Description

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

RDMA/mlx5: Fix page_size variable overflow

Change all variables storing mlx5_umem_mkc_find_best_pgsz() result to
unsigned long to support values larger than 31 and avoid overflow.

For example: If we try to register 4GB of memory that is contiguous in
physical memory, the driver will optimize the page_size and try to use
an mkey with 4GB entity size. The 'unsigned int' page_size variable will
overflow to '0' and we'll hit the WARN_ON() in alloc_cacheable_mr().

WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1203 at drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mr.c:1124 alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib]
Modules linked in: mlx5_ib mlx5_core bonding ip6_gre ip6_tunnel tunnel6 ip_gre gre rdma_rxe rdma_ucm ib_uverbs ib_ipoib ib_umad rpcrdma ib_iser libiscsi scsi_transport_iscsi rdma_cm iw_cm ib_cm fuse ib_core [last unloaded: mlx5_core]
CPU: 2 UID: 70878 PID: 1203 Comm: rdma_resource_l Tainted: G W 6.14.0-rc4-dirty #43
Tainted: [W]=WARN
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:alloc_cacheable_mr+0x22/0x580 [mlx5_ib]
Code: 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 00 00 55 48 89 e5 41 57 41 56 41 55 41 54 41 52 53 48 83 ec 30 f6 46 28 04 4c 8b 77 08 75 21 <0f> 0b 49 c7 c2 ea ff ff ff 48 8d 65 d0 4c 89 d0 5b 41 5a 41 5c 41
RSP: 0018:ffffc900006ffac8 EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000004c0d0d0 RBX: ffff888217a22000 RCX: 0000000000100001
RDX: 00007fb7ac480000 RSI: fff...

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-22091

Affected Products

Vendor: Linux

Product: Linux, Linux

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.91% (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-2025-22091
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/01fd737776ca0f17a96d83cd7f0840ce130b9a02
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e0c09f639ca0e102f250df8787740c2013e9d1b3
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/05b215d5e219c0228b9c7082ba9bcf176c576646
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f0c2427412b43cdf1b7b0944749ea17ddb97d5a5

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