CVE-2025-22065

idpf: fix adapter NULL pointer dereference on reboot

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Apr 16, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Dec 29, 2024

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Description

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

idpf: fix adapter NULL pointer dereference on reboot

With SRIOV enabled, idpf ends up calling into idpf_remove() twice. First via idpf_shutdown() and then again when idpf_remove() calls into sriov_disable(), because the VF devices use the idpf driver, hence the same remove routine. When that happens, it is possible for the adapter to be NULL from the first call to idpf_remove(), leading to a NULL pointer dereference.

echo 1 > /sys/class/net/<netif>/device/sriov_numvfs reboot

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000020 ... RIP: 0010:idpf_remove+0x22/0x1f0 [idpf] ... ? idpf_remove+0x22/0x1f0 [idpf] ? idpf_remove+0x1e4/0x1f0 [idpf] pci_device_remove+0x3f/0xb0 device_release_driver_internal+0x19f/0x200 pci_stop_bus_device+0x6d/0x90 pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device+0x12/0x20 pci_iov_remove_virtfn+0xbe/0x120 sriov_disable+0x34/0xe0 idpf_sriov_configure+0x58/0x140 [idpf] idpf_remove+0x1b9/0x1f0 [idpf] idpf_shutdown+0x12/0x30 [idpf] pci_device_shutdown+0x35/0x60 device_shutdown+0x156/0x200 ...

Replace the direct idpf_remove() call in idpf_shutdown() with idpf_vc_core_deinit() and idpf_deinit_dflt_mbx(), which perform the bulk of the cleanup, such as stopping the init task, freeing IRQs, destroying the vports and freeing the mailbox. This avoids the calls to sriov_disable() in addition to a small netdev cleanup, and destroying workqueues, which don't seem to be required on shutdown.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • e850efed5e152e6bdd367d5b82019f21298c0653 to before 79618e952ef4dfa1a17ee0631d5549603fab58d8Affected
  • e850efed5e152e6bdd367d5b82019f21298c0653 to before 88a6d562e92a295648f8636acf2a6aa714241771Affected
  • e850efed5e152e6bdd367d5b82019f21298c0653 to before 9fc9b3dc0d0c189ed205acf1e5fbd73e0becc4d6Affected
  • e850efed5e152e6bdd367d5b82019f21298c0653 to before 4c9106f4906a85f6b13542d862e423bcdc118cc3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.7Affected
  • before 6.7Not affected
  • 6.12.23 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.13.11 through 6.13.*Not affected
  • 6.14.2 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

References

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