Bug 2389464 (CVE-2025-38569)

Summary: CVE-2025-38569 kernel: benet: fix BUG when creating VFs
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-19 18:02:10 UTC 
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

benet: fix BUG when creating VFs

benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created:

 kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457!
 Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary)
 [...]
 RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70
 [...]
 Call Trace:
  <TASK>
  __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0
  be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net]
  be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net]
  be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net]
  be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net]
  be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net]
  sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380
  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530
  vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60
  ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0
  do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0

be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh.
Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.
Comment 1 Alexander B 2025-08-20 09:44:09 UTC 
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025081909-CVE-2025-38569-7ad5@gregkh/T