CVE - CVE-2025-21751

CVE-ID
CVE-2025-21751	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: HWS, change error flow on matcher disconnect Currently, when firmware failure occurs during matcher disconnect flow, the error flow of the function reconnects the matcher back and returns an error, which continues running the calling function and eventually frees the matcher that is being disconnected. This leads to a case where we have a freed matcher on the matchers list, which in turn leads to use-after-free and eventual crash. This patch fixes that by not trying to reconnect the matcher back when some FW command fails during disconnect. Note that we're dealing here with FW error. We can't overcome this problem. This might lead to bad steering state (e.g. wrong connection between matchers), and will also lead to resource leakage, as it is the case with any other error handling during resource destruction. However, the goal here is to allow the driver to continue and not crash the machine with use-after-free error.
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MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce840c7a659aa53a31ef49f0271b4fd0dc10296 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1ce840c7a659aa53a31ef49f0271b4fd0dc10296 MISC:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a86c76a1a197e8fbbbd0ce3e826eb58c471624 URL:https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/23a86c76a1a197e8fbbbd0ce3e826eb58c471624
Assigning CNA
kernel.org
Date Record Created
20241229	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
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Assigned (20241229)
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