Bug 2429102 (CVE-2025-68790) - CVE-2025-68790 kernel: net/mlx5: Fix double unregister of HCA_PORTS component
Summary: CVE-2025-68790 kernel: net/mlx5: Fix double unregister of HCA_PORTS component
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-68790
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2026-01-13 16:06 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-14 23:22 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-13 16:06:52 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Fix double unregister of HCA_PORTS component

Clear hca_devcom_comp in device's private data after unregistering it in
LAG teardown. Otherwise a slightly lagging second pass through
mlx5_unload_one() might try to unregister it again and trip over
use-after-free.

On s390 almost all PCI level recovery events trigger two passes through
mxl5_unload_one() - one through the poll_health() method and one through
mlx5_pci_err_detected() as callback from generic PCI error recovery.
While testing PCI error recovery paths with more kernel debug features
enabled, this issue reproducibly led to kernel panics with the following
call chain:

 Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference in virtual kernel address space
 Failing address: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6000 TEID: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6803 ESOP-2 FSI
 Fault in home space mode while using kernel ASCE.
 AS:00000000705c4007 R3:0000000000000024
 Oops: 0038 ilc:3 [#1]SMP

 CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 156 Comm: kmcheck Kdump: loaded Not tainted
      6.18.0-20251130.rc7.git0.16131a59cab1.300.fc43.s390x+debug #1 PREEMPT

 Krnl PSW : 0404e00180000000 0000020fc86aa1dc (__lock_acquire+0x5c/0x15f0)
            R:0 T:1 IO:0 EX:0 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:3 CC:2 PM:0 RI:0 EA:3
 Krnl GPRS: 0000000000000000 0000020f00000001 6b6b6b6b6b6b6c33 0000000000000000
            0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
            0000000000000000 0000020fca28b820 0000000000000000 0000010a1ced8100
            0000010a1ced8100 0000020fc9775068 0000018fce14f8b8 0000018fce14f7f8
 Krnl Code: 0000020fc86aa1cc: e3b003400004        lg      %r11,832
            0000020fc86aa1d2: a7840211           brc     8,0000020fc86aa5f4
           *0000020fc86aa1d6: c09000df0b25       larl    %r9,0000020fca28b820
           >0000020fc86aa1dc: d50790002000       clc     0(8,%r9),0(%r2)
            0000020fc86aa1e2: a7840209           brc     8,0000020fc86aa5f4
            0000020fc86aa1e6: c0e001100401       larl    %r14,0000020fca8aa9e8
            0000020fc86aa1ec: c01000e25a00       larl    %r1,0000020fca2f55ec
            0000020fc86aa1f2: a7eb00e8           aghi    %r14,232

 Call Trace:
  __lock_acquire+0x5c/0x15f0
  lock_acquire.part.0+0xf8/0x270
  lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1b0
  down_write+0x5a/0x250
  mlx5_detach_device+0x42/0x110 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_unload_one_devl_locked+0x50/0xc0 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_unload_one+0x42/0x60 [mlx5_core]
  mlx5_pci_err_detected+0x94/0x150 [mlx5_core]
  zpci_event_attempt_error_recovery+0xcc/0x388


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