CVE-2025-21682 — eth: bnxt: always recalculate features after XDP clearing, fix null-deref

Affected: Linux, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP, Siemens SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP

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

eth: bnxt: always recalculate features after XDP clearing, fix null-deref

Recalculate features when XDP is detached.

Before: # ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp # ip li set dev eth0 xdp off # ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro rx-gro-hw: off [requested on]

After: # ip li set dev eth0 xdp obj xdp_dummy.bpf.o sec xdp # ip li set dev eth0 xdp off # ethtool -k eth0 | grep gro rx-gro-hw: on

The fact that HW-GRO doesn't get re-enabled automatically is just a minor annoyance. The real issue is that the features will randomly come back during another reconfiguration which just happens to invoke netdev_update_features(). The driver doesn't handle reconfiguring two things at a time very robustly.

Starting with commit 98ba1d931f61 ("bnxt_en: Fix RSS logic in __bnxt_reserve_rings()") we only reconfigure the RSS hash table if the "effective" number of Rx rings has changed. If HW-GRO is enabled "effective" number of rings is 2x what user sees. So if we are in the bad state, with HW-GRO re-enablement "pending" after XDP off, and we lower the rings by / 2 - the HW-GRO rings doing 2x and the ethtool -L doing / 2 may cancel each other out, and the:

if (old_rx_rings != bp->hw_resc.resv_rx_rings &&

condition in __bnxt_reserve_rings() will be false. The RSS map won't get updated, and we'll crash with:

BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000168 RIP: 0010:__bnxt_hwrm_vni…

USN-7445-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11, linux-oem-6.11, linux-oracle,…

Affected: Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-hwe-6.11, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: linux-oem-6.11

Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - GPIO subsystem; - GPU drivers; - IRQ chip drivers; - Network drivers; - Mellanox network drivers; - x86 platform drivers; - i.MX PM domains; - SCSI subsystem; - USB Serial drivers; - AFS file system; - GFS2 file system; - File systems infrastructure; - Proc file system; - SMB network file system; - Timer subsystem; - Kernel CPU control infrastructure; - Memory management; - Networking core; - Ethtool driver; - IEEE 802.15.4 subsystem; - Open vSwitch; - Network traffic control; - VMware vSockets driver; (CVE-2025-21685, CVE-2025-21684, CVE-2025-21756, CVE-2025-21670, CVE-2024-57949, CVE-2025-21677, CVE-2025-21680, CVE-2025-21703, CVE-2024-57952, CVE-2025-21674, CVE-2025-21701, CVE-2025-21691, CVE-2025-21689, CVE-2025-21668, CVE-2025-21665, CVE-2025-21683, CVE-2025-21675, CVE-2025-21672, CVE-2024-57948, CVE-2025-21669, CVE-2025-21673, CVE-2025-21692, CVE-2025-21699, CVE-2025-21702, CVE-2025-21682, CVE-2025-21690, CVE-2025-21681, CVE-2025-21695, CVE-2025-21696, CVE-2025-21700, CVE-2025-21678, CVE-2025-21676, CVE-2024-57950, CVE-2025-21666, CVE-2025-21694, CVE-2025-21693, CVE-2025-21993, CVE-2024-57951, CVE-2025-21697, CVE-2025-21667)

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CVE-2025-21682 — eth: bnxt: always recalculate features after XDP clearing, fix null-deref

USN-7445-1 — linux, linux-aws, linux-gcp, linux-hwe-6.11, linux-lowlatency, linux-lowlatency-hwe-6.11, linux-oem-6.11, linux-oracle,…