CVE-2025-38444

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38444
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38444.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38444
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-25T15:27:27.336Z
Modified
2025-11-27T19:34:36.919765Z
Summary
raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request
Details

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

raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10makerequest

If raid10readrequest or raid10writerequest registers a new request and the REQ_NOWAIT flag is set, the code does not free the malloc from the mempool.

unreferenced object 0xffff8884802c3200 (size 192): comm "fio", pid 9197, jiffies 4298078271 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........A...... 08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc c1a049a2): _kmalloc+0x2bb/0x450 mempoolalloc+0x11b/0x320 raid10makerequest+0x19e/0x650 [raid10] mdhandlerequest+0x3b3/0x9e0 _submitbio+0x394/0x560 _submitbionoacct+0x145/0x530 submitbionoacctnocheck+0x682/0x830 _blkdevdirectIOasync+0x4dc/0x6b0 blkdevreaditer+0x1e5/0x3b0 _ioread+0x230/0x1110 ioread+0x13/0x30 ioissuesqe+0x134/0x1180 iosubmitsqes+0x48c/0xe90 _dosysiouringenter+0x574/0x8b0 dosyscall64+0x5c/0xe0 entrySYSCALL64afterhwframe+0x76/0x7e

V4: changing backing tree to see if CKI tests will pass. The patch code has not changed between any versions.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/ee626f5d79d5817bb21d6f048dc0da4c4e383443/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38444.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8
Fixed
10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2
Fixed
9af149ca9d0dab6e59e813519d309eff62499864
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2
Fixed
8fc3d7b23d139e3cbc944c15d99b3cdbed797d2d
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2
Fixed
2941155d9a5ae098b480d551f3a5f8605d4f9af5
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2
Fixed
ed7bcd9f617e4107ac0813c516e72e6b8f6029bd
Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2
Fixed
43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
5.15.189
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.16.0
Fixed
6.1.146
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.17.0
Fixed
6.6.99
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.2.0
Fixed
6.12.39
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.15.7