CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-38444
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-07-25
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-401
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.15.111 < 5.15.189)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.17 < 6.1.146)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.99)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.39)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.7)
• linux linux kernel 6.16
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-401 Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2941155d9a5ae098b480d551f3a5f8605d4f9af5 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8fc3d7b23d139e3cbc944c15d99b3cdbed797d2d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9af149ca9d0dab6e59e813519d309eff62499864 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed7bcd9f617e4107ac0813c516e72e6b8f6029bd Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Third Party Advisory