Bug 2400629 (CVE-2025-39925)
| Summary: | CVE-2025-39925 kernel: can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> | 
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev> | 
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | Keywords: | Security | 
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Doc Text: | 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 | Story Points: | --- | 
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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. [mkl: remove space in front of label]