CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-39736
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-09-11
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- 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-667
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
mm/kmemleak: avoid deadlock by moving pr_warn() outside kmemleak_lock
When netpoll is enabled, calling pr_warn_once() while holding
kmemleak_lock in mem_pool_alloc() can cause a deadlock due to lock
inversion with the netconsole subsystem. This occurs because
pr_warn_once() may trigger netpoll, which eventually leads to
__alloc_skb() and back into kmemleak code, attempting to reacquire
kmemleak_lock.
This is the path for the deadlock.
mem_pool_alloc()
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
-> pr_warn_once()
-> netconsole subsystem
-> netpoll
-> __alloc_skb
-> __create_object
-> raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&kmemleak_lock, flags);
Fix this by setting a flag and issuing the pr_warn_once() after
kmemleak_lock is released.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.4 < 5.4.297)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.241)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.190)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.149)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.103)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.43)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.15.11)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.16 < 6.16.2)
• linux linux kernel 6.17
• debian debian linux 11.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-667 Improper Locking weakness
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/08f70be5e406ce47c822f2dd11c1170ca259605b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1da95d3d4b7b1d380ebd87b71a61e7e6aed3265d Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/47b0f6d8f0d2be4d311a49e13d2fd5f152f492b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4b0151e1d468eb2667c37b7af99b3c075072d334 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/62879faa8efe8d8a9c7bf7606ee9c068012d7dac Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a0854de00ce2ee27edf39037e7836ad580eb3350 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a181b228b37a6a5625dad2bb4265bb7abb673e9f Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c7b6ea0ede687e7460e593c5ea478f50aa41682a Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f249d32bb54876b4b6c3ae071af8ddca77af390b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html cert-portal.siemens.com