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CVE-2025-38129 is a use-after-free race in the Linux kernel page-pool subsystem. While page_pool_recycle_in_ring recycles the final page into the pointer ring, a concurrent page_pool_release operation can scrub and destroy the page pool. The destruction path can free the page-pool object before recycling completes, leaving the recycling path to release and access a producer lock in freed memory. KASAN detected the resulting slab use-after-free during lock release. The upstream fix adds producer-lock synchronization to page_pool_release, preventing destruction until in-progress page recycling has completed.
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A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel page_pool subsystem, specifically in page_pool_recycle_in_ring.
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel page_pool recycling path, specifically page_pool_recycle_in_ring.
A Linux kernel page_pool use-after-free vulnerability in page_pool_recycle_in_ring.
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel page_pool_recycle_in_ring functionality.
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