CVE-2025-38049

Technical Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

x86/resctrl: Fix allocation of cleanest CLOSID on platforms with no monitors

Commit

6eac36bb9eb0 ("x86/resctrl: Allocate the cleanest CLOSID by searching closid_num_dirty_rmid")

added logic that causes resctrl to search for the CLOSID with the fewest dirty

cache lines when creating a new control group, if requested by the arch code.

This depends on the values read from the llc_occupancy counters. The logic is

applicable to architectures where the CLOSID effectively forms part of the

monitoring identifier and so do not allow complete freedom to choose an unused

monitoring identifier for a given CLOSID.

This support missed that some platforms may not have these counters. This

causes a NULL pointer dereference when creating a new control group as the

array was not allocated by dom_data_init().

As this feature isn't necessary on platforms that don't have cache occupancy

monitors, add this to the check that occurs

Remediation

Check the references section for vendor advisories and patches from linux. Update linux_kernel to the latest patched version. If immediate patching is not possible, review the CVSS vector to understand the attack surface and apply compensating controls such as network segmentation or access restrictions.

Affected Products

References