CVE-2025-38620

zloop: fix KASAN use-after-free of tag set

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Aug 22, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

zloop: fix KASAN use-after-free of tag set

When a zoned loop device, or zloop device, is removed, KASAN enabled kernel reports "BUG KASAN use-after-free" in blk_mq_free_tag_set(). The BUG happens because zloop_ctl_remove() calls put_disk(), which invokes zloop_free_disk(). The zloop_free_disk() frees the memory allocated for the zlo pointer. However, after the memory is freed, zloop_ctl_remove() calls blk_mq_free_tag_set(&zlo->tag_set), which accesses the freed zlo. Hence the KASAN use-after-free.

zloop_ctl_remove() put_disk(zlo->disk) put_device() kobject_put() ... zloop_free_disk() kvfree(zlo) blk_mq_free_tag_set(&zlo->tag_set)

To avoid the BUG, move the call to blk_mq_free_tag_set(&zlo->tag_set) from zloop_ctl_remove() into zloop_free_disk(). This ensures that the tag_set is freed before the call to kvfree(zlo).

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Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • eb0570c7df23c2f32fe899fcdaf8fca9a5ecd51e to before c7c87046b41a9ef28ee7ac476c369da5b5228bc5Affected
  • eb0570c7df23c2f32fe899fcdaf8fca9a5ecd51e to before 765761851d89c772f482494d452e266795460278Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.16Affected
  • before 6.16Not affected
  • 6.16.1 through 6.16.*Not affected
  • 6.17 and laterNot affected

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