Bug 2390362 (CVE-2025-38638) - CVE-2025-38638 kernel: ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
Summary: CVE-2025-38638 kernel: ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-38638
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-08-22 17:02 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-25 11:14 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-22 17:02:42 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: add a retry logic in net6_rt_notify()

inet6_rt_notify() can be called under RCU protection only.
This means the route could be changed concurrently
and rt6_fill_node() could return -EMSGSIZE.

Re-size the skb when this happens and retry, removing
one WARN_ON() that syzbot was able to trigger:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 6291 at net/ipv6/route.c:6342 inet6_rt_notify+0x475/0x4b0 net/ipv6/route.c:6342
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 6291 Comm: syz.0.77 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc7-syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2~bpo12+1 04/01/2014
 RIP: 0010:inet6_rt_notify+0x475/0x4b0 net/ipv6/route.c:6342
Code: fc ff ff e8 6d 52 ea f7 e9 47 fc ff ff 48 8b 7c 24 08 4c 89 04 24 e8 5a 52 ea f7 4c 8b 04 24 e9 94 fd ff ff e8 9c fe 84 f7 90 <0f> 0b 90 e9 bd fd ff ff e8 6e 52 ea f7 e9 bb fb ff ff 48 89 df e8
RSP: 0018:ffffc900035cf1d8 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc900035cf540 RCX: ffffffff8a36e790
RDX: ffff88802f7e8000 RSI: ffffffff8a36e9d4 RDI: 0000000000000005
RBP: ffff88803c230f00 R08: 0000000000000005 R09: 00000000ffffffa6
R10: 00000000ffffffa6 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 00000000ffffffa6
R13: 0000000000000900 R14: ffff888032ea4100 R15: 0000000000000000
FS:  00007fac7b89a6c0(0000) GS:ffff8880d6a20000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 00007fac7b899f98 CR3: 0000000034b3f000 CR4: 0000000000352ef0
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
  ip6_route_mpath_notify+0xde/0x280 net/ipv6/route.c:5356
  ip6_route_multipath_add+0x1181/0x1bd0 net/ipv6/route.c:5536
  inet6_rtm_newroute+0xe4/0x1a0 net/ipv6/route.c:5647
  rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x95e/0xe90 net/core/rtnetlink.c:6944
  netlink_rcv_skb+0x155/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
  netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
  netlink_unicast+0x58d/0x850 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
  netlink_sendmsg+0x8d1/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
  sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:712 [inline]
  __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:727 [inline]
  ____sys_sendmsg+0xa95/0xc70 net/socket.c:2566
  ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2620


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