linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-38372: RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling

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Message-ID: <2025072503-CVE-2025-38372-6659@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:55:03 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38372: RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling

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

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

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

RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling

__xa_store() and __xa_erase() were used without holding the proper lock,
which led to a lockdep warning due to unsafe RCU usage.  This patch
replaces them with xa_store() and xa_erase(), which perform the necessary
locking internally.

  =============================
  WARNING: suspicious RCPU usage
  6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Not tainted
  -----------------------------
  ./include/linux/xarray.h:1211 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

  other info that might help us debug this:

  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
  3 locks held by kworker/u136:0/219:
      at: process_one_work+0xbe4/0x15f0
      process_one_work+0x75c/0x15f0
      pagefault_mr+0x9a5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]

  stack backtrace:
  CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 219 Comm: kworker/u136:0 Not tainted
  6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
  rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
  Workqueue: mlx5_ib_page_fault mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action [mlx5_ib]
  Call Trace:
   dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0xc0
   lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e6/0x260
   xas_create+0xb8a/0xee0
   xas_store+0x73/0x14c0
   __xa_store+0x13c/0x220
   ? xa_store_range+0x390/0x390
   ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0
   pagefault_mr+0xcb5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]
   ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30
   mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action+0x3be/0x2620 [mlx5_ib]
   ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400
   ? mlx5_ib_invalidate_range+0xcb0/0xcb0 [mlx5_ib]
   process_one_work+0x7db/0x15f0
   ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xda0/0xda0
   ? assign_work+0x168/0x240
   worker_thread+0x57d/0xcd0
   ? rescuer_thread+0xc40/0xc40
   kthread+0x3b3/0x800
   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
   ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680
   ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270
   ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0
   ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x284/0x9e0
   ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400
   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
   ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
   ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38372 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.12.13 with commit 7cc8f681f6d4ae4478ae0f60485fc768f2b450da and fixed in 6.12.37 with commit 9d2ef890e49963b768d4fe5a33029aacd9f6b93f
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773 and fixed in 6.15.6 with commit ebebffb47c78f63ba7e4fbde393e44af38b7625d
	Issue introduced in 6.14 with commit d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773 and fixed in 6.16-rc5 with commit 2c6b640ea08bff1a192bf87fa45246ff1e40767c
	Issue introduced in 6.13.2 with commit edfb65dbb9ffd3102f3ff4dd21316158e56f1976

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-2025-38372
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/infiniband/hw/mlx5/odp.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/9d2ef890e49963b768d4fe5a33029aacd9f6b93f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ebebffb47c78f63ba7e4fbde393e44af38b7625d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/2c6b640ea08bff1a192bf87fa45246ff1e40767c