CVE-2025-38444

raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request

published July 25, 2025

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
5.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request

If raid10_read_request or raid10_write_request registers a new

request and the REQ_NOWAIT flag is set, the code does not

free the malloc from the mempool.

unreferenced object 0xffff8884802c3200 (size 192):

comm "fio", pid 9197, jiffies 4298078271

hex dump (first 32 bytes):

00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........A......

08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................

backtrace (crc c1a049a2):

__kmalloc+0x2bb/0x450

mempool_alloc+0x11b/0x320

raid10_make_request+0x19e/0x650 [raid10]

md_handle_request+0x3b3/0x9e0

__submit_bio+0x394/0x560

__submit_bio_noacct+0x145/0x530

submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x682/0x830

__blkdev_direct_IO_async+0x4dc/0x6b0

blkdev_read_iter+0x1e5/0x3b0

__io_read+0x230/0x1110

io_read+0x13/0x30

io_issue_sqe+0x134/0x1180

io_submit_sqes+0x48c/0xe90

__do_sys_io_uring_enter+0x574/0x8b0

do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xe0

entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

V4: changing backing tree to see if CKI tests will pass.

The patch code has not changed between any versions.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00166 · 5.6th percentile
Published
2025-07-25T15:27Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 25 JUL 15:27Z
    raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request
    cvelistv5