linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21801: net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path

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Message-ID: <2025022752-CVE-2025-21801-5496@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 11:59:55 -0800
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21801: net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path

Description
===========

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

net: ravb: Fix missing rtnl lock in suspend/resume path

Fix the suspend/resume path by ensuring the rtnl lock is held where
required. Calls to ravb_open, ravb_close and wol operations must be
performed under the rtnl lock to prevent conflicts with ongoing ndo
operations.

Without this fix, the following warning is triggered:
[   39.032969] =============================
[   39.032983] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
[   39.033019] -----------------------------
[   39.033033] drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c:2004 suspicious
rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
...
[   39.033597] stack backtrace:
[   39.033613] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 174 Comm: python3 Not tainted
6.13.0-rc7-next-20250116-arm64-renesas-00002-g35245dfdc62c #7
[   39.033623] Hardware name: Renesas SMARC EVK version 2 based on
r9a08g045s33 (DT)
[   39.033628] Call trace:
[   39.033633]  show_stack+0x14/0x1c (C)
[   39.033652]  dump_stack_lvl+0xb4/0xc4
[   39.033664]  dump_stack+0x14/0x1c
[   39.033671]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x16c/0x22c
[   39.033682]  phy_detach+0x160/0x190
[   39.033694]  phy_disconnect+0x40/0x54
[   39.033703]  ravb_close+0x6c/0x1cc
[   39.033714]  ravb_suspend+0x48/0x120
[   39.033721]  dpm_run_callback+0x4c/0x14c
[   39.033731]  device_suspend+0x11c/0x4dc
[   39.033740]  dpm_suspend+0xdc/0x214
[   39.033748]  dpm_suspend_start+0x48/0x60
[   39.033758]  suspend_devices_and_enter+0x124/0x574
[   39.033769]  pm_suspend+0x1ac/0x274
[   39.033778]  state_store+0x88/0x124
[   39.033788]  kobj_attr_store+0x14/0x24
[   39.033798]  sysfs_kf_write+0x48/0x6c
[   39.033808]  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x118/0x1a8
[   39.033817]  vfs_write+0x27c/0x378
[   39.033825]  ksys_write+0x64/0xf4
[   39.033833]  __arm64_sys_write+0x18/0x20
[   39.033841]  invoke_syscall+0x44/0x104
[   39.033852]  el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0xb4/0xd4
[   39.033862]  do_el0_svc+0x18/0x20
[   39.033870]  el0_svc+0x3c/0xf0
[   39.033880]  el0t_64_sync_handler+0xc0/0xc4
[   39.033888]  el0t_64_sync+0x154/0x158
[   39.041274] ravb 11c30000.ethernet eth0: Link is Down

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21801 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 4.9 with commit 0184165b2f42c4b032da9dd11546bfbaeb5afd4e and fixed in 6.12.13 with commit 0296981941cf291edfbc318d3255a93439f368e4
	Issue introduced in 4.9 with commit 0184165b2f42c4b032da9dd11546bfbaeb5afd4e and fixed in 6.13.2 with commit ad19522c007bb24ed874468f8baa1503c4662cf4
	Issue introduced in 4.9 with commit 0184165b2f42c4b032da9dd11546bfbaeb5afd4e and fixed in 6.14-rc1 with commit 2c2ebb2b49573e5f8726112ad06b1dffc3c9ea03

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21801
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/renesas/ravb_main.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0296981941cf291edfbc318d3255a93439f368e4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ad19522c007bb24ed874468f8baa1503c4662cf4
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c2ebb2b49573e5f8726112ad06b1dffc3c9ea03