CVE-2025-38722 (GCVE-0-2025-38722)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-04 15:33
Modified
2025-09-04 15:33
Severity ?
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: habanalabs: fix UAF in export_dmabuf() As soon as we'd inserted a file reference into descriptor table, another thread could close it. That's fine for the case when all we are doing is returning that descriptor to userland (it's a race, but it's a userland race and there's nothing the kernel can do about it). However, if we follow fd_install() with any kind of access to objects that would be destroyed on close (be it the struct file itself or anything destroyed by its ->release()), we have a UAF. dma_buf_fd() is a combination of reserving a descriptor and fd_install(). habanalabs export_dmabuf() calls it and then proceeds to access the objects destroyed on close. In particular, it grabs an extra reference to another struct file that will be dropped as part of ->release() for ours; that "will be" is actually "might have already been". Fix that by reserving descriptor before anything else and do fd_install() only when everything had been set up. As a side benefit, we no longer have the failure exit with file already created, but reference to underlying file (as well as ->dmabuf_export_cnt, etc.) not grabbed yet; unlike dma_buf_fd(), fd_install() can't fail.
References
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33927f3d0ecdcff06326d6e4edb6166aed42811c
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/40deceb38f9db759772d1c289c28fd2a543f57fc
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/55c232d7e0241f1d5120b595e7a9de24c75ed3d8
416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c07886761fd6251db6938d4e747002e3d150d231
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