Bug 2373361 (CVE-2025-38037) - CVE-2025-38037 kernel: vxlan: Annotate FDB data races
Summary: CVE-2025-38037 kernel: vxlan: Annotate FDB data races
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38037
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-06-18 10:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-06-25 18:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 10:03:36 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

vxlan: Annotate FDB data races

The 'used' and 'updated' fields in the FDB entry structure can be
accessed concurrently by multiple threads, leading to reports such as
[1]. Can be reproduced using [2].

Suppress these reports by annotating these accesses using
READ_ONCE() / WRITE_ONCE().

[1]
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in vxlan_xmit / vxlan_xmit

write to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 286 on cpu 0:
 vxlan_xmit+0xb29/0x2380
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
 packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
 packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
 __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
 x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

read to 0xffff942604d263a8 of 8 bytes by task 287 on cpu 2:
 vxlan_xmit+0xadf/0x2380
 dev_hard_start_xmit+0x84/0x2f0
 __dev_queue_xmit+0x45a/0x1650
 packet_xmit+0x100/0x150
 packet_sendmsg+0x2114/0x2ac0
 __sys_sendto+0x318/0x330
 __x64_sys_sendto+0x76/0x90
 x64_sys_call+0x14e8/0x1c00
 do_syscall_64+0x9e/0x1a0
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

value changed: 0x00000000fffbac6e -> 0x00000000fffbac6f

Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 287 Comm: mausezahn Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7-01544-gb4b270f11a02 #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-3.fc41 04/01/2014

[2]
 #!/bin/bash

 set +H
 echo whitelist > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan
 echo !vxlan_xmit > /sys/kernel/debug/kcsan

 ip link add name vx0 up type vxlan id 10010 dstport 4789 local 192.0.2.1
 bridge fdb add 00:11:22:33:44:55 dev vx0 self static dst 198.51.100.1
 taskset -c 0 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &
 taskset -c 2 mausezahn vx0 -a own -b 00:11:22:33:44:55 -c 0 -q &

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-20 18:30:47 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061827-CVE-2025-38037-afa7@gregkh/T


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