published December 4, 2025
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device
When we do mlx5e_detach_netdev() we eventually disable blocking events
notifier, among those events are IPsec MPV events from IB to core.
So before disabling those blocking events, make sure to also unregister
the devcom device and mark all this device operations as complete,
in order to prevent the other device from using invalid netdev
during future devcom events which could cause the trace below.
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010
PGD 146427067 P4D 146427067 PUD 146488067 PMD 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7735 Comm: devlink Tainted: GW 6.12.0-rc6_for_upstream_min_debug_2024_11_08_00_46 #1
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core]
Code: 00 01 48 83 05 23 32 1e 00 01 41 b8 ed ff ff ff e9 60 ff ff ff 48 83 05 00 32 1e 00 01 eb e3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 10 48 83 05 5f 32 1e 00 01 48 8b 50 40 48 85 d2 74 05 40
RSP: 0018:ffff88811a5c35f8 EFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: ffff888106e8ab80 RBX: ffff888107d7e200 RCX: ffff88810d6f0a00
RDX: ffff88810d6f0a00 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000
RBP: ffff88811a17e620 R08: 0000000000000040 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff88811a5c3618 R11: 0000000de85d51bd R12: ffff88811a17e600
R13: ffff88810d6f0a00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8881034bda80
FS: 00007f27bdf89180(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000010f159005 CR4: 0000000000372eb0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
? __die+0x20/0x60
? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x3e0
? exc_page_fault+0x74/0x130
? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
? mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core]
mlx5e_devcom_event_mpv+0x42/0x60 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_devcom_send_event+0x8c/0x170 [mlx5_core]
blocking_event+0x17b/0x230 [mlx5_core]
notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xa0
blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60
mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_core_mp_event_replay+0x12/0x20 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_ib_bind_slave_port+0x228/0x2c0 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5_ib_stage_init_init+0x664/0x9d0 [mlx5_ib]
? idr_alloc_cyclic+0x50/0xb0
? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x167/0x340
? __kmalloc_noprof+0x1a7/0x430
__mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
mlx5r_probe+0xe9/0x310 [mlx5_ib]
? kernfs_add_one+0x107/0x150
? __mlx5_ib_add+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]
auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3e/0x90
really_probe+0xc5/0x3a0
? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90
__driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160
driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90
__device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100
bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0
__device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0
bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0
device_add+0x62d/0x830
__auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0
? auxiliary_device_init+0x41/0x90
add_adev+0xd1/0x150 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x21c/0x300 [mlx5_core]
esw_mode_change+0x6c/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x21e/0x640 [mlx5_core]
devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x60/0xe0
genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd0/0x120
genl_rcv_msg+0x180/0x2b0
? devlink_get_from_attrs_lock+0x170/0x170
? devlink_nl_eswitch_get_doit+0x290/0x290
? devlink_nl_pre_doit_port_optional+0x50/0x50
? genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0xf0/0xf0
netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100
genl_rcv+0x24/0x40
netlink_unicast+0x1fc/0x2d0
netlink_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x410
__sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60
? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x60
__sys_sendto+0x105/0x160
? __sys_recvmsg+0x4e/0x90
__x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30
do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53
RIP: 0033:0x7f27bc91b13a
Code: bb 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 05 fa 96 2c 00 45 89 c9 4c 63 d1 48 63 ff 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff
---truncated---