CVE-2025-38372 (GCVE-0-2025-38372)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-25 12:53
Modified
2026-08-05 12:01
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling __xa_store() and __xa_erase() were used without holding the proper lock, which led to a lockdep warning due to unsafe RCU usage. This patch replaces them with xa_store() and xa_erase(), which perform the necessary locking internally. ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCPU usage 6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Not tainted ----------------------------- ./include/linux/xarray.h:1211 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage! other info that might help us debug this: rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1 3 locks held by kworker/u136:0/219: at: process_one_work+0xbe4/0x15f0 process_one_work+0x75c/0x15f0 pagefault_mr+0x9a5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib] stack backtrace: CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 219 Comm: kworker/u136:0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 Workqueue: mlx5_ib_page_fault mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action [mlx5_ib] Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0xc0 lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e6/0x260 xas_create+0xb8a/0xee0 xas_store+0x73/0x14c0 __xa_store+0x13c/0x220 ? xa_store_range+0x390/0x390 ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0 pagefault_mr+0xcb5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib] ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30 mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action+0x3be/0x2620 [mlx5_ib] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400 ? mlx5_ib_invalidate_range+0xcb0/0xcb0 [mlx5_ib] process_one_work+0x7db/0x15f0 ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xda0/0xda0 ? assign_work+0x168/0x240 worker_thread+0x57d/0xcd0 ? rescuer_thread+0xc40/0xc40 kthread+0x3b3/0x800 ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0 ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680 ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270 ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0 ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x284/0x9e0 ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400 ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0 ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70 ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0 ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20
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Linux Linux Version: 7cc8f681f6d4ae4478ae0f60485fc768f2b450da
Version: d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773
Version: d3d930411ce390e532470194296658a960887773
Version: edfb65dbb9ffd3102f3ff4dd21316158e56f1976
Version: 6.12.13   ≤
Version: 6.13.2   ≤
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          "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nRDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling\n\n__xa_store() and __xa_erase() were used without holding the proper lock,\nwhich led to a lockdep warning due to unsafe RCU usage.  This patch\nreplaces them with xa_store() and xa_erase(), which perform the necessary\nlocking internally.\n\n  =============================\n  WARNING: suspicious RCPU usage\n  6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Not tainted\n  -----------------------------\n  ./include/linux/xarray.h:1211 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!\n\n  other info that might help us debug this:\n\n  rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1\n  3 locks held by kworker/u136:0/219:\n      at: process_one_work+0xbe4/0x15f0\n      process_one_work+0x75c/0x15f0\n      pagefault_mr+0x9a5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]\n\n  stack backtrace:\n  CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 219 Comm: kworker/u136:0 Not tainted\n  6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1\n  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS\n  rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\n  Workqueue: mlx5_ib_page_fault mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action [mlx5_ib]\n  Call Trace:\n   dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0xc0\n   lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e6/0x260\n   xas_create+0xb8a/0xee0\n   xas_store+0x73/0x14c0\n   __xa_store+0x13c/0x220\n   ? xa_store_range+0x390/0x390\n   ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0\n   pagefault_mr+0xcb5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]\n   ? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30\n   mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action+0x3be/0x2620 [mlx5_ib]\n   ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400\n   ? mlx5_ib_invalidate_range+0xcb0/0xcb0 [mlx5_ib]\n   process_one_work+0x7db/0x15f0\n   ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xda0/0xda0\n   ? assign_work+0x168/0x240\n   worker_thread+0x57d/0xcd0\n   ? rescuer_thread+0xc40/0xc40\n   kthread+0x3b3/0x800\n   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n   ? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680\n   ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270\n   ? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0\n   ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x284/0x9e0\n   ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400\n   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n   ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70\n   ? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0\n   ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20"
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              "value": "AV:L - The vulnerable code is reached from local userspace through the RDMA verbs character device `/dev/infiniband/uverbsN` (implicit ODP MR registration plus the `UVERBS_METHOD_ADVISE_MR` prefetch ioctl), which drives `pagefault_mr()` \u2192 `pagefault_implicit_mr()` \u2192 `implicit_get_child_mr()`. While a connected RDMA peer can also drive the same path via hardware page-fault events, the reliable and fully attacker-controlled trigger requires local access to the verbs device.\nAC:L - The attacker controls both sides of the race: two threads each registering their own implicit ODP MR obtain distinct `imr-\u003eimplicit_children` locks, so their concurrent unlocked `__xa_store()`/`__xa_erase()` operations on the shared device-wide `dev-\u003eodp_mkeys` xarray collide with no common serialization, and they additionally race the properly-locked `find_odp_mkey()`/`xa_erase()` users at will.\nPR:L - No capability check exists anywhere on the path \u2014 `mlx5_ib_advise_mr()` and `mlx5_ib_reg_user_mr()` require only an open uverbs FD and a PD handle, and distro rdma-core udev rules expose `/dev/infiniband/uverbs*` world-accessible so unprivileged applications (MPI, GPUDirect) can use RDMA. A plain unprivileged local user therefore suffices.\nUI:N - The attacker performs all steps itself \u2014 registering implicit ODP MRs and issuing concurrent prefetch/page-fault operations \u2014 with no action required from any other user or victim process.\nS:U - The corruption is confined to kernel memory managed by the mlx5_ib driver within the same security authority; there is no VM, IOMMU, or sandbox boundary crossed.\nC:H - Unsynchronized xarray mutation corrupts the radix-tree structure and leaks stale `struct mlx5_ib_mkey` pointers, which `find_odp_mkey()`/`get_prefetchable_mr()` later dereference and hand to `pagefault_mr()` on freed memory, yielding a use-after-free read primitive over attacker-groomable heap contents.\nI:H - A lost `xa_erase()` defeats the `mlx5r_deref_wait_odp_mkey()` guard in `__mlx5_ib_dereg_mr()`, so freed MR objects are still written through (`refcount_inc(\u0026mmkey-\u003eusecount)`, XLT updates), and racing `xas_store()`/`xas_create()` can write into concurrently freed `xa_node` memory \u2014 both give attacker-influenced write primitives suitable for control-flow hijacking.\nA:H - The race produces radix-tree corruption, double-free/use-after-free of xarray nodes and MR objects, and the `WARN_ON(!xa_empty(\u0026dev-\u003eodp_mkeys))` at device teardown \u2014 any of which oops or panic the kernel, and the attacker can repeat the trigger indefinitely."
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