vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2025-38109: kernel: net/mlx5: Fix ECVF vports unload on shutdown flow

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 3, 2025
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025

Description

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

net/mlx5: Fix ECVF vports unload on shutdown flow

Fix shutdown flow UAF when a virtual function is created on the embedded
chip (ECVF) of a BlueField device. In such case the vport acl ingress
table is not properly destroyed.

ECVF functionality is independent of ecpf_vport_exists capability and
thus functions mlx5_eswitch_(enable|disable)_pf_vf_vports() should not
test it when enabling/disabling ECVF vports.

kernel log:
[] refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
[] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 1 at lib/refcount.c:28
refcount_warn_saturate+0x124/0x220
----------------
[] Call trace:
[] refcount_warn_saturate+0x124/0x220
[] tree_put_node+0x164/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_destroy_flow_table+0x98/0x2c0 [mlx5_core]
[] esw_acl_ingress_table_destroy+0x28/0x40 [mlx5_core]
[] esw_acl_ingress_lgcy_cleanup+0x80/0xf4 [mlx5_core]
[] esw_legacy_vport_acl_cleanup+0x44/0x60 [mlx5_core]
[] esw_vport_cleanup+0x64/0x90 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_esw_vport_disable+0xc0/0x1d0 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_eswitch_unload_ec_vf_vports+0xcc/0x150 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_eswitch_disable_sriov+0x198/0x2a0 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_device_disable_sriov+0xb8/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_sriov_detach+0x40/0x50 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_unload+0x40/0xc4 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_unload_one_devl_locked+0x6c/0xe4 [mlx5_core]
[] mlx5_unload_one+0x3c/0x60 [mlx5_core]
[] shutdown+0x7c/0xa4 [mlx5_core]
[] pci_device_shutdown+0x3c/0xa0
[] device_shutdown+0x170/0x340
[] __do_sys_reboot+0x1f4/0x2a0
[] __arm64_sys_reboot+0x2c/0x40
[] invoke_syscall+0x78/0x100
[] el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x54/0x184
[] do_el0_svc+0x30/0xac
[] el0_svc+0x48/0x160
[] el0t_64_sync_handler+0xa4/0x12c
[] el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
[] --[ end trace 9c4601d68c70030e ]---

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