2025-12-16 14:45:04
Linux
PUBLISHED
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
crypto: zstd - fix double-free in per-CPU stream cleanup
The crypto/zstd module has a double-free bug that occurs when multiple
tfms are allocated and freed.
The issue happens because zstd_streams (per-CPU contexts) are freed in
zstd_exit() during every tfm destruction, rather than being managed at
the module level. When multiple tfms exist, each tfm exit attempts to
free the same shared per-CPU streams, resulting in a double-free.
This leads to a stack trace similar to:
BUG: Bad page state in process kworker/u16:1 pfn:106fd93
page: refcount:0 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0 pfn:0x106fd93
flags: 0x17ffffc0000000(node=0|zone=2|lastcpupid=0x1fffff)
page_type: 0xffffffff()
raw: 0017ffffc0000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero entire_mapcount
Modules linked in: ...
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 2506 Comm: kworker/u16:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G B
Hardware name: ...
Workqueue: btrfs-delalloc btrfs_work_helper
Call Trace: