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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21806

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 2/27/2025 3:16:03 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

								
							
							
						
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: let net.core.dev_weight always be non-zero

The following problem was encountered during stability test:

(NULL net_device): NAPI poll function process_backlog+0x0/0x530 \
	returned 1, exceeding its budget of 0.
------------[ cut here ]------------
list_add double add: new=ffff88905f746f48, prev=ffff88905f746f48, \
	next=ffff88905f746e40.
WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 5462 at lib/list_debug.c:35 \
	__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
CPU: 18 UID: 0 PID: 5462 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7+
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
Call Trace:
? __warn+0xcd/0x250
? __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
enqueue_to_backlog+0x923/0x1070
netif_rx_internal+0x92/0x2b0
__netif_rx+0x15/0x170
loopback_xmit+0x2ef/0x450
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x103/0x490
__dev_queue_xmit+0xeac/0x1950
ip_finish_output2+0x6cc/0x1620
ip_output+0x161/0x270
ip_push_pending_frames+0x155/0x1a0
raw_sendmsg+0xe13/0x1550
__sys_sendto+0x3bf/0x4e0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e

The reproduction command is as follows:
  sysctl -w net.core.dev_weight=0
  ping 127.0.0.1

This is because when the napi's weight is set to 0, process_backlog() may
return 0 and clear the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit of napi->state, causing this
napi to be re-polled in net_rx_action() until __do_softirq() times out.
Since the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit has been cleared, napi_schedule_rps() can
be retriggered in enqueue_to_backlog(), causing this issue.

Making the napi's weight always non-zero solves this problem.

Triggering this issue requires system-wide admin (setting is
not namespaced).
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1489824e5226a26841c70639ebd2d1aed390764b
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33e2168788f8fb5cb8bd4f36cb1ef37d1d34dada
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5860abbf15eeb61838b5e32e721ba67b0aa84450
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ce38b5a6a49e65bad163162a54cb3f104c40b48
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1f9f79fa2af8e3b45cffdeef66e05833480148a