vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2025-21712
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Feb 27, 2025 | Jul 2, 2025 | Oct 23, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2025
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Oct 23, 2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md/md-bitmap: Synchronize bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap lifetime
After commit ec6bb299c7c3 ("md/md-bitmap: add 'sync_size' into struct
md_bitmap_stats"), following panic is reported:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
RIP: 0010:bitmap_get_stats+0x2b/0xa0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
md_seq_show+0x2d2/0x5b0
seq_read_iter+0x2b9/0x470
seq_read+0x12f/0x180
proc_reg_read+0x57/0xb0
vfs_read+0xf6/0x380
ksys_read+0x6c/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Root cause is that bitmap_get_stats() can be called at anytime if mddev
is still there, even if bitmap is destroyed, or not fully initialized.
Deferenceing bitmap in this case can crash the kernel. Meanwhile, the
above commit start to deferencing bitmap->storage, make the problem
easier to trigger.
Fix the problem by protecting bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap_info.mutex.
md/md-bitmap: Synchronize bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap lifetime
After commit ec6bb299c7c3 ("md/md-bitmap: add 'sync_size' into struct
md_bitmap_stats"), following panic is reported:
Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address
RIP: 0010:bitmap_get_stats+0x2b/0xa0
Call Trace:
<TASK>
md_seq_show+0x2d2/0x5b0
seq_read_iter+0x2b9/0x470
seq_read+0x12f/0x180
proc_reg_read+0x57/0xb0
vfs_read+0xf6/0x380
ksys_read+0x6c/0xf0
do_syscall_64+0x82/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
Root cause is that bitmap_get_stats() can be called at anytime if mddev
is still there, even if bitmap is destroyed, or not fully initialized.
Deferenceing bitmap in this case can crash the kernel. Meanwhile, the
above commit start to deferencing bitmap->storage, make the problem
easier to trigger.
Fix the problem by protecting bitmap_get_stats() with bitmap_info.mutex.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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