linux-cve-announce - CVE-2025-68215: ice: fix PTP cleanup on driver removal in error path

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Message-ID: <2025121631-CVE-2025-68215-ee77@gregkh>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:57:34 +0100
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-68215: ice: fix PTP cleanup on driver removal in error path

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

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

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

ice: fix PTP cleanup on driver removal in error path

Improve the cleanup on releasing PTP resources in error path.
The error case might happen either at the driver probe and PTP
feature initialization or on PTP restart (errors in reset handling, NVM
update etc). In both cases, calls to PF PTP cleanup (ice_ptp_cleanup_pf
function) and 'ps_lock' mutex deinitialization were missed.
Additionally, ptp clock was not unregistered in the latter case.

Keep PTP state as 'uninitialized' on init to distinguish between error
scenarios and to avoid resource release duplication at driver removal.

The consequence of missing ice_ptp_cleanup_pf call is the following call
trace dumped when ice_adapter object is freed (port list is not empty,
as it is required at this stage):

[  T93022] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[  T93022] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 93022 at
ice/ice_adapter.c:67 ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice]
...
[  T93022] RIP: 0010:ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice]
...
[  T93022] Call Trace:
[  T93022]  <TASK>
[  T93022]  ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice
33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c]
[  T93022]  ? __warn.cold+0xb0/0x10e
[  T93022]  ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice
33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c]
[  T93022]  ? report_bug+0xd8/0x150
[  T93022]  ? handle_bug+0xe9/0x110
[  T93022]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70
[  T93022]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[  T93022]  ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice
33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c]
[  T93022]  pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0
[  T93022]  device_release_driver_internal+0x19f/0x200
[  T93022]  driver_detach+0x48/0x90
[  T93022]  bus_remove_driver+0x70/0xf0
[  T93022]  pci_unregister_driver+0x42/0xb0
[  T93022]  ice_module_exit+0x10/0xdb0 [ice
33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c]
...
[  T93022] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
[  T93022] ice: module unloaded

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-68215 to this issue.


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

	Issue introduced in 6.12.11 with commit 2f59743be4d9568cad2d9cf697d1b897975421ed and fixed in 6.12.60 with commit f5eb91f876ebecbcd90f9edcaea98dcb354603b3
	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit e800654e85b5b27966fc6493201f5f8cf658beb6 and fixed in 6.17.10 with commit 765236f2c4fbba7650436b71a0e350500e9ec15f
	Issue introduced in 6.13 with commit e800654e85b5b27966fc6493201f5f8cf658beb6 and fixed in 6.18 with commit 23a5b9b12de9dcd15ebae4f1abc8814ec1c51ab0

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-2025-68215
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/ice/ice_ptp.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/f5eb91f876ebecbcd90f9edcaea98dcb354603b3
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/765236f2c4fbba7650436b71a0e350500e9ec15f
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a5b9b12de9dcd15ebae4f1abc8814ec1c51ab0