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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-71181"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-01-31T11:38:54.221Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:56:13.676Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:44.935Z"
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-2025-71181"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-71181.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-71181"
title: "rust_binder: remove spin_lock() in rust_shrink_free_page()"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nrust_binder: remove spin_lock() in rust_shrink_free_page()\n\nWhen forward-porting Rust Binder to 6.18, I neglected to take commit\nfb56fdf8b9a2 (\"mm/list_lru: split the lock to per-cgroup scope\") into\naccount, and apparently I did not end up running the shrinker callback\nwhen I sanity tested the driver before submission. This leads to crashes\nlike the following:\n\n\t============================================\n\tWARNING: possible recursive locking detected\n\t6.18.0-mainline-maybe-dirty #1 Tainted: G          IO\n\t--------------------------------------------\n\tkswapd0/68 is trying to acquire lock:\n\tffff956000fa18b0 (&l-\u003elock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: lock_list_lru_of_memcg+0x128/0x230\n\n\tbut task is already holding lock:\n\tffff956000fa18b0 (&l-\u003elock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: rust_helper_spin_lock+0xd/0x20\n\n\tother info that might help us debug this:\n\t Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n\t       CPU0\n\t       ----\n\t  lock(&l-\u003elock);\n\t  lock(&l-\u003elock);\n\n\t *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n\t May be due to missing lock nesting notation\n\n\t3 locks held by kswapd0/68:\n\t #0: ffffffff90d2e260 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0x597/0x1160\n\t #1: ffff956000fa18b0 (&l-\u003elock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: rust_helper_spin_lock+0xd/0x20\n\t #2: ffffffff90cf3680 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: lock_list_lru_of_memcg+0x2d/0x230\n\nTo fix this, remove the spin_lock() call from rust_shrink_free_page()."
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