Critical · published December 30, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5e: xsk: Fix invalid buffer access for legacy rq
The below crash can be encountered when using xdpsock in rx mode for
legacy rq: the buffer gets released in the XDP_REDIRECT path, and then
once again in the driver. This fix sets the flag to avoid releasing on
the driver side.
XSK handling of buffers for legacy rq was relying on the caller to set
the skip release flag. But the referenced fix started using fragment
counts for pages instead of the skip flag.
Crash log:
general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xffff8881217e3a: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 0 PID: 14 Comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 6.5.0-rc1+ #31
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:bpf_prog_03b13f331978c78c+0xf/0x28
Code: ...
RSP: 0018:ffff88810082fc98 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888138404901 RCX: c0ffffc900027cbc
RDX: ffffffffa000b514 RSI: 00ffff8881217e32 RDI: ffff888138404901
RBP: ffff88810082fc98 R08: 0000000000091100 R09: 0000000000000006
R10: 0000000000000800 R11: 0000000000000800 R12: ffffc9000027a000
R13: ffff8881217e2dc0 R14: ffff8881217e2910 R15: ffff8881217e2f00
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88852c800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000564cb2e2cde0 CR3: 000000010e603004 CR4: 0000000000370eb0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? die_addr+0x32/0x80
? exc_general_protection+0x192/0x390
? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30
? 0xffffffffa000b514
? bpf_prog_03b13f331978c78c+0xf/0x28
mlx5e_xdp_handle+0x48/0x670 [mlx5_core]
? dev_gro_receive+0x3b5/0x6e0
mlx5e_xsk_skb_from_cqe_linear+0x6e/0x90 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_handle_rx_cqe+0x55/0x100 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_poll_rx_cq+0x87/0x6e0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_napi_poll+0x45e/0x6b0 [mlx5_core]
__napi_poll+0x25/0x1a0
net_rx_action+0x28a/0x300
__do_softirq+0xcd/0x279
? sort_range+0x20/0x20
run_ksoftirqd+0x1a/0x20
smpboot_thread_fn+0xa2/0x130
kthread+0xc9/0xf0
? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
</TASK>
Modules linked in: mlx5_ib mlx5_core rpcrdma rdma_ucm ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi ib_umad rdma_cm ib_ipoib iw_cm ib_cm ib_uverbs ib_core xt_conntrack xt_MASQUERADE nf_conntrack_netlink nfnetlink xt_addrtype iptable_nat nf_nat br_netfilter overlay zram zsmalloc fuse [last unloaded: mlx5_core]
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