+0x450/0x11f8 [rust_binder]
	lr : _RNvXs3_NtCs8QPsHWIn21X_16rust_binder_main7processNtB5_7ProcessNtNtCsdfZWD8DztAw_6kernel9workqueue8WorkItem3run+0x464/0x11f8 [rust_binder]
	sp : ffffffc09b433ac0
	x29: ffffffc09b433d30 x28: ffffff[PII_REDACTED] x27: ffffffd40cbaa448
	x26: ffffff[PII_REDACTED] x25: 00000000ffffffff x24: ffffff88d0376578
	x23: [PII_REDACTED] x22: ffffffc09b433c78 x21: ffffff88e8f9bf40
	x20: ffffff88e8f9bf40 x19: ffffff882692b000 x18: ffffffd40f10bf00
	x17: 00000000c006287d x16: 00000000c006287d x15:[PII_REDACTED]0003b0
	x14: [PII_REDACTED] x13: 000000201cb79ae0 x12: fffffffffffffff0
	x11: [PII_REDACTED] x10: [PII_REDACTED] x9 : [PII_REDACTED]
	x8 : b80bb9841bcac706 x7 : [PII_REDACTED] x6 : fffffffebee63f30
	x5 : [PII_REDACTED] x4 : [PII_REDACTED] x3 : [PII_REDACTED]
	x2 :[PII_REDACTED]004c31 x1 : ffffff88216900c0 x0 : ffffff88e8f9bf00
	Call trace:
	 _RNvXs3_NtCs8QPsHWIn21X_16rust_binder_main7processNtB5_7ProcessNtNtCsdfZWD8DztAw_6kernel9workqueue8WorkItem3run+0x450/0x11f8 [rust_binder bbc172b53665bbc815363b22e97e3f7e3fe971fc]
	 process_scheduled_works+0x1c4/0x45c
	 worker_thread+0x32c/0x3e8
	 kthread+0x11c/0x1c8
	 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20
	Code: 94218d85 b4000155 a94026a8 d10102a0 (f9000509)
	---[ end trace [PII_REDACTED] ]---

Thus, modify Node::release to pop items directly off the original list.
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/[PII_REDACTED]096d32f830a7fcfc7885dd263e511a; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e0ae02ba831da2b707905f4e602e43f8507b8cc