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CVE-2025-38165

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

bpf, sockmap: Fix panic when calling skb_linearize

The panic can be reproduced by executing the command:
./bench sockmap -c 2 -p 1 -a --rx-verdict-ingress --rx-strp 100000

Then a kernel panic was captured:
'''
[  657.460555] kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff.c:2178!
[  657.462680] Tainted: [W]=WARN
[  657.463287] Workqueue: events sk_psock_backlog
...
[  657.469610]  <TASK>
[  657.469738]  ? die+0x36/0x90
[  657.469916]  ? do_trap+0x1d0/0x270
[  657.470118]  ? pskb_expand_head+0x612/0xf40
[  657.470376]  ? pskb_expand_head+0x612/0xf40
[  657.470620]  ? do_error_trap+0xa3/0x170
[  657.470846]  ? pskb_expand_head+0x612/0xf40
[  657.471092]  ? handle_invalid_op+0x2c/0x40
[  657.471335]  ? pskb_expand_head+0x612/0xf40
[  657.471579]  ? exc_invalid_op+0x2d/0x40
[  657.471805]  ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20
[  657.472052]  ? pskb_expand_head+0xd1/0xf40
[  657.472292]  ? pskb_expand_head+0x612/0xf40
[  657.472540]  ? lock_acquire+0x18f/0x4e0
[  657.472766]  ? find_held_lock+0x2d/0x110
[  657.472999]  ? __pfx_pskb_expand_head+0x10/0x10
[  657.473263]  ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x5b/0x470
[  657.473537]  ? __pfx___lock_release.isra.0+0x10/0x10
[  657.473826]  __pskb_pull_tail+0xfd/0x1d20
[  657.474062]  ? __kasan_slab_alloc+0x4e/0x90
[  657.474707]  sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue+0x3bf/0x510
[  657.475392]  ? __kasan_kmalloc+0xaa/0xb0
[  657.476010]  sk_psock_backlog+0x5cf/0xd70
[  657.476637]  process_one_work+0x858/0x1a20
'''

The panic originates from the assertion BUG_ON(skb_shared(skb)) in
skb_linearize(). A previous commit(see Fixes tag) introduced skb_get()
to avoid race conditions between skb operations in the backlog and skb
release in the recvmsg path. However, this caused the panic to always
occur when skb_linearize is executed.

The "--rx-strp 100000" parameter forces the RX path to use the strparser
module which aggregates data until it reaches 100KB before calling sockmap
logic. The 100KB payload exceeds MAX_MSG_FRAGS, triggering skb_linearize.

To fix this issue, just move skb_get into sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue.

'''
sk_psock_backlog:
    sk_psock_handle_skb
       skb_get(skb) <== we move it into 'sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue'
       sk_psock_skb_ingress____________
                                       ↓
                                       |
                                       | → sk_psock_skb_ingress_self
                                       |      sk_psock_skb_ingress_enqueue
sk_psock_verdict_apply_________________↑          skb_linearize
'''

Note that for verdict_apply path, the skb_get operation is unnecessary so
we add 'take_ref' param to control it's behavior.

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VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusunaffected
Version < 4dba44333a11522df54b49aa1f2edfaf6ce35fc7
Version 65ad600b9bde68d2d28709943ab00b51ca8f0a1d
Status affected
Version < 9718ba6490732dbe70190d42c21deb1440834402
Version 923877254f002ae87d441382bb1096d9e773d56d
Status affected
Version < db1d15a26f21f97459508c42ae87cabe8d3afc3b
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Status affected
Version < 3d25fa2d7f127348c818e1dab9e58534f7ac56cc
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Status affected
Version < e9c1299d813fc04668042690f2c3cc76d013959a
Version a454d84ee20baf7bd7be90721b9821f73c7d23d9
Status affected
Version < 5ca2e29f6834c64c0e5a9ccf1278c21fb49b827e
Version a454d84ee20baf7bd7be90721b9821f73c7d23d9
Status affected
Version e6b5e47adb9166e732cdf7e6e034946e3f89f36d
Status affected
VendorLinux
Product Linux
Default Statusaffected
Version 6.6
Status affected
Version < 6.6
Version 0
Status unaffected
Version <= 5.15.*
Version 5.15.190
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.1.*
Version 6.1.142
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.6.*
Version 6.6.94
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.12.*
Version 6.12.34
Status unaffected
Version <= 6.15.*
Version 6.15.3
Status unaffected
Version <= *
Version 6.16
Status unaffected
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
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