CVE-2025-21883

ice: Fix deinitializing VF in error path

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 27, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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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).

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e to before 3c01102bec9592928e6b155da41cfcd5d25a2066Affected
  • 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e to before a4880583f88deba63504ce1c8287a70d39c01378Affected
  • 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e to before 34393fd78d7183a007eaf0090966ebedcc29bd57Affected
  • 8cd8a6b17d275a45e3722d0215f6115b687c8c3e to before 79990cf5e7aded76d0c092c9f5ed31eb1c75e02cAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.81 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.18 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.6 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14 and laterNot affected

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