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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38475"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-28T11:21:36.293Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-05T12:02:12.245Z"
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-2025-38475"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38475.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38475"
title: "smc: Fix various oops due to inet_sock type confusion."
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmc: Fix various oops due to inet_sock type confusion.\n\nsyzbot reported weird splats [0][1] in cipso_v4_sock_setattr() while\nfreeing inet_sk(sk)-\u003einet_opt.\n\nThe address was freed multiple times even though it was read-only memory.\n\ncipso_v4_sock_setattr() did nothing wrong, and the root cause was type\nconfusion.\n\nThe cited commit made it possible to create smc_sock as an INET socket.\n\nThe issue is that struct smc_sock does not have struct inet_sock as the\nfirst member but hijacks AF_INET and AF_INET6 sk_family, which confuses\nvarious places.\n\nIn this case, inet_sock.inet_opt was actually smc_sock.clcsk_data_ready(),\nwhich is an address of a function in the text segment.\n\n  $ pahole -C inet_sock vmlinux\n  struct inet_sock {\n  ...\n          struct ip_options_rcu *    inet_opt;             /*   784     8 */\n\n  $ pahole -C smc_sock vmlinux\n  struct smc_sock {\n  ...\n          void                       (*clcsk_data_ready)(struct sock *); /*   784     8 */\n\nThe same issue for another field was reported before. [2][3]\n\nAt that time, an ugly hack was suggested [4], but it makes both INET\nand SMC code error-prone and hard to change.\n\nAlso, yet another variant was fixed by a hacky commit 98d4435efcbf3\n(\"net/smc: prevent NULL pointer dereference in txopt_get\").\n\nInstead of papering over the root cause by such hacks, we should not\nallow non-INET socket to reuse the INET infra.\n\nLet's add inet_sock as the first member of smc_sock.\n\n[0]:\nkvfree_call_rcu(): Double-freed call. rcu_head 000000006921da73\nWARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 6718 at mm/slab_common.c:1956 kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6718 Comm: syz.0.17 Tainted: G        W           6.16.0-rc4-syzkaller-g7482bb149b9f #0 PREEMPT\nTainted: [W]=WARN\nHardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025\npstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)\npc : kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955\nlr : kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955\nsp : ffff8000a03a7730\nx29: ffff8000a03a7730 x28: 00000000fffffff5 x27: 1fffe000184823d3\nx26: dfff800000000000 x25: ffff0000c2411e9e x24: ffff0000dd88da00\nx23: ffff8000891ac9a0 x22: 00000000ffffffea x21: ffff8000891ac9a0\nx20: ffff8000891ac9a0 x19: ffff80008afc2480 x18: 00000000ffffffff\nx17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80008ae642c8 x15: ffff700011ede14c\nx14: 1ffff00011ede14c x13: 0000000000000004 x12: ffffffffffffffff\nx11: ffff700011ede14c x10: 0000000000ff0100 x9 : 5fa3c1ffaf0ff000\nx8 : 5fa3c1ffaf0ff000 x7 : 0000000000000001 x6 : 0000000000000001\nx5 : ffff8000a03a7078 x4 : ffff80008f766c20 x3 : ffff80008054d360\nx2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000201 x0 : 0000000000000000\nCall trace:\n kvfree_call_rcu+0x94/0x3f0 mm/slab_common.c:1955 (P)\n cipso_v4_sock_setattr+0x2f0/0x3f4 net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c:1914\n netlbl_sock_setattr+0x240/0x334 net/netlabel/netlabel_kapi.c:1000\n smack_netlbl_add+0xa8/0x158 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2581\n smack_inode_setsecurity+0x378/0x430 security/smack/smack_lsm.c:2912\n security_inode_setsecurity+0x118/0x3c0 security/security.c:2706\n __vfs_setxattr_noperm+0x174/0x5c4 fs/xattr.c:251\n __vfs_setxattr_locked+0x1ec/0x218 fs/xattr.c:295\n vfs_setxattr+0x158/0x2ac fs/xattr.c:321\n do_setxattr fs/xattr.c:636 [inline]\n file_setxattr+0x1b8/0x294 fs/xattr.c:646\n path_setxattrat+0x2ac/0x320 fs/xattr.c:711\n __do_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:761 [inline]\n __se_sys_fsetxattr fs/xattr.c:758 [inline]\n __arm64_sys_fsetxattr+0xc0/0xdc fs/xattr.c:758\n __invoke_syscall arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:35 [inline]\n invoke_syscall+0x98/0x2b8 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:49\n el0_svc_common+0x130/0x23c arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:132\n do_el0_svc+0x48/0x58 arch/arm64/kernel/syscall.c:151\n el0_svc+0x58/0x180 arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:879\n el0t_64_sync_handler+0x84/0x12c arch/arm64/kernel/entry-common.c:898\n el0t_64_sync+0x198/0x19c arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S:600\n\n[\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"5b02e397929e5b13b969ef1f8e43c7951e2864f5"},{"version":"d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"67a167a6b8b45607bc34aa541d1c75097d18d460"},{"version":"d25a92ccae6bed02327b63d138e12e7806830f78","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"60ada4fe644edaa6c2da97364184b0425e8aeaf5"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.11","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.11"},{"version":"6.12.40","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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