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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: prevent deadlock by changing j1939_socks_lock to rwlock The following 3 locks would race against each other, causing the deadlock situation in the Syzbot bug report: -...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: s390: vsie: fix race during shadow creation Right now it is possible to see gmap->private being zero in kvm_s390_vsie_gmap_notifier resulting in a crash. This is due to the f...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/lib: Revert to _ASM_EXTABLE_UA() for {get,put}_user() fixups During memory error injection test on kernels >= v6.4, the kernel panics like below. However, this issue couldn't b...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ppp_async: limit MRU to 64K syzbot triggered a warning [1] in __alloc_pages(): WARN_ON_ONCE_GFP(order > MAX_PAGE_ORDER, gfp) Willem fixed a similar issue in commit c0a2a1b0d631 (...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: af_unix: Call kfree_skb() for dead unix_(sk)->oob_skb in GC. syzbot reported a warning [0] in __unix_gc() with a repro, which creates a socketpair and sends one socket's fd to itse...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: rxrpc: Fix delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number Fix the construction of delayed ACKs to not set the reference serial number as they can't be used as an RTT reference...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: x86/efistub: Use 1:1 file:memory mapping for PE/COFF .compat section The .compat section is a dummy PE section that contains the address of the 32-bit entrypoint of the 64-bit kern...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: inet: read sk->sk_family once in inet_recv_error() inet_recv_error() is called without holding the socket lock. IPv6 socket could mutate to IPv4 with IPV6_ADDRFORM socket option a...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: atlantic: Fix DMA mapping for PTP hwts ring Function aq_ring_hwts_rx_alloc() maps extra AQ_CFG_RXDS_DEF bytes for PTP HWTS ring but then generic aq_ring_free() does not take t...

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: netdevsim: avoid potential loop in nsim_dev_trap_report_work() Many syzbot reports include the following trace [1] If nsim_dev_trap_report_work() can not grab the mutex, it should...