CVE-2025-21805 (GCVE-0-2025-21805)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-27 20:00 – Updated: 2026-08-05 11:54
VLAI
Title
RDMA/rtrs: Add missing deinit() call
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/rtrs: Add missing deinit() call A warning is triggered when repeatedly connecting and disconnecting the rnbd: list_add corruption. prev->next should be next (ffff88800b13e480), but was ffff88801ecd1338. (prev=ffff88801ecd1340). WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 36562 at lib/list_debug.c:32 __list_add_valid_or_report+0x7f/0xa0 Workqueue: ib_cm cm_work_handler [ib_cm] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x7f/0xa0 ? __list_add_valid_or_report+0x7f/0xa0 ib_register_event_handler+0x65/0x93 [ib_core] rtrs_srv_ib_dev_init+0x29/0x30 [rtrs_server] rtrs_ib_dev_find_or_add+0x124/0x1d0 [rtrs_core] __alloc_path+0x46c/0x680 [rtrs_server] ? rtrs_rdma_connect+0xa6/0x2d0 [rtrs_server] ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40 ? __mutex_lock+0x312/0xcf0 ? get_or_create_srv+0xad/0x310 [rtrs_server] ? rtrs_rdma_connect+0xa6/0x2d0 [rtrs_server] rtrs_rdma_connect+0x23c/0x2d0 [rtrs_server] ? __lock_release+0x1b1/0x2d0 cma_cm_event_handler+0x4a/0x1a0 [rdma_cm] cma_ib_req_handler+0x3a0/0x7e0 [rdma_cm] cm_process_work+0x28/0x1a0 [ib_cm] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2f/0x50 cm_req_handler+0x618/0xa60 [ib_cm] cm_work_handler+0x71/0x520 [ib_cm] Commit 667db86bcbe8 ("RDMA/rtrs: Register ib event handler") introduced a new element .deinit but never used it at all. Fix it by invoking the `deinit()` to appropriately unregister the IB event handler.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Linux Linux Affected: 667db86bcbe82e789d82c2e8c8c40756ec2e1999 , < 5a79cc9bc961fafe90787f86e8f53ba6fad8d63b (git)
Affected: 667db86bcbe82e789d82c2e8c8c40756ec2e1999 , < 1af2c769032b6b334cd2a867d7d8c7cbbc527b2d (git)
Affected: 667db86bcbe82e789d82c2e8c8c40756ec2e1999 , < 81468c4058a62e84e475433b83b3edc613294f5e (git)
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Linux Linux Affected: 6.12
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.12 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.12.13 , ≤ 6.12.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.13.2 , ≤ 6.13.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.14 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)
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