Bug 2400609 (CVE-2025-39900) - CVE-2025-39900 kernel: net_sched: gen_estimator: fix est_timer() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y
Summary: CVE-2025-39900 kernel: net_sched: gen_estimator: fix est_timer() vs CONFIG_PR...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-39900
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-10-01 08:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-10-02 11:11 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-10-01 08:02:24 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net_sched: gen_estimator: fix est_timer() vs CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y

syzbot reported a WARNING in est_timer() [1]

Problem here is that with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y, timer callbacks
can be preempted.

Adopt preempt_disable_nested()/preempt_enable_nested() to fix this.

[1]
 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at ./include/linux/seqlock.h:221 __seqprop_assert include/linux/seqlock.h:221 [inline]
 WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 16 at ./include/linux/seqlock.h:221 est_timer+0x6dc/0x9f0 net/core/gen_estimator.c:93
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 16 Comm: ktimers/0 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 07/12/2025
 RIP: 0010:__seqprop_assert include/linux/seqlock.h:221 [inline]
 RIP: 0010:est_timer+0x6dc/0x9f0 net/core/gen_estimator.c:93
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  call_timer_fn+0x17e/0x5f0 kernel/time/timer.c:1747
  expire_timers kernel/time/timer.c:1798 [inline]
  __run_timers kernel/time/timer.c:2372 [inline]
  __run_timer_base+0x648/0x970 kernel/time/timer.c:2384
  run_timer_base kernel/time/timer.c:2393 [inline]
  run_timer_softirq+0xb7/0x180 kernel/time/timer.c:2403
  handle_softirqs+0x22c/0x710 kernel/softirq.c:579
  __do_softirq kernel/softirq.c:613 [inline]
  run_ktimerd+0xcf/0x190 kernel/softirq.c:1043
  smpboot_thread_fn+0x53f/0xa60 kernel/smpboot.c:160
  kthread+0x70e/0x8a0 kernel/kthread.c:463
  ret_from_fork+0x3fc/0x770 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:148
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
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