GHSA-3W57-3P47-W8CH
Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-03-27 15:31 – Updated: 2025-11-24 12:30
VLAI
Details
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values
Sabrina reported the following splat:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0
Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e
RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6
RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c
R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168
R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270
xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0
xfrm_init+0x38/0x50
ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350
ip_init+0xf/0x20
inet_init+0x406/0x590
do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0
do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280
kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490
kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
irq event stamp: 584330
hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [<ffffffff8168bf87>] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0
hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [<ffffffff8168bf6c>] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0
softirqs last enabled at (583242): [<ffffffff833ee96d>] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470
softirqs last disabled at (583754): [<ffffffff8317c8cd>] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0
on kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) is smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.
Such built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache so that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering the splat.
Note that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned revert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP and GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb() to select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
{
"affected": [],
"aliases": [
"CVE-2025-21868"
],
"database_specific": {
"cwe_ids": [],
"github_reviewed": false,
"github_reviewed_at": null,
"nvd_published_at": "2025-03-27T14:15:47Z",
"severity": "MODERATE"
},
"details": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values\n\nSabrina reported the following splat:\n\n WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Modules linked in:\n CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996\n Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014\n RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0\n Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe \u003c0f\u003e 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48\n RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293\n RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e\n RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6\n RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c\n R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168\n R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007\n FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\n CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\n CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0\n DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\n DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270\n xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0\n xfrm_init+0x38/0x50\n ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350\n ip_init+0xf/0x20\n inet_init+0x406/0x590\n do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0\n do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280\n kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490\n kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0\n ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n \u003c/TASK\u003e\n irq event stamp: 584330\n hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [\u003cffffffff8168bf87\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0\n hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [\u003cffffffff8168bf6c\u003e] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0\n softirqs last enabled at (583242): [\u003cffffffff833ee96d\u003e] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470\n softirqs last disabled at (583754): [\u003cffffffff8317c8cd\u003e] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0\n\non kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)\nis smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.\n\nSuch built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache\nso that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering\nthe splat.\n\nNote that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned\nrevert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP\nand GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb()\nto select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache.",
"id": "GHSA-3w57-3p47-w8ch",
"modified": "2025-11-24T12:30:27Z",
"published": "2025-03-27T15:31:08Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "ADVISORY",
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21868"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/14ad6ed30a10afbe91b0749d6378285f4225d482"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/648e440c98e260dec835e48a5d7a9993477b1f9d"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed0ca7d2127c63991cfaf1932b827e3f4f8ee480"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ed8a77fee4618facd2a539cad7b7366697b5a575"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.4.0",
"severity": [
{
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"type": "CVSS_V3"
}
]
}
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