linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-21862: drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order

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Message-ID: <2025031217-CVE-2025-21862-e8a0@gregkh>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:42:28 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21862: drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order

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

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

drop_monitor: fix incorrect initialization order

Syzkaller reports the following bug:

BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#1, syz-executor.0/7995
 lock: 0xffff88805303f3e0, .magic: 00000000, .owner: <none>/-1, .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 1 PID: 7995 Comm: syz-executor.0 Tainted: G            E     5.10.209+ #1
Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 11/12/2020
Call Trace:
 __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:77 [inline]
 dump_stack+0x119/0x179 lib/dump_stack.c:118
 debug_spin_lock_before kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:83 [inline]
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x1f6/0x270 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:112
 __raw_spin_lock_irqsave include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:117 [inline]
 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x50/0x70 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:159
 reset_per_cpu_data+0xe6/0x240 [drop_monitor]
 net_dm_cmd_trace+0x43d/0x17a0 [drop_monitor]
 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x22f/0x330 net/netlink/genetlink.c:739
 genl_family_rcv_msg net/netlink/genetlink.c:783 [inline]
 genl_rcv_msg+0x341/0x5a0 net/netlink/genetlink.c:800
 netlink_rcv_skb+0x14d/0x440 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2497
 genl_rcv+0x29/0x40 net/netlink/genetlink.c:811
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1322 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0x54b/0x800 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1348
 netlink_sendmsg+0x914/0xe00 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1916
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:651 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x157/0x190 net/socket.c:663
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x712/0x870 net/socket.c:2378
 ___sys_sendmsg+0xf8/0x170 net/socket.c:2432
 __sys_sendmsg+0xea/0x1b0 net/socket.c:2461
 do_syscall_64+0x30/0x40 arch/x86/entry/common.c:46
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x62/0xc7
RIP: 0033:0x7f3f9815aee9
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b0 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007f3f972bf0c8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f3f9826d050 RCX: 00007f3f9815aee9
RDX: 0000000020000000 RSI: 0000000020001300 RDI: 0000000000000007
RBP: 00007f3f981b63bd R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 000000000000006e R14: 00007f3f9826d050 R15: 00007ffe01ee6768

If drop_monitor is built as a kernel module, syzkaller may have time
to send a netlink NET_DM_CMD_START message during the module loading.
This will call the net_dm_monitor_start() function that uses
a spinlock that has not yet been initialized.

To fix this, let's place resource initialization above the registration
of a generic netlink family.

Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
(linuxtesting.org) with Syzkaller.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21862 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 2.6.30 with commit 9a8afc8d3962f3ed26fd6b56db34133860ed1e72 and fixed in 6.1.130 with commit fcfc00bfec7bb6661074cb21356d05a4c9470a3c
	Issue introduced in 2.6.30 with commit 9a8afc8d3962f3ed26fd6b56db34133860ed1e72 and fixed in 6.6.80 with commit 0efa6c42f81c60d8f72ba7f5ed8d4fec8c526282
	Issue introduced in 2.6.30 with commit 9a8afc8d3962f3ed26fd6b56db34133860ed1e72 and fixed in 6.12.17 with commit b7859e8643e75619b2705b4fcac93ffd94d72b4a
	Issue introduced in 2.6.30 with commit 9a8afc8d3962f3ed26fd6b56db34133860ed1e72 and fixed in 6.13.5 with commit 219a47d0e6195bd202f22855e35f25bd15bc4d58
	Issue introduced in 2.6.30 with commit 9a8afc8d3962f3ed26fd6b56db34133860ed1e72 and fixed in 6.14-rc4 with commit 07b598c0e6f06a0f254c88dafb4ad50f8a8c6eea

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-2025-21862
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:
	net/core/drop_monitor.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/fcfc00bfec7bb6661074cb21356d05a4c9470a3c
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0efa6c42f81c60d8f72ba7f5ed8d4fec8c526282
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b7859e8643e75619b2705b4fcac93ffd94d72b4a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/219a47d0e6195bd202f22855e35f25bd15bc4d58
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/07b598c0e6f06a0f254c88dafb4ad50f8a8c6eea