On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 08:29:45AM +0000, Xinyu Zheng wrote:
> From: Dongli Zhang <[email protected]>
> 
> [ Upstream commit f591cf9fce724e5075cc67488c43c6e39e8cbe27 ]
> 
> The vhost-scsi completion path may access vq->log_base when vq->log_used is
> already set to false.
> 
>     vhost-thread                       QEMU-thread
> 
> vhost_scsi_complete_cmd_work()
> -> vhost_add_used()
>    -> vhost_add_used_n()
>       if (unlikely(vq->log_used))
>                                       QEMU disables vq->log_used
>                                       via VHOST_SET_VRING_ADDR.
>                                       mutex_lock(&vq->mutex);
>                                       vq->log_used = false now!
>                                       mutex_unlock(&vq->mutex);
> 
>                                     QEMU gfree(vq->log_base)
>         log_used()
>         -> log_write(vq->log_base)
> 
> Assuming the VMM is QEMU. The vq->log_base is from QEMU userpace and can be
> reclaimed via gfree(). As a result, this causes invalid memory writes to
> QEMU userspace.
> 
> The control queue path has the same issue.
> 
> CVE-2025-38074

This is not needed.

> Cc: [email protected]#5.10.x

What about 5.15.y and 6.1.y?  We can't take a patch just for 5.10 as
that would cause regressions, right?

Please provide all relevant backports and I will be glad to queue them
up then.  I'll drop this from my queue for now, thanks.

greg k-h

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