In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
s390/cio: fix out-of-bounds access on cio_ignore free
The channel-subsystem-driver scans for newly available devices whenever device-IDs are removed from the cio_ignore list using a command such as:
echo free >/proc/cio_ignore
Since an I/O device scan might interfer with running I/Os, commit 172da89ed0ea ("s390/cio: avoid excessive path-verification requests") introduced an optimization to exclude online devices from the scan.
The newly added check for online devices incorrectly assumes that an I/O-subchannel's drvdata points to a struct io_subchannel_private. For devices that are bound to a non-default I/O subchannel driver, such as the vfio_ccw driver, this results in an out-of-bounds read access during each scan.
Fix this by changing the scan logic to rely on a driver-independent online indication. For this we can use struct subchannel->config.ena, which is the driver's requested subchannel-enabled state. Since I/Os can only be started on enabled subchannels, this matches the intent of the original optimization of not scanning devices where I/O might be running.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | — | Upgrade linux | Sep 17, 2025 | Sep 17, 2025 |
| Redhat_linux | — | No solution exists | Jul 17, 2026 | Sep 15, 2025 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade linux-intel-iotg-5.15Upgrade linux-azure-fdeUpgrade linux-azure-5.15Upgrade linux-azureUpgrade linux-lowlatencyUpgrade linux-ibmUpgrade linux-gkeUpgrade linuxUpgrade linux-gkeopUpgrade linux-oracle-5.15Upgrade linux-raspiUpgrade linux-aws-5.15Upgrade linux-hwe-5.15Upgrade linux-lowlatency-hwe-5.15Upgrade linux-gcp-5.15Upgrade linux-intel-iotgUpgrade linux-realtimeUpgrade linux-nvidiaUpgrade linux-kvmUpgrade linux-gcpUpgrade linux-bluefieldUpgrade linux-awsUpgrade linux-riscv-5.15Upgrade linux-oracle | Sep 19, 2025 | Sep 16, 2025 |
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