Bug 2432357 (CVE-2025-71156) - CVE-2025-71156 kernel: gve: defer interrupt enabling until NAPI registration
Summary: CVE-2025-71156 kernel: gve: defer interrupt enabling until NAPI registration
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-71156
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: 2026-01-23 15:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-01-23 18:36 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-23 15:01:53 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

gve: defer interrupt enabling until NAPI registration

Currently, interrupts are automatically enabled immediately upon
request. This allows interrupt to fire before the associated NAPI
context is fully initialized and cause failures like below:

[    0.946369] Call Trace:
[    0.946369]  <IRQ>
[    0.946369]  __napi_poll+0x2a/0x1e0
[    0.946369]  net_rx_action+0x2f9/0x3f0
[    0.946369]  handle_softirqs+0xd6/0x2c0
[    0.946369]  ? handle_edge_irq+0xc1/0x1b0
[    0.946369]  __irq_exit_rcu+0xc3/0xe0
[    0.946369]  common_interrupt+0x81/0xa0
[    0.946369]  </IRQ>
[    0.946369]  <TASK>
[    0.946369]  asm_common_interrupt+0x22/0x40
[    0.946369] RIP: 0010:pv_native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10

Use the `IRQF_NO_AUTOEN` flag when requesting interrupts to prevent auto
enablement and explicitly enable the interrupt in NAPI initialization
path (and disable it during NAPI teardown).

This ensures that interrupt lifecycle is strictly coupled with
readiness of NAPI context.


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