Bug 2365255 (CVE-2025-37888)

Summary: CVE-2025-37888 kernel: net/mlx5: Fix null-ptr-deref in mlx5_create_{inner_,}ttc_table()
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-05-09 07:01:56 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Fix null-ptr-deref in mlx5_create_{inner_,}ttc_table()

Add NULL check for mlx5_get_flow_namespace() returns in
mlx5_create_inner_ttc_table() and mlx5_create_ttc_table() to prevent
NULL pointer dereference.