CVE-2025-39857
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
19/09/2025
Last modified:
19/09/2025
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net/smc: fix one NULL pointer dereference in smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync()<br />
<br />
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002ec<br />
PGD 0 P4D 0<br />
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI<br />
CPU: 28 UID: 0 PID: 343 Comm: kworker/28:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G OE 6.17.0-rc2+ #9 NONE<br />
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE<br />
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014<br />
Workqueue: smc_hs_wq smc_listen_work [smc]<br />
RIP: 0010:smc_ib_is_sg_need_sync+0x9e/0xd0 [smc]<br />
...<br />
Call Trace:<br />
<br />
smcr_buf_map_link+0x211/0x2a0 [smc]<br />
__smc_buf_create+0x522/0x970 [smc]<br />
smc_buf_create+0x3a/0x110 [smc]<br />
smc_find_rdma_v2_device_serv+0x18f/0x240 [smc]<br />
? smc_vlan_by_tcpsk+0x7e/0xe0 [smc]<br />
smc_listen_find_device+0x1dd/0x2b0 [smc]<br />
smc_listen_work+0x30f/0x580 [smc]<br />
process_one_work+0x18c/0x340<br />
worker_thread+0x242/0x360<br />
kthread+0xe7/0x220<br />
ret_from_fork+0x13a/0x160<br />
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30<br />
<br />
<br />
If the software RoCE device is used, ibdev->dma_device is a null pointer.<br />
As a result, the problem occurs. Null pointer detection is added to<br />
prevent problems.
Impact
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cdf1fd8fc59d44a48c694324611136910301ef9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/34f17cbe027050b8d5316ea1b6f9bd7c378e92de
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ba1e9421cf1a8369d25c3832439702a015d6b5f9
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/eb929910bd4b4165920fa06a87b22cc6cae92e0e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f18d9b3abf9c6587372cc702f963a7592277ed56