CVE-2025-40064
CVE-2025-40064CVE-2025-40064
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
smc: Fix use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev().
syzbot reported use-after-free of net_device in __pnet_find_base_ndev(),
which was called during connect(). [0]
smc_pnet_find_ism_resource() fetches sk_dst_get(sk)->dev and passes
down to pnet_find_base_ndev(), where RTNL is held. Then, UAF happened
at __pnet_find_base_ndev() when the dev is first used.
This means dev had already been freed before acquiring RTNL in
pnet_find_base_ndev().
While dev is going away, dst->dev could be swapped with blackhole_netdev,
and the dev's refcnt by dst will be released.
We must hold dev's refcnt before calling smc_pnet_find_ism_resource().
Also, smc_pnet_find_roce_resource() has the same problem.
Let's use __sk_dst_get() and dst_dev_rcu() in the two functions.
[0]:
BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in __pnet_find_base_ndev+0x1b1/0x1c0 net/smc/smc_pnet.c:926
Read of size 1 at addr ffff888036bac33a by task syz.0.3632/18609
CPU: 1
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 () |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| Last modified | 2026-07-30 |