vulnerability

Rocky Linux: CVE-2025-21883: kernel (RLSA-2025-9302)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Oct 4, 2025
Added
Oct 6, 2025
Modified
Oct 30, 2025

Description

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

ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path

If ice_ena_vfs() fails after calling ice_create_vf_entries(), it frees
all VFs without removing them from snapshot PF-VF mailbox list, leading
to list corruption.

Reproducer:
devlink dev eswitch set $PF1_PCI mode switchdev
ip l s $PF1 up
ip l s $PF1 promisc on
sleep 1
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs
sleep 1
echo 1 > /sys/class/net/$PF1/device/sriov_numvfs

Trace (minimized):
list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff8882e241c6f0), but was 0000000000000000. (next=ffff888455da1330).
kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29!
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xa6/0x100
ice_mbx_init_vf_info+0xa7/0x180 [ice]
ice_initialize_vf_entry+0x1fa/0x250 [ice]
ice_sriov_configure+0x8d7/0x1520 [ice]
? __percpu_ref_switch_mode+0x1b1/0x5d0
? __pfx_ice_sriov_configure+0x10/0x10 [ice]

Sometimes a KASAN report can be seen instead with a similar stack trace:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf1/0x100

VFs are added to this list in ice_mbx_init_vf_info(), but only removed
in ice_free_vfs(). Move the removing to ice_free_vf_entries(), which is
also being called in other places where VFs are being removed (including
ice_free_vfs() itself).

Solutions

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