linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-39769: bnxt_en: Fix lockdep warning during rmmod

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Message-ID: <2025091145-CVE-2025-39769-da91@gregkh>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:56:48 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-39769: bnxt_en: Fix lockdep warning during rmmod

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

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

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

bnxt_en: Fix lockdep warning during rmmod

The commit under the Fixes tag added a netdev_assert_locked() in
bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs().  The lock should be held during normal run-time
but the assert will be triggered (see below) during bnxt_remove_one()
which should not need the lock.  The netdev is already unregistered by
then.  Fix it by calling netdev_assert_locked_or_invisible() which will
not assert if the netdev is unregistered.

WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 2241 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:17 bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs+0xf8/0x100 [bnxt_en]
Modules linked in: rpcrdma rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm configfs ib_core bnxt_en(-) bridge stp llc x86_pkg_temp_thermal xfs tg3 [last unloaded: bnxt_re]
CPU: 5 UID: 0 PID: 2241 Comm: rmmod Tainted: G S      W           6.16.0 #2 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC, [W]=WARN
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
RIP: 0010:bnxt_free_ntp_fltrs+0xf8/0x100 [bnxt_en]
Code: 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc 48 8b 47 60 be ff ff ff ff 48 8d b8 28 0c 00 00 e8 d0 cf 41 c3 85 c0 0f 85 2e ff ff ff <0f> 0b e9 27 ff ff ff 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90
RSP: 0018:ffffa92082387da0 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff9e5b593d8000 RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffffffff83dc9a70 RDI: ffffffff83e1a1cf
RBP: ffff9e5b593d8c80 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffffffff8373a2b3
R10: 000000008100009f R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000001
R13: ffffffffc01c4478 R14: dead000000000122 R15: dead000000000100
FS:  00007f3a8a52c740(0000) GS:ffff9e631ad1c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000055bb289419c8 CR3: 000000011274e001 CR4: 00000000003706f0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 bnxt_remove_one+0x57/0x180 [bnxt_en]
 pci_device_remove+0x39/0xc0
 device_release_driver_internal+0xa5/0x130
 driver_detach+0x42/0x90
 bus_remove_driver+0x61/0xc0
 pci_unregister_driver+0x38/0x90
 bnxt_exit+0xc/0x7d0 [bnxt_en]

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-39769 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 004b5008016a2cc37103bf8d9968573771cd311f and fixed in 6.16.4 with commit 5885d39dce879fbbc953f40e19adb60c29802302
	Issue introduced in 6.15 with commit 004b5008016a2cc37103bf8d9968573771cd311f and fixed in 6.17-rc3 with commit 4611d88a37cfc18cbabc6978aaf7325d1ae3f53a

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-2025-39769
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/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.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/5885d39dce879fbbc953f40e19adb60c29802302
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4611d88a37cfc18cbabc6978aaf7325d1ae3f53a