CVE-2025-38033

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

x86/Kconfig: make CFI_AUTO_DEFAULT depend on !RUST or Rust >= 1.88

Calling core::fmt::write() from rust code while FineIBT is enabled results in a kernel panic:

[ 4614.199779] kernel BUG at arch/x86/kernel/cet.c:132! [ 4614.205343] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI [ 4614.211781] CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 6057 Comm: dmabuf_dump Tainted: G U O 6.12.17-android16-0-g6ab38c534a43 #1 9da040f27673ec3945e23b998a0f8bd64c846599 [ 4614.227832] Tainted: [U]=USER, [O]=OOT_MODULE [ 4614.241247] RIP: 0010:do_kernel_cp_fault+0xea/0xf0 … [ 4614.398144] RIP: 0010:_RNvXs5_NtNtNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt3num3impyNtB9_7Display3fmt+0x0/0x20 [ 4614.407792] Code: 48 f7 df 48 0f 48 f9 48 89 f2 89 c6 5d e9 18 fd ff ff 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 41 81 ea 14 61 af 2c 74 03 0f 0b 90 <66> 0f 1f 00 55 48 89 e5 48 89 f2 48 8b 3f be 01 00 00 00 5d e9 e7 [ 4614.428775] RSP: 0018:ffffb95acfa4ba68 EFLAGS: 00010246 [ 4614.434609] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000010 RCX: 0000000000000000 [ 4614.442587] RDX: 0000000000000007 RSI: ffffb95acfa4ba70 RDI: ffffb95acfa4bc88 [ 4614.450557] RBP: ffffb95acfa4bae0 R08: ffff0a00ffffff05 R09: 0000000000000070 [ 4614.458527] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffab67eaf0 R12: ffffb95acfa4bcc8 [ 4614.466493] R13: ffffffffac5d50f0 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 4614.474473] ? __cfi__RNvXs5_NtNtNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt3num3impyNtB9_7Display3fmt+0x10/0x10 [ 4614.484118] ? _RNvNtCs3o2tGsuHyou_4core3fmt5write+0x1d2/0x250

This happens because core::fmt::write() calls core::fmt::rt::Argument::fmt(), which currently has CFI disabled:

library/core/src/fmt/rt.rs: 171 // FIXME: Transmuting formatter in new and indirectly branching to/calling 172 // it here is an explicit CFI violation. 173 #[allow(inline_no_sanitize)] 174 #[no_sanitize(cfi, kcfi)] 175 #[inline] 176 pub(super) unsafe fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter<_>) -> Result {

This causes a Control Protection exception, because FineIBT has sealed off the original functions endbr64.

This makes rust currently incompatible with FineIBT. Add a Kconfig dependency that prevents FineIBT from getting turned on by default if rust is enabled.

[ Rust 1.88.0 (scheduled for 2025-06-26) should have this fixed [1], and thus we relaxed the condition with Rust >= 1.88.

When objtool lands checking for this with e.g. [2], the plan is to ideally run that in upstream Rusts CI to prevent regressions early [3], since we do not control cores source code.

Alice tested the Rust PR backported to an older compiler.

Peter would like that Rust provides a stable core which can be pulled into the kernel: Relying on that much out of tree code is unfortunate.

- Miguel ]

[ Reduced splat. - Miguel ]

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5595c31c370957aabe739ac3996aedba8267603f
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a8d073d87da4ad1496b35adaee5719e94665d81
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6b9956d09382bcbd5fd260c4b60ec48680a4cffb