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Red Hat: CVE-2025-39979: kernel: net/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:C)
Published
Oct 15, 2025
Added
Dec 10, 2025
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

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

net/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release

Fix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an HWS action of a local flow
counter in mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte(), where the HWS action refcount and
mutex were not initialized and the counter struct could already be freed
when deleting the rule.

Fix it by adding the missing initializations and adding refcount for the
local flow counter struct.

[1] Kernel log:
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48
mlx5_fs_put_hws_action.part.0.cold+0x21/0x94 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_fc_put_hws_action+0x96/0xad [mlx5_core]
mlx5_fs_destroy_fs_actions+0x8b/0x152 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte+0x5a/0xa0 [mlx5_core]
del_hw_fte+0x1ce/0x260 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x12d/0x240 [mlx5_core]
? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xf4/0x110
mlx5_ib_destroy_flow+0x103/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib]
uverbs_free_flow+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs]
destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs]
uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x34/0x1a0 [ib_uverbs]
uobj_destroy+0x3c/0x80 [ib_uverbs]
ib_uverbs_run_method+0x23e/0x360 [ib_uverbs]
? uverbs_finalize_object+0x60/0x60 [ib_uverbs]
ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x14f/0x2c0 [ib_uverbs]
? do_tty_write+0x1a9/0x270
? file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x98/0xc0
? new_sync_write+0xfc/0x190
ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xd7/0x160 [ib_uverbs]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x87/0xc0
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90

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