Bug 2390354 (CVE-2025-38624)

Summary:	CVE-2025-38624 kernel: PCI: pnv_php: Clean up allocated IRQs on unplug
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in the pnv-php module in the Linux kernel. When the root of a nested PCIe bridge configuration is unplugged, the driver fails to properly clean up and deallocate the IRQ resources for the child bridges' hotplug event notifications, resulting in a kernel panic and denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 17:02:18 UTC

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

PCI: pnv_php: Clean up allocated IRQs on unplug

When the root of a nested PCIe bridge configuration is unplugged, the
pnv_php driver leaked the allocated IRQ resources for the child bridges'
hotplug event notifications, resulting in a panic.

Fix this by walking all child buses and deallocating all its IRQ resources
before calling pci_hp_remove_devices().

Also modify the lifetime of the workqueue at struct pnv_php_slot::wq so
that it is only destroyed in pnv_php_free_slot(), instead of
pnv_php_disable_irq(). This is required since pnv_php_disable_irq() will
now be called by workers triggered by hot unplug interrupts, so the
workqueue needs to stay allocated.

The abridged kernel panic that occurs without this patch is as follows:

  WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 687 at kernel/irq/msi.c:292 msi_device_data_release+0x6c/0x9c
  CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 687 Comm: bash Not tainted 6.14.0-rc5+ #2
  Call Trace:
   msi_device_data_release+0x34/0x9c (unreliable)
   release_nodes+0x64/0x13c
   devres_release_all+0xc0/0x140
   device_del+0x2d4/0x46c
   pci_destroy_dev+0x5c/0x194
   pci_hp_remove_devices+0x90/0x128
   pci_hp_remove_devices+0x44/0x128
   pnv_php_disable_slot+0x54/0xd4
   power_write_file+0xf8/0x18c
   pci_slot_attr_store+0x40/0x5c
   sysfs_kf_write+0x64/0x78
   kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x1b0/0x290
   vfs_write+0x3bc/0x50c
   ksys_write+0x84/0x140
   system_call_exception+0x124/0x230
   system_call_vectored_common+0x15c/0x2ec

[bhelgaas: tidy comments]

Comment 1 Keith Grant 2025-08-22 19:58:25 UTC

Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025082230-CVE-2025-38624-81fa@gregkh/T