CVE: CVE-2025-38161
Published: 2025-07-03
Description: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

RDMA/mlx5: Fix error flow upon firmware failure for RQ destruction

Upon RQ destruction if the firmware command fails which is the
last resource to be destroyed some SW resources were already cleaned
regardless of the failure.

Now properly rollback the object to its original state upon such failure.

In order to avoid a use-after free in case someone tries to destroy the
object again, which results in the following kernel trace:
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 37589 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x148
Modules linked in: rdma_ucm(OE) rdma_cm(OE) iw_cm(OE) ib_ipoib(OE) ib_cm(OE) ib_umad(OE) mlx5_ib(OE) rfkill mlx5_core(OE) mlxdevm(OE) ib_uverbs(OE) ib_core(OE) psample mlxfw(OE) mlx_compat(OE) macsec tls pci_hyperv_intf sunrpc vfat fat virtio_net net_failover failover fuse loop nfnetlink vsock_loopback vmw_vsock_virtio_transport_common vmw_vsock_vmci_transport vmw_vmci vsock xfs crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce virtio_console virtio_gpu virtio_blk virtio_dma_buf virtio_mmio dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod xpmem(OE)
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 37589 Comm: python3 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G           OE     -------  ---  6.12.0-54.el10.aarch64 #1
Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015
pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--)
pc : refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x148
lr : refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x148
sp : ffff80008b81b7e0
x29: ffff80008b81b7e0 x28: ffff000133d51600 x27: [PII_REDACTED]
x26: [PII_REDACTED] x25: 00000000ffffffea x24: ffff00010ae80f00
x23: ffff00010ae80f80 x22: ffff0000c66e5d08 x21: [PII_REDACTED]
x20: ffff0000c66e0000 x19: ffff00010ae80340 x18: [PII_REDACTED]
x17: [PII_REDACTED] x16: [PII_REDACTED] x15: ffff80008b81b37f
x14: [PII_REDACTED] x13: 2e656572662d7265 x12: ffff80008283ef78
x11: ffff80008257efd0 x10: ffff80008283efd0 x9 : ffff80008021ed90
x8 : [PII_REDACTED] x7 :[PII_REDACTED]0bffe8 x6 : c0000000ffff7fff
x5 : ffff0001fb8e3408 x4 : [PII_REDACTED] x3 : ffff[PII_REDACTED]00
x2 : [PII_REDACTED] x1 : [PII_REDACTED] x0 : ffff000133d51600
Call trace:
 refcount_warn_saturate+0xf4/0x148
 mlx5_core_put_rsc+0x88/0xa0 [mlx5_ib]
 mlx5_core_destroy_rq_tracked+0x64/0x98 [mlx5_ib]
 mlx5_ib_destroy_wq+0x34/0x80 [mlx5_ib]
 ib_destroy_wq_user+0x30/0xc0 [ib_core]
 uverbs_free_wq+0x28/0x58 [ib_uverbs]
 destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x34/0x78 [ib_uverbs]
 uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x48/0x240 [ib_uverbs]
 __uverbs_cleanup_ufile+0xd4/0x1a8 [ib_uverbs]
 uverbs_destroy_ufile_hw+0x48/0x120 [ib_uverbs]
 ib_uverbs_close+0x2c/0x100 [ib_uverbs]
 __fput+0xd8/0x2f0
 __fput_sync+0x50/0x70
 __arm64_sys_close+0x40/0x90
 invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x74/0xd0
 do_el0_svc+0x48/0xe8
 el0_svc+0x44/0x1d0
 el0t_64_sync_handler+0x120/0x130
 el0t_64_sync+0x1a4/0x1a8
CVSS Score: 5.5 (MEDIUM)
CWE: CWE-191
References: https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0a7790cbba654e925243571cf2f24d61603d3ed3; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/26d2f662d3a6655a82fd8a287e8b1ce471567f36; https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50ac361ff8914133e3cf6ef184bac90c22cb8d79