RDMA/mlx5: Fix implicit ODP use after free
CVE-2025-21714 · published 27 Feb 2025
How serious is it
- Severity: high, CVSS score 7.8 out of 10.
- No exploit prediction (EPSS) score yet.
- Not on the CISA list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- No public exploit in Exploit-DB.
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Who is affected
- Linux Linux: 5256edcb98a14b11409a2d323f56a70a8b366363 to < a306dfff6b76aafa264ad33874a8992a8d5858b7, 5256edcb98a14b11409a2d323f56a70a8b366363 to < 7cc8f681f6d4ae4478ae0f60485fc768f2b450da, 5256edcb98a14b11409a2d323f56a70a8b366363 to < edfb65dbb9ffd3102f3ff4dd21316158e56f1976, 5256edcb98a14b11409a2d323f56a70a8b366363 to < d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773
- Linux Linux: 5.5
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The advisory
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
RDMA/mlx5: Fix implicit ODP use after free
Prevent double queueing of implicit ODP mr destroy work by using
__xa_cmpxchg() to make sure this is the only time we are destroying this
specific mr.
Without this change, we could try to invalidate this mr twice, which in
turn could result in queuing a MR work destroy twice, and eventually the
second work could execute after the MR was freed due to the first work,
causing a user after free and trace below.
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 12178 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0x12b/0x130
Modules linked in: bonding ib_ipoib vfio_pci ip_gre geneve nf_tables ip6_gre gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 ipip tunnel4 ib_umad rdma_ucm mlx5_vfio_pci vfio_pci_core vfio_iommu_type1 mlx5_ib vfio ib_uverbs mlx5_core iptable_raw openvswitch nsh rpcrdma ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm ib_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss oid_registry overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: ib_uverbs]
CPU: 2 PID: 12178 Comm: kworker/u20:5 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1_net_next_mlx5_58c644e #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: events_unbound free_implicit_child_mr_work [mlx5_ib]
RIP: 0010:refcount_warn_saturate+0x12b/0x130
Code: 48 c7 c7 38 95 2a 82 c6 05 bc c6 fe 00 01 e8 0c 66 aa ff 0f 0b 5b c3 48 c7 c7 e0 94 2a 82 c6 05 a7 c6 fe 00 01 e8 f5 65 aa ff <0f> 0b 5b c3 90 8b 07 3d 00 00 00 c0 74 12 83 f8 01 74 13 8d 50 ff
RSP: 0018:ffff8881008e3e40 EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000027
RDX: ffff88852c91b5c8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff88852c91b5c0
RBP: ffff8881dacd4e00 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000019
R10: 000000000000072e R11: 0000000063666572 R12: ffff88812bfd9e00
R13: ffff8881c792d200 R14: ffff88810011c005 R15: ffff8881002099c0
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88852c900000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007f5694b5e000 CR3: 00000001153f6003 CR4: 0000000000370ea0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? refcount_warn_saturate+0x12b/0x130
free_implicit_child_mr_work+0x180/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib]
process_one_work+0x1cc/0x3c0
worker_thread+0x218/0x3c0
kthread+0xc6/0xf0
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
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References
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/a306dfff6b76aafa264ad33874a8992a8d5858b7
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cc8f681f6d4ae4478ae0f60485fc768f2b450da
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/edfb65dbb9ffd3102f3ff4dd21316158e56f1976
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773
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