Public vulnerability disclosure

CVE-2025-38444

raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request

published

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request If raid10_read_request or raid10_write_request 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 mempool_alloc+0x11b/0x320 raid10_make_request+0x19e/0x650 [raid10] md_handle_request+0x3b3/0x9e0 __submit_bio+0x394/0x560 __submit_bio_noacct+0x145/0x530 submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x682/0x830 __blkdev_direct_IO_async+0x4dc/0x6b0 blkdev_read_iter+0x1e5/0x3b0 __io_read+0x230/0x1110 io_read+0x13/0x30 io_issue_sqe+0x134/0x1180 io_submit_sqes+0x48c/0xe90 __do_sys_io_uring_enter+0x574/0x8b0 do_syscall_64+0x5c/0xe0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e V4: changing backing tree to see if CKI tests will pass. The patch code has not changed between any versions.

Technical severityUnscoredNo score in collected sources
Published2025-07-25Source updated 2026-11-05
Collected2026-11-052 attributed sources

Fixes and workarounds

No remediation reported in collected sources.

Missing remediation information is not evidence that no patch exists.

Affected products and versions

Affected products, source version ranges and reporting authorities
ProductVersionsAuthority
Linux
Linux
≥ 39db562b3fedb93978a7e42dd216b306740959f8; < 10c6021a609deb95f23f0cc2f89aa9d4bffb14c7 (affected, git)
≥ c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2; < 9af149ca9d0dab6e59e813519d309eff62499864 (affected, git)
≥ c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2; < 8fc3d7b23d139e3cbc944c15d99b3cdbed797d2d (affected, git)
≥ c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2; < 2941155d9a5ae098b480d551f3a5f8605d4f9af5 (affected, git)
≥ c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2; < ed7bcd9f617e4107ac0813c516e72e6b8f6029bd (affected, git)
≥ c9aa889b035fca4598ae985a0f0c76ebbb547ad2; < 43806c3d5b9bb7d74ba4e33a6a8a41ac988bde24 (affected, git)
≥ 5.15.111; < 5.15.189 (affected, semver)
Other versions: unaffected
CNA: Linux
Linux
Linux
5.17 (affected)
≥ 0; < 5.17 (unaffected, semver)
≥ 5.15.189; ≤ 5.15.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.1.146; ≤ 6.1.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.6.99; ≤ 6.6.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.12.39; ≤ 6.12.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.15.7; ≤ 6.15.* (unaffected, semver)
≥ 6.16; ≤ * (unaffected, original_commit_for_fix)
Other versions: affected
CNA: Linux

Version ranges are source assertions. Check the vendor advisory and your installed configuration before determining exposure.

CVSS assessments

No CVSS assessment reported. An unscored record is not a low-severity determination.

Exploit evidence

No exploit evidence in collected sources. This is not proof of no exploitation.

References

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