CVE-2025-71285 (GCVE-0-2025-71285)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-05-06 11:32
Modified
2026-10-30 12:23
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Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: qrtr: Drop the MHI auto_queue feature for IPCR DL channels
MHI stack offers the 'auto_queue' feature, which allows the MHI stack to
auto queue the buffers for the RX path (DL channel). Though this feature
simplifies the client driver design, it introduces race between the client
drivers and the MHI stack. For instance, with auto_queue, the 'dl_callback'
for the DL channel may get called before the client driver is fully probed.
This means, by the time the dl_callback gets called, the client driver's
structures might not be initialized, leading to NULL ptr dereference.
Currently, the drivers have to workaround this issue by initializing the
internal structures before calling mhi_prepare_for_transfer_autoqueue().
But even so, there is a chance that the client driver's internal code path
may call the MHI queue APIs before mhi_prepare_for_transfer_autoqueue() is
called, leading to similar NULL ptr dereference. This issue has been
reported on the Qcom X1E80100 CRD machines affecting boot.
So to properly fix all these races, drop the MHI 'auto_queue' feature
altogether and let the client driver (QRTR) manage the RX buffers manually.
In the QRTR driver, queue the RX buffers based on the ring length during
probe and recycle the buffers in 'dl_callback' once they are consumed. This
also warrants removing the setting of 'auto_queue' flag from controller
drivers.
Currently, this 'auto_queue' feature is only enabled for IPCR DL channel.
So only the QRTR client driver requires the modification.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: 227fee5fc99eeb74d43bf68832f6d59d30ac07d8 Version: c682fb70a7dfc25b848a4ff3a385b0471b470606 Version: 5.15.63 ≤ |
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