CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-21806
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2025-02-27
- Last modified
- 2026-10-15
- Assigner
- 416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: let net.core.dev_weight always be non-zero
The following problem was encountered during stability test:
(NULL net_device): NAPI poll function process_backlog+0x0/0x530 \
returned 1, exceeding its budget of 0.
------------[ cut here ]------------
list_add double add: new=ffff88905f746f48, prev=ffff88905f746f48, \
next=ffff88905f746e40.
WARNING: CPU: 18 PID: 5462 at lib/list_debug.c:35 \
__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
CPU: 18 UID: 0 PID: 5462 Comm: ping Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.13.0-rc7+
RIP: 0010:__list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
Call Trace:
? __warn+0xcd/0x250
? __list_add_valid_or_report+0xf3/0x130
enqueue_to_backlog+0x923/0x1070
netif_rx_internal+0x92/0x2b0
__netif_rx+0x15/0x170
loopback_xmit+0x2ef/0x450
dev_hard_start_xmit+0x103/0x490
__dev_queue_xmit+0xeac/0x1950
ip_finish_output2+0x6cc/0x1620
ip_output+0x161/0x270
ip_push_pending_frames+0x155/0x1a0
raw_sendmsg+0xe13/0x1550
__sys_sendto+0x3bf/0x4e0
__x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0
do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x170
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
The reproduction command is as follows:
sysctl -w net.core.dev_weight=0
ping 127.0.0.1
This is because when the napi's weight is set to 0, process_backlog() may
return 0 and clear the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit of napi->state, causing this
napi to be re-polled in net_rx_action() until __do_softirq() times out.
Since the NAPI_STATE_SCHED bit has been cleared, napi_schedule_rps() can
be retriggered in enqueue_to_backlog(), causing this issue.
Making the napi's weight always non-zero solves this problem.
Triggering this issue requires system-wide admin (setting is
not namespaced).
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.13 < 5.4.291)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.5 < 5.10.235)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.11 < 5.15.179)
• linux linux kernel (>= 5.16 < 6.1.129)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.2 < 6.6.76)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.7 < 6.12.13)
• linux linux kernel (>= 6.13 < 6.13.2)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.12
References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e2f1d93d287d544d26f8ff293ea820a8079b9f8 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1489824e5226a26841c70639ebd2d1aed390764b Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/33e2168788f8fb5cb8bd4f36cb1ef37d1d34dada Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5860abbf15eeb61838b5e32e721ba67b0aa84450 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6ce38b5a6a49e65bad163162a54cb3f104c40b48 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c337c08819a4ec49edfdcd8fc46fbee120d8a5b2 Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d0e0f9c8218826926d7692980c98236d9f21fd3c Patch
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d1f9f79fa2af8e3b45cffdeef66e05833480148a Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00028.html lists.debian.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00030.html lists.debian.org
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-503939.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-784472.html cert-portal.siemens.com