CVE-2025-38255

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38255
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38255.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38255
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-07-09T10:42:33Z
Modified
2026-08-12T03:30:11Z
Summary
lib/group_cpus: fix NULL pointer dereference from group_cpus_evenly()
Details

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

lib/group_cpus: fix NULL pointer dereference from group_cpus_evenly()

While testing null_blk with configfs, echo 0 > poll_queues will trigger following panic:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI CPU: 27 UID: 0 PID: 920 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.15.0-02023-gadbdb95c8696-dirty #1238 PREEMPT(undef) Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:__bitmap_or+0x48/0x70 Call Trace: __group_cpus_evenly+0x822/0x8c0 group_cpus_evenly+0x2d9/0x490 blk_mq_map_queues+0x1e/0x110 null_map_queues+0xc9/0x170 [null_blk] blk_mq_update_queue_map+0xdb/0x160 blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues+0x22b/0x560 nullb_update_nr_hw_queues+0x71/0xf0 [null_blk] nullb_device_poll_queues_store+0xa4/0x130 [null_blk] configfs_write_iter+0x109/0x1d0 vfs_write+0x26e/0x6f0 ksys_write+0x79/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x1d/0x30 x64_sys_call+0x45c4/0x45f0 do_syscall_64+0xa5/0x240 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

Root cause is that numgrps is set to 0, and ZERO_SIZE_PTR is returned from kcalloc(), and later ZERO_SIZE_PTR will be deferenced.

Fix the problem by checking numgrps first in group_cpus_evenly(), and return NULL directly if numgrps is zero.

[yukuai3@huawei.com: also fix the non-SMP version]

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "Linux",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/38xxx/CVE-2025-38255.json"
}
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
6a6dcae8f486c3f3298d0767d34505121c7b0b81
Fixed
64a99eff8dcf1f951a544e6058341b2b19a8fdbd
Fixed
29d39e0d5f16c060e32542b2cf351c09fd22b250
Fixed
911ef2e8a7de5b2bae8ff11fb0bd01f699e6db65
Fixed
df831e97739405ecbaddb85516bc7d4d1c933d6b

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38255.json"

Linux / Kernel

Package

Name
Kernel

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.3.0
Fixed
6.6.96
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.7.0
Fixed
6.12.36
Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.13.0
Fixed
6.15.5

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38255.json"