Description

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

RDMA/core: Don't expose hw_counters outside of init net namespace

Commit 467f432a521a ("RDMA/core: Split port and device counter sysfs
attributes") accidentally almost exposed hw counters to non-init net
namespaces. It didn't expose them fully, as an attempt to read any of
those counters leads to a crash like this one:

[42021.807566] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000028
[42021.814463] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[42021.819549] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[42021.824636] PGD 0 P4D 0
[42021.827145] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
[42021.830598] CPU: 82 PID: 2843922 Comm: switchto-defaul Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S W I XXX
[42021.841697] Hardware name: XXX
[42021.849619] RIP: 0010:hw_stat_device_show+0x1e/0x40 [ib_core]
[42021.855362] Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 f3 0f 1e fa 0f 1f 44 00 00 49 89 d0 4c 8b 5e 20 48 8b 8f b8 04 00 00 48 81 c7 f0 fa ff ff <48> 8b 41 28 48 29 ce 48 83 c6 d0 48 c1 ee 04 69 d6 ab aa aa aa 48
[42021.873931] RSP: 0018:ffff97fe90f03da0 EFLAGS: 00010287
[42021.879108] RAX: ffff9406988a8c60 RBX: ffff940e1072d438 RCX: 0000000000000000
[42021.886169] RDX: ffff94085f1aa000 RSI: ffff93c6cbbdbcb0 RDI: ffff940c7517aef0
[42021.893230] RBP: ffff97fe90f03e70 R08: ffff94085f1aa000 R09: 0000000000000000
[42021.900294] R10: ffff94085f1aa000 R11: ffffffffc0775680 R12: ffffffff87ca2530
[42021.907355] R13: ffff940651602840 R14: ...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22089

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.04% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-22089
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9a5b7f8842a90a5e6eeff37f9f6d814e61ea3529
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5212b99649c5740154f307e9e3d7fee9bf62773
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0cf80f924aecb5b2bebd4f4ad11b2efc676a0b78
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/df45ae2a4f1cdfda00c032839e12092e1f32c05e
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c14d9704f5d77a7c7fa46e2114b64a4f75b64e17
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6682da5d8fd578a5068531d01633c9d2e4c8f12b
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a1ecb30f90856b0be4168ad51b8875148e285c1f

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