ghsa-m89v-jrp4-5q36
Vulnerability from github
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
benet: fix BUG when creating VFs
benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created:
kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [...] RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70 [...] Call Trace: __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0 be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net] be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net] be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net] be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net] be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net] sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530 vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60 ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0
be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh. Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-38569"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-08-19T17:15:33Z",
"severity": null
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbenet: fix BUG when creating VFs\n\nbenet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created:\n\n kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457!\n Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI\n CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)\n [...]\n RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0\n be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net]\n be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net]\n be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net]\n be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net]\n be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net]\n sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530\n vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60\n ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0\n do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0\n\nbe_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh.\nFix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.",
"id": "GHSA-m89v-jrp4-5q36",
"modified": "2025-08-28T15:30:38Z",
"published": "2025-08-19T18:31:33Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38569"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ddfe8b127ef1149fddccb79db6e6eaba7738e7d"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3697e37e012bbd2bb5a5b467689811ba097b2eff"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46d44a23a3723a89deeb65b13cddb17f8d9f2700"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a40f8af2ba1b9bdf46e2db10e8c9710538fbc63"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975e73b9102d844a3dc3f091ad631c56145c8b4c"
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{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c377ba2be9430d165a98e4b782902ed630bc7546"
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{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5dc09ee5d74277bc47193fe28ce8703e229331b"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4e4e0c4bc4d799d6fa39055acdbc3af066cd13e"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f80b34ebc579216407b128e9d155bfcae875c30f"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": []
}
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