CVE-2025-38129

page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring

published July 3, 2025

CVSS
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EPSS
0%
Percentile
8.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring

syzbot reported a uaf in page_pool_recycle_in_ring:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862

Read of size 8 at addr ffff8880286045a0 by task syz.0.284/6943

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6943 Comm: syz.0.284 Not tainted 6.13.0-rc3-syzkaller-gdfa94ce54f41 #0

Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 09/13/2024

Call Trace:

<TASK>

__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]

dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:120

print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline]

print_report+0x169/0x550 mm/kasan/report.c:489

kasan_report+0x143/0x180 mm/kasan/report.c:602

lock_release+0x151/0xa30 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5862

__raw_spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:165 [inline]

_raw_spin_unlock_bh+0x1b/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:210

spin_unlock_bh include/linux/spinlock.h:396 [inline]

ptr_ring_produce_bh include/linux/ptr_ring.h:164 [inline]

page_pool_recycle_in_ring net/core/page_pool.c:707 [inline]

page_pool_put_unrefed_netmem+0x748/0xb00 net/core/page_pool.c:826

page_pool_put_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:323 [inline]

page_pool_put_full_netmem include/net/page_pool/helpers.h:353 [inline]

napi_pp_put_page+0x149/0x2b0 net/core/skbuff.c:1036

skb_pp_recycle net/core/skbuff.c:1047 [inline]

skb_free_head net/core/skbuff.c:1094 [inline]

skb_release_data+0x6c4/0x8a0 net/core/skbuff.c:1125

skb_release_all net/core/skbuff.c:1190 [inline]

__kfree_skb net/core/skbuff.c:1204 [inline]

sk_skb_reason_drop+0x1c9/0x380 net/core/skbuff.c:1242

kfree_skb_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:1263 [inline]

__skb_queue_purge_reason include/linux/skbuff.h:3343 [inline]

root cause is:

page_pool_recycle_in_ring

ptr_ring_produce

spin_lock(&r->producer_lock);

WRITE_ONCE(r->queue[r->producer++], ptr)

//recycle last page to pool

page_pool_release

page_pool_scrub

page_pool_empty_ring

ptr_ring_consume

page_pool_return_page //release all page

__page_pool_destroy

free_percpu(pool->recycle_stats);

free(pool) //free

spin_unlock(&r->producer_lock); //pool->ring uaf read

recycle_stat_inc(pool, ring);

page_pool can be free while page pool recycle the last page in ring.

Add producer-lock barrier to page_pool_release to prevent the page

pool from being free before all pages have been recycled.

recycle_stat_inc() is empty when CONFIG_PAGE_POOL_STATS is not

enabled, which will trigger Wempty-body build warning. Add definition

for pool stat macro to fix warning.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00196 · 8.8th percentile
Published
2025-07-03T08:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 JUL 08:35Z
    page_pool: Fix use-after-free in page_pool_recycle_in_ring
    cvelistv5