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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38141"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-03T08:35:42.787Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T11:59:51.188Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38141"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38141.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38141"
title: "dm: fix dm_blk_report_zones"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\ndm: fix dm_blk_report_zones\n\nIf dm_get_live_table() returned NULL, dm_put_live_table() was never\ncalled. Also, it is possible that md-\u003ezone_revalidate_map will change\nwhile calling this function. Only read it once, so that we are always\nusing the same value. Otherwise we might miss a call to\ndm_put_live_table().\n\nFinally, while md-\u003ezone_revalidate_map is set and a process is calling\nblk_revalidate_disk_zones() to set up the zone append emulation\nresources, it is possible that another process, perhaps triggered by\nblkdev_report_zones_ioctl(), will call dm_blk_report_zones(). If\nblk_revalidate_disk_zones() fails, these resources can be freed while\nthe other process is still using them, causing a use-after-free error.\n\nblk_revalidate_disk_zones() will only ever be called when initially\nsetting up the zone append emulation resources, such as when setting up\na zoned dm-crypt table for the first time. Further table swaps will not\nset md-\u003ezone_revalidate_map or call blk_revalidate_disk_zones().\nHowever it must be called using the new table (referenced by\nmd-\u003ezone_revalidate_map) and the new queue limits while the DM device is\nsuspended. dm_blk_report_zones() needs some way to distinguish between a\ncall from blk_revalidate_disk_zones(), which must be allowed to use\nmd-\u003ezone_revalidate_map to access this not yet activated table, and all\nother calls to dm_blk_report_zones(), which should not be allowed while\nthe device is suspended and cannot use md-\u003ezone_revalidate_map, since\nthe zone resources might be freed by the process currently calling\nblk_revalidate_disk_zones().\n\nSolve this by tracking the process that sets md-\u003ezone_revalidate_map in\ndm_revalidate_zones() and only allowing that process to make use of it\nin dm_blk_report_zones()."
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