CVE-2025-37920

xsk: Fix race condition in AF_XDP generic RX path

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
May 20, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

xsk: Fix race condition in AF_XDP generic RX path

Move rx_lock from xsk_socket to xsk_buff_pool. Fix synchronization for shared umem mode in generic RX path where multiple sockets share single xsk_buff_pool.

RX queue is exclusive to xsk_socket, while FILL queue can be shared between multiple sockets. This could result in race condition where two CPU cores access RX path of two different sockets sharing the same umem.

Protect both queues by acquiring spinlock in shared xsk_buff_pool.

Lock contention may be minimized in the future by some per-thread FQ buffering.

It's safe and necessary to move spin_lock_bh(rx_lock) after xsk_rcv_check(): * xs->pool and spinlock_init is synchronized by xsk_bind() -> xsk_is_bound() memory barriers. * xsk_rcv_check() may return true at the moment of xsk_release() or xsk_unbind_dev(), however this will not cause any data races or race conditions. xsk_unbind_dev() removes xdp socket from all maps and waits for completion of all outstanding rx operations. Packets in RX path will either complete safely or drop.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • bf0bdd1343efbbf65b4d53aef1fce14acbd79d50 to before 975b372313dc018b9bd6cc0d85d188787054b19eAffected
  • bf0bdd1343efbbf65b4d53aef1fce14acbd79d50 to before b6978c565ce33658543c637060852434b4248d30Affected
  • bf0bdd1343efbbf65b4d53aef1fce14acbd79d50 to before 65d3c570614b892257dc58a1b202908242ecf8fdAffected
  • bf0bdd1343efbbf65b4d53aef1fce14acbd79d50 to before 75a240a3e8abf17b9e00b0ef0492b1bbaa932251Affected
  • bf0bdd1343efbbf65b4d53aef1fce14acbd79d50 to before a1356ac7749cafc4e27aa62c0c4604b5dca4983eAffected
  • fd7c22ba7a0ad898b9ecf77dd53f5ccc48492e35Affected
  • 8a090e3b73eaffe18e08ccc3fb5abecf6b0a9781Affected
  • 5.1.20 to before 5.2Affected
  • 5.2.3 to before 5.3Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 5.3Affected
  • before 5.3Not affected
  • 6.1.164 through 6.1.*Not affected
  • 6.6.123 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.12.28 through 6.12.*Not affected
  • 6.14.6 through 6.14.*Not affected
  • 6.15 and laterNot affected

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