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CVE-2025-71233

PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the work completes. The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands: # cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test # for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088 ... Call Trace: configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190 pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110 process_one_work+0x18f/0x350 worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0 Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require the delayed work handler. [mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Linux Linux

Default version status: unaffected

  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < fa9fb38f5fe9c80094c2138354d45cdc8d094d69affected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < 5f609b3bffd4207cf9f2c9b41e1978457a5a1ea9affected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < 8cb905eca73944089a0db01443c7628a9e87012daffected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < d9af3cf58bb4c8d6dea4166011c780756b1138b5affected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < 24a253c3aa6d9a2cde46158ce9782e023bfbf32daffected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < 73cee890adafa2c219bb865356e08e7f82423fe5affected
  • e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 to < 7c5c7d06bd1f86d2c3ebe62be903a4ba42db4d2caffected

Linux Linux

Default version status: affected

  • 5.12affected
  • 0 to < 5.12unaffected
  • 5.15.201 to ≤ 5.15.*unaffected
  • 6.1.164 to ≤ 6.1.*unaffected
  • 6.6.127 to ≤ 6.6.*unaffected
  • 6.12.72 to ≤ 6.12.*unaffected
  • 6.18.11 to ≤ 6.18.*unaffected
  • 6.19.1 to ≤ 6.19.*unaffected
  • 7.0 to ≤ *unaffected

References