CVE-2025-37787

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid unregistering devlink regions which were never registered

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
May 1, 2025
Updated
May 11, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: avoid unregistering devlink regions which were never registered

Russell King reports that a system with mv88e6xxx dereferences a NULL pointer when unbinding this driver: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/Z_lRkMlTJ1KQ0kVX@shell.armlinux.org.uk/

The crash seems to be in devlink_region_destroy(), which is not NULL tolerant but is given a NULL devlink global region pointer.

At least on some chips, some devlink regions are conditionally registered since the blamed commit, see mv88e6xxx_setup_devlink_regions_global():

if (cond && !cond(chip)) continue;

These are MV88E6XXX_REGION_STU and MV88E6XXX_REGION_PVT. If the chip does not have an STU or PVT, it should crash like this.

To fix the issue, avoid unregistering those regions which are NULL, i.e. were skipped at mv88e6xxx_setup_devlink_regions_global() time.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before 8ccdf5e24b276848eefb2755e05ff0f005a0c4a1Affected
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before b3c70dfe51f10df60db2646c08cebd24bcdc5247Affected
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before bbb80f004f7a90c3dcaacc982c59967457254a05Affected
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before 3665695e3572239dc233216f06b41f40cc771889Affected
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before 5f5e95945bb1e08be7655da6acba648274db457dAffected
  • 836021a2d0e0e4c90b895a35bd9c0342071855fb to before c84f6ce918a9e6f4996597cbc62536bbf2247c96Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.13Affected
  • before 5.13Not affected
  • 5.15.181 through 5.15.*Not affected
  • 6.1.135 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.88 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.25 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.14.4 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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