Description

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

net: mana: cleanup mana struct after debugfs_remove()

When on a MANA VM hibernation is triggered, as part of hibernate_snapshot(),
mana_gd_suspend() and mana_gd_resume() are called. If during this
mana_gd_resume(), a failure occurs with HWC creation, mana_port_debugfs
pointer does not get reinitialized and ends up pointing to older,
cleaned-up dentry.
Further in the hibernation path, as part of power_down(), mana_gd_shutdown()
is triggered. This call, unaware of the failures in resume, tries to cleanup
the already cleaned up mana_port_debugfs value and hits the following bug:

[ 191.359296] mana 7870:00:00.0: Shutdown was called
[ 191.359918] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000098
[ 191.360584] #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
[ 191.361125] #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
[ 191.361727] PGD 1080ea067 P4D 0
[ 191.362172] Oops: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
[ 191.362606] CPU: 11 UID: 0 PID: 1674 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5+ #2
[ 191.363292] Hardware name: Microsoft Corporation Virtual Machine/Virtual Machine, BIOS Hyper-V UEFI Release v4.1 11/21/2024
[ 191.364124] RIP: 0010:down_write+0x19/0x50
[ 191.364537] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb e8 de cd ff ff 31 c0 ba 01 00 00 00 48 0f b1 13 75 16 65 48 8b 05 88 24 4c 6a 48 89 43 08 48 8b 5d
[ 191.365867] RSP: 0000:ff45fbe0c1c037b8 EFLAGS...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-21953

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux, Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.01% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 1.76% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-17 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-21953
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1466112fb6e819261272ad75e7db750a43b78bf
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e64bb2ae7d9f2b3a8259d4d6b86ed1984d5460a

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