High · published September 17, 2026
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
nvdimm: virtio_pmem: refcount requests for token lifetime
KASAN reports slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common():
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810fdcb710 by task swapper/0/0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
6.19.0-next-20260220-00006-g1eae5f204ec3 #4 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux
1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
dump_stack_lvl+0x6d/0xb0
print_report+0x170/0x4e2
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? __virt_addr_valid+0x1dc/0x380
kasan_report+0xbc/0xf0
? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
? __wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
__wake_up_common+0x114/0x160
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
__wake_up+0x36/0x60
virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x11d/0x3b0
? sched_balance_domains+0x29f/0xb00
? __pfx_virtio_pmem_host_ack+0x10/0x10
? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x98/0x100
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
vring_interrupt+0x1c9/0x5e0
? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10
vp_vring_interrupt+0x87/0x100
? __pfx_vp_interrupt+0x10/0x10
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x17f/0x550
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
handle_irq_event+0xab/0x1c0
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x276/0xae0
__common_interrupt+0x65/0x130
common_interrupt+0x78/0xa0
</IRQ>
virtio_pmem_host_ack() wakes a request that has already been freed by the
submitter.
This happens when the request token is still reachable via the virtqueue,
but virtio_pmem_flush() returns and frees it.
Fix the token lifetime by refcounting struct virtio_pmem_request.
virtio_pmem_flush() holds a submitter reference, and the virtqueue holds an
extra reference once the request is queued. The completion path drops the
virtqueue reference, and the submitter drops its reference before
returning.