CVE-2025-38186
CVE-2025-38186CVE-2025-38186
linux / linux_kernel
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
bnxt_en: Fix double invocation of bnxt_ulp_stop()/bnxt_ulp_start()
Before the commit under the Fixes tag below, bnxt_ulp_stop() and
bnxt_ulp_start() were always invoked in pairs. After that commit,
the new bnxt_ulp_restart() can be invoked after bnxt_ulp_stop()
has been called. This may result in the RoCE driver's aux driver
.suspend() method being invoked twice. The 2nd bnxt_re_suspend()
call will crash when it dereferences a NULL pointer:
(NULL ib_device): Handle device suspend call
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000b78
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP PTI
CPU: 20 UID: 0 PID: 181 Comm: kworker/u96:5 Tainted: G S 6.15.0-rc1 #4 PREEMPT(voluntary)
Tainted: [S]=CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R730/072T6D, BIOS 2.4.3 01/17/2017
Workqueue: bnxt_pf_wq bnxt_sp_task [bnxt_en]
RIP: 0010:bnxt_re_suspend+0x45/0x1f0 [bnxt_re]
Code: 8b 05 a7 3c 5b f5 48 89 44
Scoring
| CVSS | 5.5 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-11-05 |