CVE-2025-68779
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
13/01/2026
Last modified:
14/01/2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br />
<br />
net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice<br />
<br />
PSP is unregistered twice in:<br />
_mlx5e_remove -> mlx5e_psp_unregister<br />
mlx5e_nic_cleanup -> mlx5e_psp_unregister<br />
<br />
This leads to a refcount underflow in some conditions:<br />
------------[ cut here ]------------<br />
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.<br />
WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1694 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0<br />
[...]<br />
mlx5e_psp_unregister+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core]<br />
mlx5e_nic_cleanup+0x26/0x90 [mlx5_core]<br />
mlx5e_remove+0xe6/0x1f0 [mlx5_core]<br />
auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30<br />
device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0<br />
bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130<br />
device_del+0x159/0x3c0<br />
mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2a0 [mlx5_core]<br />
[...]<br />
<br />
Do not directly remove psp from the _mlx5e_remove path, the PSP cleanup<br />
happens as part of profile cleanup.



