CVE-2025-38256

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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

io_uring/rsrc: fix folio unpinning

syzbot complains about an unmapping failure:

[ 108.070381][ T14] kernel BUG at mm/gup.c:71! [ 108.070502][ T14] Internal error: Oops - BUG: 00000000f2000800 [#1] SMP [ 108.123672][ T14] Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS edk2-20250221-8.fc42 02/21/2025 [ 108.127458][ T14] Workqueue: iou_exit io_ring_exit_work [ 108.174205][ T14] Call trace: [ 108.175649][ T14] sanity_check_pinned_pages+0x7cc/0x7d0 (P) [ 108.178138][ T14] unpin_user_page+0x80/0x10c [ 108.180189][ T14] io_release_ubuf+0x84/0xf8 [ 108.182196][ T14] io_free_rsrc_node+0x250/0x57c [ 108.184345][ T14] io_rsrc_data_free+0x148/0x298 [ 108.186493][ T14] io_sqe_buffers_unregister+0x84/0xa0 [ 108.188991][ T14] io_ring_ctx_free+0x48/0x480 [ 108.191057][ T14] io_ring_exit_work+0x764/0x7d8 [ 108.193207][ T14] process_one_work+0x7e8/0x155c [ 108.195431][ T14] worker_thread+0x958/0xed8 [ 108.197561][ T14] kthread+0x5fc/0x75c [ 108.199362][ T14] ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

We can pin a tail page of a folio, but then io_uring will try to unpin the head page of the folio. While it should be fine in terms of keeping the page actually alive, mm folks say it's wrong and triggers a debug warning. Use unpin_user_folio() instead of unpin_user_page*.

[axboe: adapt to current tree, massage commit message]

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 5.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
LinuxLinux>= a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d, < 53fd75f25b223878b5fff14932e3a22f42b54f77; >= a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d, < 11e7b7369e655e6131387b174218d7fa9557b3da; >= a8edbb424b1391b077407c75d8f5d2ede77aa70d, < 5afb4bf9fc62d828647647ec31745083637132e4
LinuxLinux6.12

References

Timeline

Published
Jul 9, 2025
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Analyzed

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CVE-2025-38256: Medium severity, CVSS 5.5 | Vulnix