Linux: >> Linux Kernel >> 6.6.144 Security Vulnerabilities
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
KVM: SVM: Add missing save/restore handling of LBR MSRs
MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR and LBR MSRs are currently not enumerated by
KVM_GET_MSR_INDEX_LIST, and LBR MSRs cannot be set with KVM_SET_MSRS. So
save/restore is completely broken.
Fix it by adding the MSRs to msrs_to_save_base, and allowing writes to
LBR MSRs from userspace only (as they are read-only MSRs) if LBR
virtualization is enabled. Additionally, to correctly restore L1's LBRs
while L2 is running, make sure the LBRs are copied from the captured
VMCB01 save area in svm_copy_vmrun_state().
Note, for VMX, this also fixes a flaw where MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR isn't
reported as an MSR to save/restore.
Note #2, over-reporting MSR_IA32_LASTxxx on Intel is ok, as KVM already
handles unsupported reads and writes thanks to commit b5e2fec0ebc3 ("KVM:
Ignore DEBUGCTL MSRs with no effect") (kvm_do_msr_access() will morph the
unsupported userspace write into a nop).
[sean: guard with lbrv checks, massage changelog]
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Fix UMR hang in LAG error state unload
During firmware reset in LAG mode, a race condition causes the driver
to hang indefinitely while waiting for UMR completion during device
unload. See [1].
In LAG mode the bond device is only registered on the master, so it
never sees sys_error events from the slave.
During firmware reset this causes UMR waits to hang forever on unload
as the slave is dead but the master hasn't entered error state yet, so
UMR posts succeed but completions never arrive.
Fix this by adding a sys_error notifier that gets registered before
MLX5_IB_STAGE_IB_REG and stays alive until after ib_unregister_device().
This ensures error events reach the bond device throughout teardown.
[1]
Call Trace:
__schedule+0x2bd/0x760
schedule+0x37/0xa0
schedule_preempt_disabled+0xa/0x10
__mutex_lock.isra.6+0x2b5/0x4a0
__mlx5_ib_dereg_mr+0x606/0x870 [mlx5_ib]
? __xa_erase+0x4a/0xa0
? _cond_resched+0x15/0x30
? wait_for_completion+0x31/0x100
ib_dereg_mr_user+0x48/0xc0 [ib_core]
? rdmacg_uncharge_hierarchy+0xa0/0x100
destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs]
uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x37/0x150 [ib_uverbs]
__uverbs_cleanup_ufile+0xda/0x140 [ib_uverbs]
uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0x3a/0xf0 [ib_uverbs]
ib_uverbs_remove_one+0xc3/0x140 [ib_uverbs]
remove_client_context+0x8b/0xd0 [ib_core]
disable_device+0x8c/0x130 [ib_core]
__ib_unregister_device+0x10d/0x180 [ib_core]
ib_unregister_device+0x21/0x30 [ib_core]
__mlx5_ib_remove+0x1e4/0x1f0 [mlx5_ib]
auxiliary_bus_remove+0x1e/0x30
device_release_driver_internal+0x103/0x1f0
bus_remove_device+0xf7/0x170
device_del+0x181/0x410
mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.10+0xa9/0x1d0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_disable_lag+0x253/0x260 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_lag_disable_change+0x89/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_eswitch_disable+0x67/0xa0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_unload+0x15/0xd0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_unload_one+0x71/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_sync_reset_reload_work+0x83/0x100 [mlx5_core]
process_one_work+0x1a7/0x360
worker_thread+0x30/0x390
? create_worker+0x1a0/0x1a0
kthread+0x116/0x130
? kthread_flush_work_fn+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x40
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
ASoC: nau8821: Cancel delayed work on component remove
Attempting to unload the driver while a jack detection work is pending
would likely crash the kernel when it is eventually scheduled for
execution:
[ 1984.896308] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffc10c2a20
[...]
[ 1984.896388] Hardware name: Valve Jupiter/Jupiter, BIOS F7A0131 01/30/2024
[ 1984.896396] Workqueue: events nau8821_jdet_work [snd_soc_nau8821]
[ 1984.896414] RIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0x9f/0x11d0
[...]
[ 1984.896504] Call Trace:
[ 1984.896511] <TASK>
[ 1984.896524] ? snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896572] ? snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896596] snd_soc_dapm_disable_pin+0x26/0x60 [snd_soc_core]
[ 1984.896622] nau8821_jdet_work+0xeb/0x1e0 [snd_soc_nau8821]
[ 1984.896636] process_one_work+0x211/0x590
[ 1984.896649] ? srso_return_thunk+0x5/0x5f
[ 1984.896670] worker_thread+0x1cd/0x3a0
Cancel unscheduled jdet_work or wait for its execution to finish before
the component driver gets removed.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
gfs2: fix memory leaks in gfs2_fill_super error path
Fix two memory leaks in the gfs2_fill_super() error handling path when
transitioning a filesystem to read-write mode fails.
First leak: kthread objects (thread_struct, task_struct, etc.)
When gfs2_freeze_lock_shared() fails after init_threads() succeeds, the
created kernel threads (logd and quotad) are never destroyed. This
occurs because the fail_per_node label doesn't call
gfs2_destroy_threads().
Second leak: quota bitmap buffer (8192 bytes)
When gfs2_make_fs_rw() fails after gfs2_quota_init() succeeds but
before other operations complete, the allocated quota bitmap is never
freed.
The fix moves thread cleanup to the fail_per_node label to handle all
error paths uniformly. gfs2_destroy_threads() is safe to call
unconditionally as it checks for NULL pointers. Quota cleanup is added
in gfs2_make_fs_rw() to properly handle the withdrawal case where
quota initialization succeeds but the filesystem is then withdrawn.
Thread leak backtrace (gfs2_freeze_lock_shared failure):
unreferenced object 0xffff88801d7bca80 (size 4480):
copy_process+0x3a1/0x4670 kernel/fork.c:2422
kernel_clone+0xf3/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:2779
kthread_create_on_node+0x100/0x150 kernel/kthread.c:478
init_threads+0xab/0x350 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:611
gfs2_fill_super+0xe5c/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1265
Quota leak backtrace (gfs2_make_fs_rw failure):
unreferenced object 0xffff88812de7c000 (size 8192):
gfs2_quota_init+0xe5/0x820 fs/gfs2/quota.c:1409
gfs2_make_fs_rw+0x7a/0xe0 fs/gfs2/super.c:149
gfs2_fill_super+0xfbb/0x1240 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c:1275
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwrng: core - use RCU and work_struct to fix race condition
Currently, hwrng_fill is not cleared until the hwrng_fillfn() thread
exits. Since hwrng_unregister() reads hwrng_fill outside the rng_mutex
lock, a concurrent hwrng_unregister() may call kthread_stop() again on
the same task.
Additionally, if hwrng_unregister() is called immediately after
hwrng_register(), the stopped thread may have never been executed. Thus,
hwrng_fill remains dirty even after hwrng_unregister() returns. In this
case, subsequent calls to hwrng_register() will fail to start new
threads, and hwrng_unregister() will call kthread_stop() on the same
freed task. In both cases, a use-after-free occurs:
refcount_t: addition on 0; use-after-free.
WARNING: ... at lib/refcount.c:25 refcount_warn_saturate+0xec/0x1c0
Call Trace:
kthread_stop+0x181/0x360
hwrng_unregister+0x288/0x380
virtrng_remove+0xe3/0x200
This patch fixes the race by protecting the global hwrng_fill pointer
inside the rng_mutex lock, so that hwrng_fillfn() thread is stopped only
once, and calls to kthread_run() and kthread_stop() are serialized
with the lock held.
To avoid deadlock in hwrng_fillfn() while being stopped with the lock
held, we convert current_rng to RCU, so that get_current_rng() can read
current_rng without holding the lock. To remove the lock from put_rng(),
we also delay the actual cleanup into a work_struct.
Since get_current_rng() no longer returns ERR_PTR values, the IS_ERR()
checks are removed from its callers.
With hwrng_fill protected by the rng_mutex lock, hwrng_fillfn() can no
longer clear hwrng_fill itself. Therefore, if hwrng_fillfn() returns
directly after current_rng is dropped, kthread_stop() would be called on
a freed task_struct later. To fix this, hwrng_fillfn() calls schedule()
now to keep the task alive until being stopped. The kthread_stop() call
is also moved from hwrng_unregister() to drop_current_rng(), ensuring
kthread_stop() is called on all possible paths where current_rng becomes
NULL, so that the thread would not wait forever.
CVSS Score
4.7
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: stmmac: fix oops when split header is enabled
For GMAC4, when split header is enabled, in some rare cases, the
hardware does not fill buf2 of the first descriptor with payload.
Thus we cannot assume buf2 is always fully filled if it is not
the last descriptor. Otherwise, the length of buf2 of the second
descriptor will be calculated wrong and cause an oops:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffff00019246bfc0
...
x2 : 0000000000000040 x1 : ffff00019246bfc0 x0 : ffff00009246c000
Call trace:
dcache_inval_poc+0x28/0x58 (P)
dma_direct_sync_single_for_cpu+0x38/0x6c
__dma_sync_single_for_cpu+0x34/0x6c
stmmac_napi_poll_rx+0x8f0/0xb60
__napi_poll.constprop.0+0x30/0x144
net_rx_action+0x160/0x274
handle_softirqs+0x1b8/0x1fc
...
To fix this, the PL bit-field in RDES3 register is used for all
descriptors, whether it is the last descriptor or not.
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.002
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
erofs: fix inline data read failure for ztailpacking pclusters
Compressed folios for ztailpacking pclusters must be valid before adding
these pclusters to I/O chains. Otherwise, z_erofs_decompress_pcluster()
may assume they are already valid and then trigger a NULL pointer
dereference.
It is somewhat hard to reproduce because the inline data is in the same
block as the tail of the compressed indexes, which are usually read just
before. However, it may still happen if a fatal signal arrives while
read_mapping_folio() is running, as shown below:
erofs: (device dm-1): z_erofs_pcluster_begin: failed to get inline data -4
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000008
...
pc : z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x4c8/0xa14
lr : z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x160/0xa14
sp : ffffffc08b3eb3a0
x29: ffffffc08b3eb570 x28: ffffffc08b3eb418 x27: 0000000000001000
x26: ffffff8086ebdbb8 x25: ffffff8086ebdbb8 x24: 0000000000000001
x23: 0000000000000008 x22: 00000000fffffffb x21: dead000000000700
x20: 00000000000015e7 x19: ffffff808babb400 x18: ffffffc089edc098
x17: 00000000c006287d x16: 00000000c006287d x15: 0000000000000004
x14: ffffff80ba8f8000 x13: 0000000000000004 x12: 00000006589a77c9
x11: 0000000000000015 x10: 0000000000000000 x9 : 0000000000000000
x8 : 0000000000000000 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000000003f
x5 : 0000000000000040 x4 : ffffffffffffffe0 x3 : 0000000000000020
x2 : 0000000000000008 x1 : 0000000000000000 x0 : 0000000000000000
Call trace:
z_erofs_decompress_queue+0x4c8/0xa14
z_erofs_runqueue+0x908/0x97c
z_erofs_read_folio+0x128/0x228
filemap_read_folio+0x68/0x128
filemap_get_pages+0x44c/0x8b4
filemap_read+0x12c/0x5b8
generic_file_read_iter+0x4c/0x15c
do_iter_readv_writev+0x188/0x1e0
vfs_iter_read+0xac/0x1a4
backing_file_read_iter+0x170/0x34c
ovl_read_iter+0xf0/0x140
vfs_read+0x28c/0x344
ksys_read+0x80/0xf0
__arm64_sys_read+0x24/0x34
invoke_syscall+0x60/0x114
el0_svc_common+0x88/0xe4
do_el0_svc+0x24/0x30
el0_svc+0x40/0xa8
el0t_64_sync_handler+0x70/0xbc
el0t_64_sync+0x1bc/0x1c0
Fix this by reading the inline data before allocating and adding
the pclusters to the I/O chains.
CVSS Score
7.1
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
iommu/vt-d: Clear Present bit before tearing down context entry
When tearing down a context entry, the current implementation zeros the
entire 128-bit entry using multiple 64-bit writes. This creates a window
where the hardware can fetch a "torn" entry — where some fields are
already zeroed while the 'Present' bit is still set — leading to
unpredictable behavior or spurious faults.
While x86 provides strong write ordering, the compiler may reorder writes
to the two 64-bit halves of the context entry. Even without compiler
reordering, the hardware fetch is not guaranteed to be atomic with
respect to multiple CPU writes.
Align with the "Guidance to Software for Invalidations" in the VT-d spec
(Section 6.5.3.3) by implementing the recommended ownership handshake:
1. Clear only the 'Present' (P) bit of the context entry first to
signal the transition of ownership from hardware to software.
2. Use dma_wmb() to ensure the cleared bit is visible to the IOMMU.
3. Perform the required cache and context-cache invalidation to ensure
hardware no longer has cached references to the entry.
4. Fully zero out the entry only after the invalidation is complete.
Also, add a dma_wmb() to context_set_present() to ensure the entry
is fully initialized before the 'Present' bit becomes visible.
CVSS Score
7.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bpf: Fix tcx/netkit detach permissions when prog fd isn't given
This commit fixes a security issue where BPF_PROG_DETACH on tcx or
netkit devices could be executed by any user when no program fd was
provided, bypassing permission checks. The fix adds a capability
check for CAP_NET_ADMIN or CAP_SYS_ADMIN in this case.
CVSS Score
7.3
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
btrfs: fix EEXIST abort due to non-consecutive gaps in chunk allocation
I have been observing a number of systems aborting at
insert_dev_extents() in btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(). The
following is a sample stack trace of such an abort coming from forced
chunk allocation (typically behind CONFIG_BTRFS_EXPERIMENTAL) but this
can theoretically happen to any DUP chunk allocation.
[81.801] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[81.801] BTRFS: Transaction aborted (error -17)
[81.801] WARNING: fs/btrfs/block-group.c:2876 at btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x721/0x770 [btrfs], CPU#1: bash/319
[81.802] Modules linked in: virtio_net btrfs xor zstd_compress raid6_pq null_blk
[81.803] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 319 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.19.0-rc6+ #319 NONE
[81.803] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.17.0-2-2 04/01/2014
[81.804] RIP: 0010:btrfs_create_pending_block_groups+0x723/0x770 [btrfs]
[81.806] RSP: 0018:ffffa36241a6bce8 EFLAGS: 00010282
[81.806] RAX: 000000000000000d RBX: ffff8e699921e400 RCX: 0000000000000000
[81.807] RDX: 0000000002040001 RSI: 00000000ffffffef RDI: ffffffffc0608bf0
[81.807] RBP: 00000000ffffffef R08: ffff8e69830f6000 R09: 0000000000000007
[81.808] R10: ffff8e699921e5e8 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8e6999228000
[81.808] R13: ffff8e6984d82000 R14: ffff8e69966a69c0 R15: ffff8e69aa47b000
[81.809] FS: 00007fec6bdd9740(0000) GS:ffff8e6b1b379000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[81.809] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[81.810] CR2: 00005604833670f0 CR3: 0000000116679000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
[81.810] Call Trace:
[81.810] <TASK>
[81.810] __btrfs_end_transaction+0x3e/0x2b0 [btrfs]
[81.811] btrfs_force_chunk_alloc_store+0xcd/0x140 [btrfs]
[81.811] kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x15f/0x240
[81.812] vfs_write+0x264/0x500
[81.812] ksys_write+0x6c/0xe0
[81.812] do_syscall_64+0x66/0x770
[81.812] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[81.813] RIP: 0033:0x7fec6be66197
[81.814] RSP: 002b:00007fffb159dd30 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
[81.815] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fec6bdd9740 RCX: 00007fec6be66197
[81.815] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000560483374f80 RDI: 0000000000000001
[81.816] RBP: 0000560483374f80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[81.816] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 0000000000000002
[81.817] R13: 00007fec6bfb85c0 R14: 00007fec6bfb5ee0 R15: 00005604833729c0
[81.817] </TASK>
[81.817] irq event stamp: 20039
[81.818] hardirqs last enabled at (20047): [<ffffffff99a68302>] __up_console_sem+0x52/0x60
[81.818] hardirqs last disabled at (20056): [<ffffffff99a682e7>] __up_console_sem+0x37/0x60
[81.819] softirqs last enabled at (19470): [<ffffffff999d2b46>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x96/0xc0
[81.819] softirqs last disabled at (19463): [<ffffffff999d2b46>] __irq_exit_rcu+0x96/0xc0
[81.820] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[81.820] BTRFS: error (device dm-7 state A) in btrfs_create_pending_block_groups:2876: errno=-17 Object already exists
Inspecting these aborts with drgn, I observed a pattern of overlapping
chunk_maps. Note how stripe 1 of the first chunk overlaps in physical
address with stripe 0 of the second chunk.
Physical Start Physical End Length Logical Type Stripe
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
0x0000000102500000 0x0000000142500000 1.0G 0x0000000641d00000 META|DUP 0/2
0x0000000142500000 0x0000000182500000 1.0G 0x0000000641d00000 META|DUP 1/2
0x0000000142500000 0x0000000182500000 1.0G 0x0000000601d00000 META|DUP 0/2
0x0000000182500000 0x00000001c2500000 1.0G 0x0000000601d00000 META|DUP 1/2
Now how could this possibly happen? All chunk allocation is
---truncated---
CVSS Score
5.5
EPSS Score
0.001
Published
2026-05-27