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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21664" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-21T12:18:19.015Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:51:52.113Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21664" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21664.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21664" title: "dm thin: make get_first_thin use rcu-safe list first function" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm thin: make get_first_thin use rcu-safe list first function\n\nThe documentation in rculist.h explains the absence of list_empty_rcu()\nand cautions programmers against relying on a list_empty() -\u003e\nlist_first() sequence in RCU safe code. This is because each of these\nfunctions performs its own READ_ONCE() of the list head. This can lead\nto a situation where the list_empty() sees a valid list entry, but the\nsubsequent list_first() sees a different view of list head state after a\nmodification.\n\nIn the case of dm-thin, this author had a production box crash from a GP\nfault in the process_deferred_bios path. This function saw a valid list\nhead in get_first_thin() but when it subsequently dereferenced that and\nturned it into a thin_c, it got the inside of the struct pool, since the\nlist was now empty and referring to itself. The kernel on which this\noccurred printed both a warning about a refcount_t being saturated, and\na UBSAN error for an out-of-bounds cpuid access in the queued spinlock,\nprior to the fault itself. When the resulting kdump was examined, it\nwas possible to see another thread patiently waiting in thin_dtr's\nsynchronize_rcu.\n\nThe thin_dtr call managed to pull the thin_c out of the active thins\nlist (and have it be the last entry in the active_thins list) at just\nthe wrong moment which lead to this crash.\n\nFortunately, the fix here is straight forward. Switch get_first_thin()\nfunction to use list_first_or_null_rcu() which performs just a single\nREAD_ONCE() and returns NULL if the list is already empty.\n\nThis was run against the devicemapper test suite's thin-provisioning\nsuites for delete and suspend and no regressions were observed." affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ec037fe8c0d0f6140e3d8a49c7b29cb5582160b8"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cd30a3960433ec2db94b3689752fa3c5df44d649"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"802666a40c71a23542c43a3f87e3a2d0f4e8fe45"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"12771050b6d059eea096993bf2001da9da9fddff"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6b305e98de0d225ccebfb225730a9f560d28ecb0"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cbd0d5ecfa390ac29c5380200147d09c381b2ac6"},{"version":"b10ebd34cccae1b431caf1be54919aede2be7cbe","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"80f130bfad1dab93b95683fc39b87235682b8f72"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.15"},{"version":"5.4.290","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.4.*"},{"version":"5.10.234","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.177","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.125","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.72","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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