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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38263" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:37.990Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:24:25.185Z" 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-2025-38263" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38263.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38263" title: "bcache: fix NULL pointer in cache_set_flush()" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbcache: fix NULL pointer in cache_set_flush()\n\n1. LINE#1794 - LINE#1887 is some codes about function of\n bch_cache_set_alloc().\n2. LINE#2078 - LINE#2142 is some codes about function of\n register_cache_set().\n3. register_cache_set() will call bch_cache_set_alloc() in LINE#2098.\n\n 1794 struct cache_set *bch_cache_set_alloc(struct cache_sb *sb)\n 1795 {\n ...\n 1860 if (!(c-\u003edevices = kcalloc(c-\u003enr_uuids, sizeof(void *), GFP_KERNEL)) ||\n 1861 mempool_init_slab_pool(&c-\u003esearch, 32, bch_search_cache) ||\n 1862 mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&c-\u003ebio_meta, 2,\n 1863 sizeof(struct bbio) + sizeof(struct bio_vec) *\n 1864 bucket_pages(c)) ||\n 1865 mempool_init_kmalloc_pool(&c-\u003efill_iter, 1, iter_size) ||\n 1866 bioset_init(&c-\u003ebio_split, 4, offsetof(struct bbio, bio),\n 1867 BIOSET_NEED_BVECS|BIOSET_NEED_RESCUER) ||\n 1868 !(c-\u003euuids = alloc_bucket_pages(GFP_KERNEL, c)) ||\n 1869 !(c-\u003emoving_gc_wq = alloc_workqueue(\"bcache_gc\",\n 1870 WQ_MEM_RECLAIM, 0)) ||\n 1871 bch_journal_alloc(c) ||\n 1872 bch_btree_cache_alloc(c) ||\n 1873 bch_open_buckets_alloc(c) ||\n 1874 bch_bset_sort_state_init(&c-\u003esort, ilog2(c-\u003ebtree_pages)))\n 1875 goto err;\n ^^^^^^^^\n 1876\n ...\n 1883 return c;\n 1884 err:\n 1885 bch_cache_set_unregister(c);\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n 1886 return NULL;\n 1887 }\n ...\n 2078 static const char *register_cache_set(struct cache *ca)\n 2079 {\n ...\n 2098 c = bch_cache_set_alloc(&ca-\u003esb);\n 2099 if (!c)\n 2100 return err;\n ^^^^^^^^^^\n ...\n 2128 ca-\u003eset = c;\n 2129 ca-\u003eset-\u003ecache[ca-\u003esb.nr_this_dev] = ca;\n ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^\n ...\n 2138 return NULL;\n 2139 err:\n 2140 bch_cache_set_unregister(c);\n 2141 return err;\n 2142 }\n\n(1) If LINE#1860 - LINE#1874 is true, then do 'goto err'(LINE#1875) and\n call bch_cache_set_unregister()(LINE#1885).\n(2) As (1) return NULL(LINE#1886), LINE#2098 - LINE#2100 would return.\n(3) As (2) has returned, LINE#2128 - LINE#2129 would do *not* give the\n value to c-\u003ecache[], it means that c-\u003ecache[] is NULL.\n\nLINE#1624 - LINE#1665 is some codes about function of cache_set_flush().\nAs (1), in LINE#1885 call\nbch_cache_set_unregister()\n---\u003e bch_cache_set_stop()\n ---\u003e closure_queue()\n -.-\u003e cache_set_flush() (as below LINE#1624)\n\n 1624 static void cache_set_flush(struct closure *cl)\n 1625 {\n ...\n 1654 for_each_cache(ca, c, i)\n 1655 if (ca-\u003ealloc_thread)\n ^^\n 1656 kthread_stop(ca-\u003ealloc_thread);\n ...\n 1665 }\n\n(4) In LINE#1655 ca is NULL(see (3)) in cache_set_flush() then the\n kernel crash occurred as below:\n[ 846.712887] bcache: register_cache() error drbd6: cannot allocate memory\n[ 846.713242] bcache: register_bcache() error : failed to register device\n[ 846.713336] bcache: cache_set_free() Cache set 2f84bdc1-498a-4f2f-98a7-01946bf54287 unregistered\n[ 846.713768] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000009f8\n[ 846.714790] PGD 0 P4D 0\n[ 846.715129] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI\n[ 846.715472] CPU: 19 PID: 5057 Comm: kworker/19:16 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE --------- - - 4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.5es.3.x86_64 #1\n[ 846.716082] Hardware name: ESPAN GI-25212/X11DPL-i, BIOS 2.1 06/15/2018\n[ 846.716451] Workqueue: events cache_set_flush [bcache]\n[ 846.716808] RIP: 0010:cache_set_flush+0xc9/0x1b0 [bcache]\n[ 846.717155] Code: 00 4c 89 a5 b0 03 00 00 48 8b 85 68 f6 ff ff a8 08 0f 84 88 00 00 00 31 db 66 83 bd 3c f7 ff ff 00 48 8b 85 48 ff ff ff 74 28 \u003c48\u003e 8b b8 f8 09 00 0\n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d54681938b777488e5dfb781b566d16adad991de"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f25f2d3fa29325320c19a30abf787e0bd5fc91b"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"c4f5e7e417034b05f5d2f5fa9a872db897da69bd"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"553f560e0a74a7008ad9dba05c3fd05da296befb"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"667c3f52373ff5354cb3543e27237eb7df7b2333"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"3f9e128186c99a117e304f1dce6d0b9e50c63cd8"},{"version":"cafe563591446cf80bfbc2fe3bc72a2e36cf1060","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e46ed947ec658f89f1a910d880cd05e42d3763e"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"3.10","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.10"},{"version":"5.10.240","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.10.*"},{"version":"5.15.187","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.143","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.96","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.36","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.5","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","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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