Bug 2400629 (CVE-2025-39925)

Summary: CVE-2025-39925 kernel: can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler
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A flaw was discovered in the J1939 protocol implementation in the Linux kernel. The NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler was missing for undoing changes performed by j1939_sk_bind(). As a result, an extra reference remains on the j1939_priv structure when unregistering a network device, preventing its usage count from dropping and thus blocking the unregister_netdevice() call
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 09:01:49 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler

syzbot is reporting

  unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2

problem, for j1939 protocol did not have NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification
handler for undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind().

Commit 25fe97cb7620 ("can: j1939: move j1939_priv_put() into sk_destruct
callback") expects that a call to j1939_priv_put() can be unconditionally
delayed until j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called. But we need to call
j1939_priv_put() against an extra ref held by j1939_sk_bind() call
(as a part of undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind()) as soon as
NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification fires (i.e. before j1939_sk_sock_destruct()
is called via j1939_sk_release()). Otherwise, the extra ref on "struct
j1939_priv" held by j1939_sk_bind() call prevents "struct net_device" from
dropping the usage count to 1; making it impossible for
unregister_netdevice() to continue.

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