CVE-2025-71070

ublk: clean up user copy references on ublk server exit

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Jan 13, 2026
Updated
Aug 5, 2026
Reserved
Jan 13, 2026

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Description

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

ublk: clean up user copy references on ublk server exit

If a ublk server process releases a ublk char device file, any requests dispatched to the ublk server but not yet completed will retain a ref value of UBLK_REFCOUNT_INIT. Before commit e63d2228ef83 ("ublk: simplify aborting ublk request"), __ublk_fail_req() would decrement the reference count before completing the failed request. However, that commit optimized __ublk_fail_req() to call __ublk_complete_rq() directly without decrementing the request reference count. The leaked reference count incorrectly allows user copy and zero copy operations on the completed ublk request. It also triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(refcount_read(&io->ref)) warnings in ublk_queue_reinit() and ublk_deinit_queue(). Commit c5c5eb24ed61 ("ublk: avoid ublk_io_release() called after ublk char dev is closed") already fixed the issue for ublk devices using UBLK_F_SUPPORT_ZERO_COPY or UBLK_F_AUTO_BUF_REG. However, the reference count leak also affects UBLK_F_USER_COPY, the other reference-counted data copy mode. Fix the condition in ublk_check_and_reset_active_ref() to include all reference-counted data copy modes. This ensures that any ublk requests still owned by the ublk server when it exits have their reference counts reset to 0.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e63d2228ef831af36f963b3ab8604160cfff84c1 to before 13456b4f1033d911f8bf3a0a1195656f293ba0f6Affected
  • e63d2228ef831af36f963b3ab8604160cfff84c1 to before daa24603d9f0808929514ee62ced30052ca7221cAffected
  • e537193fc4a43b48ac51cc6366319e15e32dd540Affected
  • 6.14.6 to before 6.15Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.15Affected
  • before 6.15Not affected
  • 6.18.3 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 6.19 and laterNot affected

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