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Rocky Linux: CVE-2025-21961: kernel (RLSA-2025-9080)
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Oct 4, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 | Oct 6, 2025 |
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
eth: bnxt: fix truesize for mb-xdp-pass case
When mb-xdp is set and return is XDP_PASS, packet is converted from
xdp_buff to sk_buff with xdp_update_skb_shared_info() in
bnxt_xdp_build_skb().
bnxt_xdp_build_skb() passes incorrect truesize argument to
xdp_update_skb_shared_info().
The truesize is calculated as BNXT_RX_PAGE_SIZE * sinfo->nr_frags but
the skb_shared_info was wiped by napi_build_skb() before.
So it stores sinfo->nr_frags before bnxt_xdp_build_skb() and use it
instead of getting skb_shared_info from xdp_get_shared_info_from_buff().
Splat looks like:
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WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 0 at net/core/skbuff.c:6072 skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
Modules linked in: xt_nat xt_tcpudp veth af_packet xt_conntrack nft_chain_nat xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink xfrm_user xt_addrtype nft_coms
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc2+ #3
RIP: 0010:skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
Code: 4b fd ff ff 49 8b 34 24 40 80 e6 40 0f 84 3d fd ff ff 49 8b 74 24 48 40 f6 c6 01 0f 84 2e fd ff ff 48 8d 4e ff e9 25 fd ff ff <0f> 0b e99
RSP: 0018:ffffb62c4120caa8 EFLAGS: 00010287
RAX: 0000000000000003 RBX: ffffb62c4120cb14 RCX: 0000000000000ec0
RDX: 0000000000001000 RSI: ffffa06e5d7dc000 RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: ffffa06e5d7ddec0 R08: ffffa06e6120a800 R09: ffffa06e7a119900
R10: 0000000000002310 R11: ffffa06e5d7dcec0 R12: ffffe4360575f740
R13: ffffe43600000000 R14: 0000000000000002 R15: 0000000000000002
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffa0755f700000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f147b76b0f8 CR3: 00000001615d4000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? __warn+0x84/0x130
? skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
? report_bug+0x18a/0x1a0
? handle_bug+0x53/0x90
? exc_invalid_op+0x14/0x70
? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x16/0x20
? skb_try_coalesce+0x504/0x590
inet_frag_reasm_finish+0x11f/0x2e0
ip_defrag+0x37a/0x900
ip_local_deliver+0x51/0x120
ip_sublist_rcv_finish+0x64/0x70
ip_sublist_rcv+0x179/0x210
ip_list_rcv+0xf9/0x130
How to reproduce:
<Node A>
ip link set $interface1 xdp obj xdp_pass.o
ip link set $interface1 mtu 9000 up
ip a a 10.0.0.1/24 dev $interface1
<Node B>
ip link set $interfac2 mtu 9000 up
ip a a 10.0.0.2/24 dev $interface2
ping 10.0.0.1 -s 65000
Following ping.py patch adds xdp-mb-pass case. so ping.py is going to be
able to reproduce this issue.
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