linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38392: idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock

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Message-ID: <2025072508-CVE-2025-38392-17a6@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:55:23 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38392: idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

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

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

idpf: convert control queue mutex to a spinlock

With VIRTCHNL2_CAP_MACFILTER enabled, the following warning is generated
on module load:

[  324.701677] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:578
[  324.701684] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 1582, name: NetworkManager
[  324.701689] preempt_count: 201, expected: 0
[  324.701693] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
[  324.701697] 2 locks held by NetworkManager/1582:
[  324.701702]  #0: ffffffff9f7be770 (rtnl_mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: rtnl_newlink+0x791/0x21e0
[  324.701730]  #1: ff1100216c380368 (_xmit_ETHER){....}-{2:2}, at: __dev_open+0x3f0/0x870
[  324.701749] Preemption disabled at:
[  324.701752] [<ffffffff9cd23b9d>] __dev_open+0x3dd/0x870
[  324.701765] CPU: 30 UID: 0 PID: 1582 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 6.15.0-rc5+ #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
[  324.701771] Hardware name: Intel Corporation M50FCP2SBSTD/M50FCP2SBSTD, BIOS SE5C741.86B.01.01.0001.2211140926 11/14/2022
[  324.701774] Call Trace:
[  324.701777]  <TASK>
[  324.701779]  dump_stack_lvl+0x5d/0x80
[  324.701788]  ? __dev_open+0x3dd/0x870
[  324.701793]  __might_resched.cold+0x1ef/0x23d
<..>
[  324.701818]  __mutex_lock+0x113/0x1b80
<..>
[  324.701917]  idpf_ctlq_clean_sq+0xad/0x4b0 [idpf]
[  324.701935]  ? kasan_save_track+0x14/0x30
[  324.701941]  idpf_mb_clean+0x143/0x380 [idpf]
<..>
[  324.701991]  idpf_send_mb_msg+0x111/0x720 [idpf]
[  324.702009]  idpf_vc_xn_exec+0x4cc/0x990 [idpf]
[  324.702021]  ? rcu_is_watching+0x12/0xc0
[  324.702035]  idpf_add_del_mac_filters+0x3ed/0xb50 [idpf]
<..>
[  324.702122]  __hw_addr_sync_dev+0x1cf/0x300
[  324.702126]  ? find_held_lock+0x32/0x90
[  324.702134]  idpf_set_rx_mode+0x317/0x390 [idpf]
[  324.702152]  __dev_open+0x3f8/0x870
[  324.702159]  ? __pfx___dev_open+0x10/0x10
[  324.702174]  __dev_change_flags+0x443/0x650
<..>
[  324.702208]  netif_change_flags+0x80/0x160
[  324.702218]  do_setlink.isra.0+0x16a0/0x3960
<..>
[  324.702349]  rtnl_newlink+0x12fd/0x21e0

The sequence is as follows:
	rtnl_newlink()->
	__dev_change_flags()->
	__dev_open()->
	dev_set_rx_mode() - >  # disables BH and grabs "dev->addr_list_lock"
	idpf_set_rx_mode() ->  # proceed only if VIRTCHNL2_CAP_MACFILTER is ON
	__dev_uc_sync() ->
	idpf_add_mac_filter ->
	idpf_add_del_mac_filters ->
	idpf_send_mb_msg() ->
	idpf_mb_clean() ->
	idpf_ctlq_clean_sq()   # mutex_lock(cq_lock)

Fix by converting cq_lock to a spinlock. All operations under the new
lock are safe except freeing the DMA memory, which may use vunmap(). Fix
by requesting a contiguous physical memory for the DMA mapping.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38392 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit a251eee62133774cf35ff829041377e721ef9c8c and fixed in 6.12.37 with commit 9a36715cd6bc6a6f16230e19a7f947bab34b3fe5
	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit a251eee62133774cf35ff829041377e721ef9c8c and fixed in 6.15.6 with commit dc6c3c2c9dfdaa3a3357f59a80a2904677a71a9a
	Issue introduced in 6.7 with commit a251eee62133774cf35ff829041377e721ef9c8c and fixed in 6.16-rc5 with commit b2beb5bb2cd90d7939e470ed4da468683f41baa3

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-2025-38392
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/intel/idpf/idpf_controlq.c
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_controlq_api.h
	drivers/net/ethernet/intel/idpf/idpf_lib.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/9a36715cd6bc6a6f16230e19a7f947bab34b3fe5
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/dc6c3c2c9dfdaa3a3357f59a80a2904677a71a9a
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b2beb5bb2cd90d7939e470ed4da468683f41baa3