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Message-ID: <2025050117-CVE-2025-37781-3d19@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2025 15:07:29 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-37781: i2c: cros-ec-tunnel: defer probe if parent EC is not present
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Description
===========
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
i2c: cros-ec-tunnel: defer probe if parent EC is not present
When i2c-cros-ec-tunnel and the EC driver are built-in, the EC parent
device will not be found, leading to NULL pointer dereference.
That can also be reproduced by unbinding the controller driver and then
loading i2c-cros-ec-tunnel module (or binding the device).
[ 271.991245] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000058
[ 271.998215] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 272.003351] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 272.008485] PGD 0 P4D 0
[ 272.011022] Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 272.015207] CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 3859 Comm: insmod Tainted: G S 6.15.0-rc1-00004-g44722359ed83 #30 PREEMPT(full) 3c7fb39a552e7d949de2ad921a7d6588d3a4fdc5
[ 272.030312] Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
[ 272.034233] Hardware name: HP Berknip/Berknip, BIOS Google_Berknip.13434.356.0 05/17/2021
[ 272.042400] RIP: 0010:ec_i2c_probe+0x2b/0x1c0 [i2c_cros_ec_tunnel]
[ 272.048577] Code: 1f 44 00 00 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 83 ec 10 65 48 8b 05 06 a0 6c e7 48 89 44 24 08 4c 8d 7f 10 48 8b 47 50 4c 8b 60 78 <49> 83 7c 24 58 00 0f 84 2f 01 00 00 48 89 fb be 30 06 00 00 4c 9
[ 272.067317] RSP: 0018:ffffa32082a03940 EFLAGS: 00010282
[ 272.072541] RAX: ffff969580b6a810 RBX: ffff969580b68c10 RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 272.079672] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000282 RDI: ffff969580b68c00
[ 272.086804] RBP: 00000000fffffdfb R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 272.093936] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: ffffffffc0600000 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 272.101067] R13: ffffffffa666fbb8 R14: ffffffffc05b5528 R15: ffff969580b68c10
[ 272.108198] FS: 00007b930906fc40(0000) GS:ffff969603149000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 272.116282] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 272.122024] CR2: 0000000000000058 CR3: 000000012631c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
[ 272.129155] Call Trace:
[ 272.131606] <TASK>
[ 272.133709] ? acpi_dev_pm_attach+0xdd/0x110
[ 272.137985] platform_probe+0x69/0xa0
[ 272.141652] really_probe+0x152/0x310
[ 272.145318] __driver_probe_device+0x77/0x110
[ 272.149678] driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x190
[ 272.153864] __driver_attach+0x10b/0x1e0
[ 272.157790] ? driver_attach+0x20/0x20
[ 272.161542] bus_for_each_dev+0x107/0x150
[ 272.165553] bus_add_driver+0x15d/0x270
[ 272.169392] driver_register+0x65/0x110
[ 272.173232] ? cleanup_module+0xa80/0xa80 [i2c_cros_ec_tunnel 3a00532f3f4af4a9eade753f86b0f8dd4e4e5698]
[ 272.182617] do_one_initcall+0x110/0x350
[ 272.186543] ? security_kernfs_init_security+0x49/0xd0
[ 272.191682] ? __kernfs_new_node+0x1b9/0x240
[ 272.195954] ? security_kernfs_init_security+0x49/0xd0
[ 272.201093] ? __kernfs_new_node+0x1b9/0x240
[ 272.205365] ? kernfs_link_sibling+0x105/0x130
[ 272.209810] ? kernfs_next_descendant_post+0x1c/0xa0
[ 272.214773] ? kernfs_activate+0x57/0x70
[ 272.218699] ? kernfs_add_one+0x118/0x160
[ 272.222710] ? __kernfs_create_file+0x71/0xa0
[ 272.227069] ? sysfs_add_bin_file_mode_ns+0xd6/0x110
[ 272.232033] ? internal_create_group+0x453/0x4a0
[ 272.236651] ? __vunmap_range_noflush+0x214/0x2d0
[ 272.241355] ? __free_frozen_pages+0x1dc/0x420
[ 272.245799] ? free_vmap_area_noflush+0x10a/0x1c0
[ 272.250505] ? load_module+0x1509/0x16f0
[ 272.254431] do_init_module+0x60/0x230
[ 272.258181] __se_sys_finit_module+0x27a/0x370
[ 272.262627] do_syscall_64+0x6a/0xf0
[ 272.266206] ? do_syscall_64+0x76/0xf0
[ 272.269956] ? irqentry_exit_to_user_mode+0x79/0x90
[ 272.274836] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x55/0x5d
[ 272.279887] RIP: 0033:0x7b9309168d39
[ 272.283466] Code: 5b 41 5c 5d c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 66 90 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 8b 0d af 40 0c 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 8
[ 272.302210] RSP: 002b:00007fff50f1a288 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000139
[ 272.309774] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000058bf9b50f6d0 RCX: 00007b9309168d39
[ 272.316905] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 000058bf6c103a77 RDI: 0000000000000003
[ 272.324036] RBP: 00007fff50f1a2e0 R08: 00007fff50f19218 R09: 0000000021ec4150
[ 272.331166] R10: 000058bf9b50f7f0 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
[ 272.338296] R13: 00000000fffffffe R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 000058bf6c103a77
[ 272.345428] </TASK>
[ 272.347617] Modules linked in: i2c_cros_ec_tunnel(+)
[ 272.364585] gsmi: Log Shutdown Reason 0x03
Returning -EPROBE_DEFER will allow the device to be bound once the
controller is bound, in the case of built-in drivers.
The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-37781 to this issue.
Affected and fixed versions
===========================
Issue introduced in 3.16 with commit 9d230c9e4f4e67cb1c1cb9e0f6142da16b0f2796 and fixed in 6.1.135 with commit 3090cad5ccff8963b95160f4060068048a1e4c4c
Issue introduced in 3.16 with commit 9d230c9e4f4e67cb1c1cb9e0f6142da16b0f2796 and fixed in 6.6.88 with commit e89bf1311d4497c6743f3021e9c481b16c3a41c9
Issue introduced in 3.16 with commit 9d230c9e4f4e67cb1c1cb9e0f6142da16b0f2796 and fixed in 6.12.25 with commit 1355b5ca4782be85a2ef7275e4c508f770d0fb27
Issue introduced in 3.16 with commit 9d230c9e4f4e67cb1c1cb9e0f6142da16b0f2796 and fixed in 6.14.4 with commit da8edc9eb2516aface7f86be5fa6d09c0d07b9f8
Issue introduced in 3.16 with commit 9d230c9e4f4e67cb1c1cb9e0f6142da16b0f2796 and fixed in 6.15-rc3 with commit 424eafe65647a8d6c690284536e711977153195a
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-2025-37781
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/i2c/busses/i2c-cros-ec-tunnel.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/3090cad5ccff8963b95160f4060068048a1e4c4c
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e89bf1311d4497c6743f3021e9c481b16c3a41c9
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1355b5ca4782be85a2ef7275e4c508f770d0fb27
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/da8edc9eb2516aface7f86be5fa6d09c0d07b9f8
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/424eafe65647a8d6c690284536e711977153195a
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