CVE-2025-38444
CVE-2025-38444CVE-2025-38444
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
raid10: cleanup memleak at raid10_make_request
If raid10_read_request or raid10_write_request registers a new
request and the REQ_NOWAIT flag is set, the code does not
free the malloc from the mempool.
unreferenced object 0xffff8884802c3200 (size 192):
comm "fio", pid 9197, jiffies 4298078271
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 88 41 02 00 00 00 00 00 .........A......
08 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc c1a049a2):
__kmalloc+0x2bb/0x450
mempool_alloc+0x11b/0x320
raid10_make_request+0x19e/0x650 [raid10]
md_handle_request+0x3b3/0x9e0
__submit_bio+0x394/0x560
__submit_bio_noacct+0x145/0x530
submit_bio_noacct_nocheck+0x682/0x830
__blkdev_direct_IO_async+0x4dc/0x6b0
blkdev_read_iter+0x1e5/0x3b0
__io_read+0x230/0x1110
io_read+0x13/0x30
io_issue_sqe+0x134/0x1180
io_submit_sqes+0x48
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |