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CVE-2025-40238 json

net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device

published 2025-12-04 11 mo ago modified 2026-10-19 20 d ago also EUVD-2025-201221

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epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
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Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device

When we do mlx5e_detach_netdev() we eventually disable blocking events notifier, among those events are IPsec MPV events from IB to core.

So before disabling those blocking events, make sure to also unregister the devcom device and mark all this device operations as complete, in order to prevent the other device from using invalid netdev during future devcom events which could cause the trace below.

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000010 PGD 146427067 P4D 146427067 PUD 146488067 PMD 0 Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 7735 Comm: devlink Tainted: GW 6.12.0-rc6_for_upstream_min_debug_2024_11_08_00_46 #1 Tainted: [W]=WARN Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core] Code: 00 01 48 83 05 23 32 1e 00 01 41 b8 ed ff ff ff e9 60 ff ff ff 48 83 05 00 32 1e 00 01 eb e3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 <48> 8b 47 10 48 83 05 5f 32 1e 00 01 48 8b 50 40 48 85 d2 74 05 40 RSP: 0018:ffff88811a5c35f8 EFLAGS: 00010206 RAX: ffff888106e8ab80 RBX: ffff888107d7e200 RCX: ffff88810d6f0a00 RDX: ffff88810d6f0a00 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: 0000000000000000 RBP: ffff88811a17e620 R08: 0000000000000040 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff88811a5c3618 R11: 0000000de85d51bd R12: ffff88811a17e600 R13: ffff88810d6f0a00 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff8881034bda80 FS: 00007f27bdf89180(0000) GS:ffff88852c880000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000010f159005 CR4: 0000000000372eb0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> ? __die+0x20/0x60 ? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x3e0 ? exc_page_fault+0x74/0x130 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30 ? mlx5_devcom_comp_set_ready+0x5/0x40 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_devcom_event_mpv+0x42/0x60 [mlx5_core] mlx5_devcom_send_event+0x8c/0x170 [mlx5_core] blocking_event+0x17b/0x230 [mlx5_core] notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xa0 blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60 mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core] mlx5_core_mp_event_replay+0x12/0x20 [mlx5_core] mlx5_ib_bind_slave_port+0x228/0x2c0 [mlx5_ib] mlx5_ib_stage_init_init+0x664/0x9d0 [mlx5_ib] ? idr_alloc_cyclic+0x50/0xb0 ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x167/0x340 ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x1a7/0x430 __mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib] mlx5r_probe+0xe9/0x310 [mlx5_ib] ? kernfs_add_one+0x107/0x150 ? __mlx5_ib_add+0xd0/0xd0 [mlx5_ib] auxiliary_bus_probe+0x3e/0x90 really_probe+0xc5/0x3a0 ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90 __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160 driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90 __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100 bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0 __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0 bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0 device_add+0x62d/0x830 __auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0 ? auxiliary_device_init+0x41/0x90 add_adev+0xd1/0x150 [mlx5_core] mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x21c/0x300 [mlx5_core] esw_mode_change+0x6c/0xc0 [mlx5_core] mlx5_devlink_eswitch_mode_set+0x21e/0x640 [mlx5_core] devlink_nl_eswitch_set_doit+0x60/0xe0 genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd0/0x120 genl_rcv_msg+0x180/0x2b0 ? devlink_get_from_attrs_lock+0x170/0x170 ? devlink_nl_eswitch_get_doit+0x290/0x290 ? devlink_nl_pre_doit_port_optional+0x50/0x50 ? genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0xf0/0xf0 netlink_rcv_skb+0x54/0x100 genl_rcv+0x24/0x40 netlink_unicast+0x1fc/0x2d0 netlink_sendmsg+0x1e4/0x410 __sock_sendmsg+0x38/0x60 ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x12/0x60 __sys_sendto+0x105/0x160 ? __sys_recvmsg+0x4e/0x90 __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30 do_syscall_64+0x4c/0x100 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 RIP: 0033:0x7f27bc91b13a Code: bb 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 8b 05 fa 96 2c 00 45 89 c9 4c 63 d1 48 63 ff 85 c0 75 15 b8 2c 00 00 00 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 ff ff ---truncated---

Patch / fix

  • Linux Linux 6.12.56, 6.17.6, 6.18
  • linux Debian 13 6.12.57-1
  • linux Debian 14 6.17.6-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40238

  • linux Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-106.106
  • linux Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-14.14
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1050.53
  • linux-aws Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1052.55
  • linux-gcp Ubuntu 25.10 6.17.0-1007.7
  • linux-gke Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1048.53
  • linux-ibm Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 6.8.0-1049.49

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40238

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • kernel-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-source-rt Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-40.1
  • kernel-source Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-default Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-kvmsmall Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1
  • kernel-default-base Linux Micro 6.1, Linux Micro 6.0 6.4.0-39.1.21.16
  • kernel-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.31.2
  • kernel-syms-rt Real Time Module 15 SP7 6.4.0-150700.7.31.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:20845-1SUSE-SU-2026:20876-1SUSE-SU-2026:20477-1SUSE-SU-2026:20498-1SUSE-SU-2026:0587-1SUSE-SU-2026:0472-1

  • kernel-rt openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • dtb-aarch64 openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-64kb openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-syms openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-azure openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-obs-qa openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-source openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1
  • kernel-default openSUSE Leap 16.0 6.12.0-160000.9.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20145-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-40238 updated cvss 4.7

kernel: net/mlx5: Fix IPsec cleanup over MPV device

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 perf, kernel, python-perf, kernel-kdump, kernel-firmware, kernel-bootwrapper, +1 more
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rv, perf, rtla, kernel, bpftool, libperf, +83 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 kernel
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, python-perf, kernel-kdump, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 perf, kernel, bpftool, kernel-rt, kernel-core, kernel-tools, +29 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Affected products

  • Linux Linux

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