CVE: CVE-2025-38246
Published: 2025-07-09
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

bnxt: properly flush XDP redirect lists

We encountered following crash when testing a XDP_REDIRECT feature
in production:

[56251.579676] list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ffff93120dd40f30), but was ffffb301ef3a6740. (next=ffff93120dd
40f30).
[56251.601413] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[56251.611357] kernel BUG at lib/list_debug.c:29!
[56251.621082] Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
[56251.632073] CPU: 111 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/111 Kdump: loaded Tainted: P           O       6.12.33-cloudflare-2025.6.
3 #1
[56251.653155] Tainted: [P]=PROPRIETARY_MODULE, [O]=OOT_MODULE
[56251.663877] Hardware name: MiTAC GC68B-B8032-G11P6-GPU/S8032GM-HE-CFR, BIOS V7.020.B10-sig 01/22/2025
[56251.682626] RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0x4b/0xa0
[56251.693203] Code: 0e 48 c7 c7 68 e7 d9 97 e8 42 16 fe ff 0f 0b 48 8b 52 08 48 39 c2 74 14 48 89 f1 48 c7 c7 90 e7 d9 97 48
 89 c6 e8 25 16 fe ff <0f> 0b 4c 8b 02 49 39 f0 74 14 48 89 d1 48 c7 c7 e8 e7 d9 97 4c 89
[56251.725811] RSP: 0018:ffff93120dd40b80 EFLAGS: 00010246
[56251.736094] RAX: [PII_REDACTED] RBX: ffffb301e6bba9d8 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
[56251.748260] RDX: [PII_REDACTED] RSI: ffff9149afda0b80 RDI: ffff9149afda0b80
[56251.760349] RBP: ffff9131e49c8000 R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09: ffff93120dd40a18
[56251.772382] R10: ffff9159cf2ce1a8 R11: [PII_REDACTED] R12: ffff911a80850000
[56251.784364] R13: ffff93120fbc7000 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: ffff9139e7510e40
[56251.796278] FS:  [PII_REDACTED](0000) GS:ffff9149afd80000(0000) knlGS:[PII_REDACTED]
[56251.809133] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: [PII_REDACTED]
[56251.819561] CR2: 00007f5e85e6f300 CR3: 00000038b85e2006 CR4:[PII_REDACTED]770ef0
[56251.831365] PKRU: 55555554
[56251.838653] Call Trace:
[56251.845560]  <IRQ>
[56251.851943]  cpu_map_enqueue.cold+0x5/0xa
[56251.860243]  xdp_do_redirect+0x2d9/0x480
[56251.868388]  bnxt_rx_xdp+0x1d8/0x4c0 [bnxt_en]
[56251.877028]  bnxt_rx_pkt+0x5f7/0x19b0 [bnxt_en]
[56251.885665]  ? cpu_max_write+0x1e/0x100
[56251.893510]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.902276]  __bnxt_poll_work+0x190/0x340 [bnxt_en]
[56251.911058]  bnxt_poll+0xab/0x1b0 [bnxt_en]
[56251.919041]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.927568]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.935958]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.944250]  __napi_poll+0x2b/0x160
[56251.951155]  bpf_trampoline_[PII_REDACTED]+0x79/0x123
[56251.959262]  __napi_poll+0x5/0x160
[56251.966037]  net_rx_action+0x3d2/0x880
[56251.973133]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.981265]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56251.989262]  ? __hrtimer_run_queues+0x162/0x2a0
[56251.996967]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56252.004875]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[56252.012673]  ? bnxt_msix+0x62/0x70 [bnxt_en]
[56252.019903]  handle_softirqs+0xcf/0x270
[56252.026650]  irq_exit_rcu+0x67/0x90
[56252.032933]  common_interrupt+0x85/0xa0
[56252.039498]  </IRQ>
[56252.044246]  <TASK>
[56252.048935]  asm_common_interrupt+0x26/0x40
[56252.055727] RIP: 0010:cpuidle_enter_state+0xb8/0x420
[56252.063305] Code: dc 01 00 00 e8 f9 79 3b ff e8 64 f7 ff ff 49 89 c5 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 ff e8 a5 32 3a ff 45 84 ff 0f 85 ae
 01 00 00 fb 45 85 f6 <0f> 88 88 01 00 00 48 8b 04 24 49 63 ce 4c 89 ea 48 6b f1 68 48 29
[56252.088911] RSP: 0018:ffff93120c97fe98 EFLAGS: 00000202
[56252.096912] RAX: ffff9149afd80000 RBX: ffff9141d3a72800 RCX: [PII_REDACTED]
[56252.106844] RDX:[PII_REDACTED]6c6b98 RSI: ffffffe36db3fdc7 RDI: [PII_REDACTED]
[56252.116733] RBP: [PII_REDACTED] R08: [PII_REDACTED] R09:[PII_REDACTED]00004e
[56252.126652] R10: ffff9149afdb30c4 R11: 071c71c71c71c71c R12: ffffffff985ff860
[56252.136637] R13:[PII_REDACTED]6c6b98 R14: [PII_REDACTED] R15: [PII_REDACTED]
[56252.146667]  ? cpuidle_enter_state+0xab/0x420
[56252.153909]  cpuidle_enter+0x2d/0x40
[56252.160360]  do_idle+0x176/0x1c0
[56252.166456
---truncated---
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/02bf488d56df9db4f5147280b65d9011e1ab88d2; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/16254aa985d14dee050564c4a3936f3dc096e1f7; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9caca6ac0e26cd20efd490d8b3b2ffb1c7c00f6f