CVE-2025-38621EPSS p4.4%
CVE-2025-38621CVE-2025-38621
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
md: make rdev_addable usable for rcu mode
Our testcase trigger panic:
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000000e0
...
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 85 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 6.16.0+ #94
PREEMPT(none)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS
1.16.1-2.fc37 04/01/2014
Workqueue: md_misc md_start_sync
RIP: 0010:rdev_addable+0x4d/0xf0
...
Call Trace:
<TASK>
md_start_sync+0x329/0x480
process_one_work+0x226/0x6d0
worker_thread+0x19e/0x340
kthread+0x10f/0x250
ret_from_fork+0x14d/0x180
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in: raid10
CR2: 00000000000000e0
---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
RIP: 0010:rdev_addable+0x4d/0xf0
md_spares_need_change in md_start_sync will call rdev_addable which
protected by rcu_read_lock/rcu_read_unlock. This rcu context will help
protect rdev won't be released, but rdev->mddev will be set to NULL
before we
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.16% probability of exploitation · percentile 4.4% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z |
| Last modified | 2026-09-07 |