Description

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

net/mlx5e: add missing cpu_to_node to kvzalloc_node in mlx5e_open_xdpredirect_sq

kvzalloc_node is not doing a runtime check on the node argument
(__alloc_pages_node_noprof does have a VM_BUG_ON, but it expands to
nothing on !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM builds), so doing any ethtool/netlink
operation that calls mlx5e_open on a CPU that's larger that MAX_NUMNODES
triggers OOB access and panic (see the trace below).

Add missing cpu_to_node call to convert cpu id to node id.

[ 165.427394] mlx5_core 0000:5c:00.0 beth1: Link up
[ 166.479327] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: 0000000800000010
[ 166.494592] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 166.505995] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
...
[ 166.816958] Call Trace:
[ 166.822380]
[ 166.827034] ? __die_body+0x64/0xb0
[ 166.834774] ? page_fault_oops+0x2cd/0x3f0
[ 166.843862] ? exc_page_fault+0x63/0x130
[ 166.852564] ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
[ 166.861843] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
[ 166.871897] ? get_partial_node+0x1c/0x320
[ 166.880983] ? deactivate_slab+0x269/0x2b0
[ 166.890069] ___slab_alloc+0x521/0xa90
[ 166.898389] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
[ 166.908442] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x216/0x3f0
[ 166.918302] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
[ 166.928354] __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x43/0xd0
[ 166.938021] mlx5e_open_channels+0x5e2/0xc00
[ 166.947496] mlx5e_open_locked+0x3e/0xf0
[ 166.95620...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21717

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 3.54% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-27 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21717
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a275db45b4161d01716559dd7557db9ea0450952
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/979284535aaf12a287a2f43d9d5dfcbdc1dc4cac

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