Critical · published December 30, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/smc: fix potential panic dues to unprotected smc_llc_srv_add_link()
There is a certain chance to trigger the following panic:
PID: 5900 TASK: ffff88c1c8af4100 CPU: 1 COMMAND: "kworker/1:48"
#0 [ffff9456c1cc79a0] machine_kexec at ffffffff870665b7
#1 [ffff9456c1cc79f0] __crash_kexec at ffffffff871b4c7a
#2 [ffff9456c1cc7ab0] crash_kexec at ffffffff871b5b60
#3 [ffff9456c1cc7ac0] oops_end at ffffffff87026ce7
#4 [ffff9456c1cc7ae0] page_fault_oops at ffffffff87075715
#5 [ffff9456c1cc7b58] exc_page_fault at ffffffff87ad0654
#6 [ffff9456c1cc7b80] asm_exc_page_fault at ffffffff87c00b62
[exception RIP: ib_alloc_mr+19]
RIP: ffffffffc0c9cce3 RSP: ffff9456c1cc7c38 RFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000002 RCX: 0000000000000004
RDX: 0000000000000010 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88c1ea281d00 R8: 000000020a34ffff R9: ffff88c1350bbb20
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000010 R14: ffff88c1ab040a50 R15: ffff88c1ea281d00
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff CS: 0010 SS: 0018
#7 [ffff9456c1cc7c60] smc_ib_get_memory_region at ffffffffc0aff6df [smc]
#8 [ffff9456c1cc7c88] smcr_buf_map_link at ffffffffc0b0278c [smc]
#9 [ffff9456c1cc7ce0] __smc_buf_create at ffffffffc0b03586 [smc]
The reason here is that when the server tries to create a second link,
smc_llc_srv_add_link() has no protection and may add a new link to
link group. This breaks the security environment protected by
llc_conf_mutex.