CVE-2025-38106 (Moderate severity, published 2025-07-02)
CVSS score: 7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

io_uring: fix use-after-free of sq->thread in __io_uring_show_fdinfo()

syzbot reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810de2d2c8 by task a.out/304

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 304 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
 print_report+0xd0/0x670
 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
 ? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
 kasan_report+0xce/0x100
 ? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
 getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
 ? __pfx_getrusage+0x10/0x10
 __io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x9fe/0x1790
 ? ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
 ? do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
 ? vsnprintf+0x591/0x1100
 ? __pfx___io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_vsnprintf+0x10/0x10
 ? mutex_trylock+0xcf/0x130
 ? __pfx_mutex_trylock+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_show_fd_locks+0x10/0x10
 ? io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
 io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
 seq_show+0x38c/0x690
 seq_read_iter+0x3f7/0x1180
 ? inode_set_ctime_current+0x160/0x4b0
 seq_read+0x271/0x3e0
 ? __pfx_seq_read+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
 ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x402/0x810
 ? selinux_file_permission+0x368/0x500
 ? file_update_time+0x10f/0x160
 vfs_read+0x177/0xa40
 ? __pfx___handle_mm_fault+0x10/0x10
 ? __pfx_vfs_read+0x10/0x10
 ? mutex_lock+0x81/0xe0
 ? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
 ? fdget_pos+0x24d/0x4b0
 ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
 ? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10
 ? do_user_addr_fault+0x43b/0x9c0
 do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f74170fc9
Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 8
RSP: 002b:00007fffece049e8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0f74170fc9
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007fffece049f0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fffece05ad0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fffece04d90
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00005651720a1100
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 298:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
 __kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70
 kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0xe8/0x330
 copy_process+0x376/0x5e00
 create_io_thread+0xab/0xf0
 io_sq_offload_create+0x9ed/0xf20
 io_uring_setup+0x12b0/0x1cc0
 do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 22:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
 kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
 kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
 __kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50
 kmem_cache_free+0xc4/0x360
 rcu_core+0x5ff/0x19f0
 handle_softirqs+0x18c/0x530
 run_ksoftirqd+0x20/0x30
 smpboot_thread_fn+0x287/0x6c0
 kthread+0x30d/0x630
 ret_from_fork+0xef/0x1a0
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Last potentially related work creation:
 kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
 kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0
 __call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x68/0x940
 __schedule+0xff2/0x2930
 __cond_resched+0x4c/0x80
 mutex_lock+0x5c/0xe0
 io_uring_del_tctx_node+0xe1/0x2b0
 io_uring_clean_tctx+0xb7/0x160
 io_uring_cancel_generic+0x34e/0x760
 do_exit+0x240/0x2350
 do_group_exit+0xab/0x220
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x39/0x40
 x64_sys_call+0x1243/0x1840
 do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810de2cb00
 which belongs to the cache task_struct of size 3712
The buggy address is located 1992 bytes inside of
 freed 3712-byte region [ffff88810de2cb00, ffff88810de2d980)

which is caused by the task_struct pointed to by sq->thread being
released while it is being used in the function
__io_uring_show_fdinfo(). Holding ctx->uring_lock does not prevent ehre
relase or exit of sq->thread.

Fix this by assigning and looking up ->thread under RCU, and grabbing a
reference to the task_struct. This e
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