KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying

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    "title": "KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying",
    "summary": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: KVM: guest_memfd: Remove bindings on memslot deletion when gmem is dying When unbinding a memslot from a guest_memfd instance, remove the bindings even if the guest_memfd file is dying, i.e. even if its file refcount has gone to zero. If the memslot is freed before the file is fully released, nullifying the memslot side of the binding in kvm_gmem_release() will write to freed memory, as detected by syzbot+KASAN: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in kvm_gmem_release+0x176/0x440 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c:353 Write of size 8 at addr ffff88807befa508 by task syz.0.17/6022 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 6022 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/02/2025 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:378 [inline] print_report+0xca/0x240 mm/kasan/report.c:482 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:595 kvm_gmem_release+0x176/0x440 virt/kvm/guest_memfd.c:353 __fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:468 task_work_run+0x1d4/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227 resume_user_mode_work include/linux/resume_user_mode.h:50 [inline] exit_to_user_mode_loop+0xe9/0x130 kernel/entry/common.c:43 exit_to_user_mode_prepare include/linux/irq-entry-common.h:225 [inline] syscall_exit_to_user_mode_work include/linux/entry-common.h:175 [inline] sy",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:22.266547656Z",
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  "published_at": "2025-12-06T21:50:56.832+00:00"
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