FKIE_CVE-2025-40164
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-11-12 11:15 - Updated: 2026-10-19 21:10
Severity
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
usbnet: Fix using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code warnings
Syzbot reported the following warning:
BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: dhcpcd/2879
caller is usbnet_skb_return+0x74/0x490 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:331
CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 2879 Comm: dhcpcd Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00098-g615dca38c2ea #0 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:94 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x16c/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:120
check_preemption_disabled+0xd0/0xe0 lib/smp_processor_id.c:49
usbnet_skb_return+0x74/0x490 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:331
usbnet_resume_rx+0x4b/0x170 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:708
usbnet_change_mtu+0x1be/0x220 drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c:417
__dev_set_mtu net/core/dev.c:9443 [inline]
netif_set_mtu_ext+0x369/0x5c0 net/core/dev.c:9496
netif_set_mtu+0xb0/0x160 net/core/dev.c:9520
dev_set_mtu+0xae/0x170 net/core/dev_api.c:247
dev_ifsioc+0xa31/0x18d0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:572
dev_ioctl+0x223/0x10e0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:821
sock_do_ioctl+0x19d/0x280 net/socket.c:1204
sock_ioctl+0x42f/0x6a0 net/socket.c:1311
vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
__do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]
__se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]
__x64_sys_ioctl+0x190/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:892
do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x260 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
For historical and portability reasons, the netif_rx() is usually
run in the softirq or interrupt context, this commit therefore add
local_bh_disable/enable() protection in the usbnet_resume_rx().
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.7 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 4.7 | |
| linux | linux_kernel | 6.18 |
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