7.8

CVE-2025-38708

drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts

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

drbd: add missing kref_get in handle_write_conflicts

With `two-primaries` enabled, DRBD tries to detect "concurrent" writes
and handle write conflicts, so that even if you write to the same sector
simultaneously on both nodes, they end up with the identical data once
the writes are completed.

In handling "superseeded" writes, we forgot a kref_get,
resulting in a premature drbd_destroy_device and use after free,
and further to kernel crashes with symptoms.

Relevance: No one should use DRBD as a random data generator, and apparently
all users of "two-primaries" handle concurrent writes correctly on layer up.
That is cluster file systems use some distributed lock manager,
and live migration in virtualization environments stops writes on one node
before starting writes on the other node.

Which means that other than for "test cases",
this code path is never taken in real life.

FYI, in DRBD 9, things are handled differently nowadays.  We still detect
"write conflicts", but no longer try to be smart about them.
We decided to disconnect hard instead: upper layers must not submit concurrent
writes. If they do, that's their fault.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
LinuxLinux Kernel Version >= 4.5 < 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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Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.16% 0.052
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
nvd@nist.gov 7.8 1.8 5.9
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-416 Use After Free

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0336bfe9c237476bd7c45605a36ca79c2bca62e5
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/810cd546a29bfac90ed1328ea01d693d4bd11cb1
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/84ef8dd3238330d1795745ece83b19f0295751bf
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57418de35420cedab035aa1da8a26c0499b7f575
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9f53b2433ad248cd3342cc345f56f5c7904bd8c4
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7d483ad300fc0a06f69b019dda8f74970714baf8
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46e3763dcae0ffcf8fcfaff4fc10a90a92ffdd89
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3a896498f6f577e57bf26aaa93b48c22b6d20c20
Patch
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/00c9c9628b49e368d140cfa61d7df9b8922ec2a8
Patch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00007.html
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