cve/published/2025/CVE-2025-21973.mbox

From bippy-7c5fe7eed585 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: <linux-cve-announce@vger.kernel.org>
Reply-to: <cve@kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-21973: eth: bnxt: fix kernel panic in the bnxt_get_queue_stats{rx | tx}

Description
===========

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

eth: bnxt: fix kernel panic in the bnxt_get_queue_stats{rx | tx}

When qstats-get operation is executed, callbacks of netdev_stats_ops
are called. The bnxt_get_queue_stats{rx | tx} collect per-queue stats
from sw_stats in the rings.
But {rx | tx | cp}_ring are allocated when the interface is up.
So, these rings are not allocated when the interface is down.

The qstats-get is allowed even if the interface is down. However,
the bnxt_get_queue_stats{rx | tx}() accesses cp_ring and tx_ring
without null check.
So, it needs to avoid accessing rings if the interface is down.

Reproducer:
 ip link set $interface down
 ./cli.py --spec netdev.yaml --dump qstats-get
OR
 ip link set $interface down
 python ./stats.py

Splat looks like:
 BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000
 #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
 #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
 PGD 1680fa067 P4D 1680fa067 PUD 16be3b067 PMD 0
 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
 CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1495 Comm: python3 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4+ #32 5cd0f999d5a15c574ac72b3e4b907341
 Hardware name: ASUS System Product Name/PRIME Z690-P D4, BIOS 0603 11/01/2021
 RIP: 0010:bnxt_get_queue_stats_rx+0xf/0x70 [bnxt_en]
 Code: c6 87 b5 18 00 00 02 eb a2 66 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 44 01
 RSP: 0018:ffffabef43cdb7e0 EFLAGS: 00010282
 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffffc04c8710 RCX: 0000000000000000
 RDX: ffffabef43cdb858 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff8d504e850000
 RBP: ffff8d506c9f9c00 R08: 0000000000000004 R09: ffff8d506bcd901c
 R10: 0000000000000015 R11: ffff8d506bcd9000 R12: 0000000000000000
 R13: ffffabef43cdb8c0 R14: ffff8d504e850000 R15: 0000000000000000
 FS:  00007f2c5462b080(0000) GS:ffff8d575f600000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
 CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
 CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000167fd0000 CR4: 00000000007506f0
 PKRU: 55555554
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  ? __die+0x20/0x70
  ? page_fault_oops+0x15a/0x460
  ? sched_balance_find_src_group+0x58d/0xd10
  ? exc_page_fault+0x6e/0x180
  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30
  ? bnxt_get_queue_stats_rx+0xf/0x70 [bnxt_en cdd546fd48563c280cfd30e9647efa420db07bf1]
  netdev_nl_stats_by_netdev+0x2b1/0x4e0
  ? xas_load+0x9/0xb0
  ? xas_find+0x183/0x1d0
  ? xa_find+0x8b/0xe0
  netdev_nl_qstats_get_dumpit+0xbf/0x1e0
  genl_dumpit+0x31/0x90
  netlink_dump+0x1a8/0x360

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-21973 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit af7b3b4adda592cb49e202f3617454d5dda4c5b5 and fixed in 6.12.20 with commit f059a0fd733078c3832fd0f3a3037aa5975d3d36
	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit af7b3b4adda592cb49e202f3617454d5dda4c5b5 and fixed in 6.13.8 with commit adb830085f0fc3a09a0fc8b64fed2e7c8d244665
	Issue introduced in 6.9 with commit af7b3b4adda592cb49e202f3617454d5dda4c5b5 and fixed in 6.14 with commit f09af5fdfbd9b0fcee73aab1116904c53b199e97

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-21973
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f059a0fd733078c3832fd0f3a3037aa5975d3d36
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/adb830085f0fc3a09a0fc8b64fed2e7c8d244665
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f09af5fdfbd9b0fcee73aab1116904c53b199e97