CVE-2026-74613 PUBLISHED

vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 15.08.2026 Published: 22.08.2026 Updated: 22.08.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vsock/virtio: avoid refilling the RX queue after teardown

Commit b917507e5ad9 ("vsock/virtio: stop workers during the .remove()") made the RX worker jump to its common exit when rx_run is clear. That exit still refills the RX queue when the buffer count is low, so work queued across virtio_vsock_vqs_del() can add buffers after the virtqueues have been deleted.

BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in virtqueue_add_sgs Read of size 4 by task kworker/0:1 Workqueue: virtio_vsock virtio_transport_rx_work Call Trace: virtqueue_add_sgs (drivers/virtio/virtio_ring.c:2796) virtio_vsock_rx_fill (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:332) virtio_transport_rx_work (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:701) process_one_work (kernel/workqueue.c:3314) worker_thread (kernel/workqueue.c:3478) kthread (kernel/kthread.c:436) ret_from_fork (arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158) ret_from_fork_asm (arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245) ... Freed by task 141: kfree (mm/slub.c:6566) vp_del_vq (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:259) vp_del_vqs (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:285) virtio_vsock_freeze (net/vmw_vsock/virtio_transport.c:912) virtio_device_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio.c:658) virtio_pci_freeze (drivers/virtio/virtio_pci_common.c:601) pci_pm_freeze (drivers/pci/pci-driver.c:1098) device_suspend (drivers/base/power/main.c:1968) Kernel panic - not syncing: KASAN: panic_on_warn set ...

Jump to a no-refill exit when rx_run is clear, leaving the normal exit to replenish a running queue.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to a7658508f5fe8f1077a65e8cb9535d3426f37a2f (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to 1aa21e7c8702a7c37cd7d3cace1a652cfa5e8171 (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to 4d37e3525cc346a1421c1bdeaad5848e249fc60c (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to 9d80a04129a6c27a690cb69de3fe3f50be5aa8b9 (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to a309b74e3fc052352ab778500449cb9c3853c363 (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to 38c7763fdc533edb34dc8f4489c260e8ba2ccae9 (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to e82a5faea2e3886dfb2a65ce092a132e7e896915 (excl.)
  • affected from b917507e5ad983085d29069369778b16aa03a0a8 to a31e0ad444698d8aa7534a0f89fda543730f97a5 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 5.3 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 5.3 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 5.10.265 to 5.10.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 5.15.216 to 5.15.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.183 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.152 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.104 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.45 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.1.9 to 7.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2 to * (incl.)

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