4.7

CVE-2025-38687

comedi: fix race between polling and detaching

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

comedi: fix race between polling and detaching

syzbot reports a use-after-free in comedi in the below link, which is
due to comedi gladly removing the allocated async area even though poll
requests are still active on the wait_queue_head inside of it. This can
cause a use-after-free when the poll entries are later triggered or
removed, as the memory for the wait_queue_head has been freed.  We need
to check there are no tasks queued on any of the subdevices' wait queues
before allowing the device to be detached by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG`
ioctl.

Tasks will read-lock `dev->attach_lock` before adding themselves to the
subdevice wait queue, so fix the problem in the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl
handler by write-locking `dev->attach_lock` before checking that all of
the subdevices are safe to be deleted.  This includes testing for any
sleepers on the subdevices' wait queues.  It remains locked until the
device has been detached.  This requires the `comedi_device_detach()`
function to be refactored slightly, moving the bulk of it into new
function `comedi_device_detach_locked()`.

Note that the refactor of `comedi_device_detach()` results in
`comedi_device_cancel_all()` now being called while `dev->attach_lock`
is write-locked, which wasn't the case previously, but that does not
matter.

Thanks to Jens Axboe for diagnosing the problem and co-developing this
patch.
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LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 3.14 < 5.4.297
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.5 < 5.10.241
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.11 < 5.15.190
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 5.16 < 6.1.149
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.2 < 6.6.103
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.7 < 6.12.43
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.13 < 6.15.11
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 6.16 < 6.16.2
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.11% 0.016
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 4.7 1 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/fe67122ba781df44a1a9716eb1dfd751321ab512
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/cd4286123d6948ff638ea9cd5818ae4796d5d252
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d85fac8729c9acfd72368faff1d576ec585e5c8f
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0f989f9d05492028afd2bded4b42023c57d8a76e
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5c4a2ffcbd052c69bbf4680677d4c4eaa5a252d4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/017198079551a2a5cf61eae966af3c4b145e1f3b
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/71ca60d2e631cf9c63bcbc7017961c61ff04e419
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5724e82df4f9a4be62908362c97d522d25de75dd
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35b6fc51c666fc96355be5cd633ed0fe4ccf68b2
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html