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io_uring: fix use-after-free of sq->thread in __io_uring_show_fdinfo()

Published Jul 3, 2025 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

io_uring: fix use-after-free of sq->thread in __io_uring_show_fdinfo()

syzbot reports:

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88810de2d2c8 by task a.out/304

CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 304 Comm: a.out Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1 #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x53/0x70
print_report+0xd0/0x670
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x10
? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
kasan_report+0xce/0x100
? getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
getrusage+0x1109/0x1a60
? __pfx_getrusage+0x10/0x10
__io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x9fe/0x1790
? ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
? do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
? vsnprintf+0x591/0x1100
? __pfx___io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_vsnprintf+0x10/0x10
? mutex_trylock+0xcf/0x130
? __pfx_mutex_trylock+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_show_fd_locks+0x10/0x10
? io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
io_uring_show_fdinfo+0x57/0x80
seq_show+0x38c/0x690
seq_read_iter+0x3f7/0x1180
? inode_set_ctime_current+0x160/0x4b0
seq_read+0x271/0x3e0
? __pfx_seq_read+0x10/0x10
? __pfx__raw_spin_lock+0x10/0x10
? __mark_inode_dirty+0x402/0x810
? selinux_file_permission+0x368/0x500
? file_update_time+0x10f/0x160
vfs_read+0x177/0xa40
? __pfx___handle_mm_fault+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_vfs_read+0x10/0x10
? mutex_lock+0x81/0xe0
? __pfx_mutex_lock+0x10/0x10
? fdget_pos+0x24d/0x4b0
ksys_read+0xf7/0x1c0
? __pfx_ksys_read+0x10/0x10
? do_user_addr_fault+0x43b/0x9c0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7f0f74170fc9
Code: 00 c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 8
RSP: 002b:00007fffece049e8 EFLAGS: 00000206 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 00007f0f74170fc9
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: 00007fffece049f0 RDI: 0000000000000004
RBP: 00007fffece05ad0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007fffece04d90
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000206 R12: 00005651720a1100
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000
</TASK>

Allocated by task 298:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
__kasan_slab_alloc+0x6e/0x70
kmem_cache_alloc_node_noprof+0xe8/0x330
copy_process+0x376/0x5e00
create_io_thread+0xab/0xf0
io_sq_offload_create+0x9ed/0xf20
io_uring_setup+0x12b0/0x1cc0
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 22:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
kasan_save_free_info+0x3b/0x60
__kasan_slab_free+0x37/0x50
kmem_cache_free+0xc4/0x360
rcu_core+0x5ff/0x19f0
handle_softirqs+0x18c/0x530
run_ksoftirqd+0x20/0x30
smpboot_thread_fn+0x287/0x6c0
kthread+0x30d/0x630
ret_from_fork+0xef/0x1a0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30

Last potentially related work creation:
kasan_save_stack+0x33/0x60
kasan_record_aux_stack+0x8c/0xa0
__call_rcu_common.constprop.0+0x68/0x940
__schedule+0xff2/0x2930
__cond_resched+0x4c/0x80
mutex_lock+0x5c/0xe0
io_uring_del_tctx_node+0xe1/0x2b0
io_uring_clean_tctx+0xb7/0x160
io_uring_cancel_generic+0x34e/0x760
do_exit+0x240/0x2350
do_group_exit+0xab/0x220
__x64_sys_exit_group+0x39/0x40
x64_sys_call+0x1243/0x1840
do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88810de2cb00
which belongs to the cache task_struct of size 3712
The buggy address is located 1992 bytes inside of
freed 3712-byte region [ffff88810de2cb00, ffff88810de2d980)

which is caused by the task_struct pointed to by sq->thread being
released while it is being used in the function
__io_uring_show_fdinfo(). Holding ctx->uring_lock does not prevent ehre
relase or exit of sq->thread.

Fix this by assigning and looking up ->thread under RCU, and grabbing a
reference to the task_struct. This e
---truncated---

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 6.9 6.12.34

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 6.12.35-1 —
Debian 13 linux 6.12.35-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 linux-azure-fde No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.04 linux-azure 6.14.0-1012.12 USN-7770-1
Ubuntu 25.04 linux-raspi 6.14.0-1014.14 USN-7789-2
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-aws-6.14 +1 6.14.0-1013.13~24.04.1 USN-7789-1, USN-7769-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-azure-nvidia-6.14 6.14.0-1007.7 —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-gcp-6.14 6.14.0-1016.17~24.04.1 USN-7769-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-hwe-6.14 6.14.0-32.32~24.04.1 USN-7769-3
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-oem-6.14 6.14.0-1012.12 USN-7771-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv +8 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-riscv-6.14 6.14.0-32.32.1~24.04.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 24.04 LTS linux-realtime-6.14 6.14.0-1012.12~24.04.1 USN-7769-2
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 rv +76 6.12.0-124.43.1.el10_1 RHSA-2026:4012
RHEL 9 rv +75 5.14.0-611.38.1.el9_7 RHSA-2026:3966
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10.0 EUS rv +77 6.12.0-55.62.1.el10_0 RHSA-2026:3579
RHEL 9.6 EUS rv +77 5.14.0-570.92.1.el9_6 RHSA-2026:3088

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 kernel-doc +1 6.12.0-124.43.1.el10_1 ALSA-2026:4012
AlmaLinux 9 rv +73 5.14.0-611.38.1.el9_7 ALSA-2026:3966
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-64kb +5 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-azure +2 6.4.0-150700.20.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:03011-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-default-base 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1.150700.17.9.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLES 15 SP7 kernel-docs 6.4.0-150700.53.11.3 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES for SAP 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-64kb +7 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2025:21179-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLES 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21139-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1
SLE Micro 6.2 kernel-rt +5 6.12.0-160000.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20560-1, SUSE-SU-2025:21074-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-default 6.4.0-150700.53.11.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7-RT_Update_3 1-150700.1.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP7 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP7_Update_3 1-150700.15.3.4 SUSE-SU-2025:02997-1
SUSE Real Time Module 15 SP7 kernel-rt +2 6.4.0-150700.7.13.1 SUSE-SU-2025:02853-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-default-base 6.12.0-160000.6.1.160000.2.4 openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 kernel-rt +10 6.12.0-160000.6.1 openSUSE-SU-2025:20081-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 bpftool +14 6.12.35-55.103.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1080
Amazon Linux 2023 kernel-livepatch-6.12.35-55.103 1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1080

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 10 rv +29 6.12.0-124.43.1.el10_1 ELSA-2026-4012
Oracle Linux 9 kernel-uek +34 6.12.0-103.40.4.1.el10uek ELSA-2025-20551
Oracle Linux 9 rv +28 5.14.0-611.38.1.el9_7 ELSA-2026-3966

Advisories 27

References