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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-21855

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 3/12/2025 6:15:18 AM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

ibmvnic: Don't reference skb after sending to VIOS

Previously, after successfully flushing the xmit buffer to VIOS,
the tx_bytes stat was incremented by the length of the skb.

It is invalid to access the skb memory after sending the buffer to
the VIOS because, at any point after sending, the VIOS can trigger
an interrupt to free this memory. A race between reading skb->len
and freeing the skb is possible (especially during LPM) and will
result in use-after-free:
 ==================================================================
 BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ibmvnic_xmit+0x75c/0x1808 [ibmvnic]
 Read of size 4 at addr c00000024eb48a70 by task hxecom/14495
 <...>
 Call Trace:
 [c000000118f66cf0] [c0000000018cba6c] dump_stack_lvl+0x84/0xe8 (unreliable)
 [c000000118f66d20] [c0000000006f0080] print_report+0x1a8/0x7f0
 [c000000118f66df0] [c0000000006f08f0] kasan_report+0x128/0x1f8
 [c000000118f66f00] [c0000000006f2868] __asan_load4+0xac/0xe0
 [c000000118f66f20] [c0080000046eac84] ibmvnic_xmit+0x75c/0x1808 [ibmvnic]
 [c000000118f67340] [c0000000014be168] dev_hard_start_xmit+0x150/0x358
 <...>
 Freed by task 0:
 kasan_save_stack+0x34/0x68
 kasan_save_track+0x2c/0x50
 kasan_save_free_info+0x64/0x108
 __kasan_mempool_poison_object+0x148/0x2d4
 napi_skb_cache_put+0x5c/0x194
 net_tx_action+0x154/0x5b8
 handle_softirqs+0x20c/0x60c
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x6c/0x88
 <...>
 The buggy address belongs to the object at c00000024eb48a00 which
  belongs to the cache skbuff_head_cache of size 224
==================================================================
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/093b0e5c90592773863f300b908b741622eef597
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/25dddd01dcc8ef3acff964dbb32eeb0d89f098e9
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/501ac6a7e21b82e05207c6b4449812d82820f306
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/abaff2717470e4b5b7c0c3a90e128b211a23da09
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bdf5d13aa05ec314d4385b31ac974d6c7e0997c9