In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values
Sabrina reported the following splat:
WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0
Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48
RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e
RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6
RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c
R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168
R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
<TASK>
gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270
xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0
xfrm_init+0x38/0x50
ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350
ip_init+0xf/0x20
inet_init+0x406/0x590
do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0
do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280
kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490
kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0
ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
</TASK>
irq event stamp: 584330
hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [<ffffffff8168bf87>] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0
hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [<ffffffff8168bf6c>] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0
softirqs last enabled at (583242): [<ffffffff833ee96d>] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470
softirqs last disabled at (583754): [<ffffffff8317c8cd>] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0
on kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024)
is smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD.
Such built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache
so that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering
the splat.
Note that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned
revert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP
and GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb()
to select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
References
History
Wed, 29 Oct 2025 21:15:00 +0000
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| Weaknesses | NVD-CWE-noinfo | |
| CPEs | cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.14:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| Vendors & Products |
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Linux linux Kernel |
Wed, 02 Apr 2025 02:15:00 +0000
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Thu, 27 Mar 2025 14:00:00 +0000
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| Description | In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values Sabrina reported the following splat: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1 at net/core/dev.c:6935 netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 6.14.0-rc1-net-00092-g011b03359038 #996 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Arch Linux 1.16.3-1-1 04/01/2014 RIP: 0010:netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x8f2/0xba0 Code: e8 c3 e6 6a fe 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 cc cc cc cc c7 44 24 10 ff ff ff ff e9 8f fb ff ff e8 9e e6 6a fe <0f> 0b e9 d3 fe ff ff e8 92 e6 6a fe 48 8b 04 24 be ff ff ff ff 48 RSP: 0000:ffffc9000001fc60 EFLAGS: 00010293 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88806ce48128 RCX: 1ffff11001664b9e RDX: ffff888008f00040 RSI: ffffffff8317ca42 RDI: ffff88800b325cb6 RBP: ffff88800b325c40 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: ffffed100167502c R10: ffff88800b3a8163 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88800ac1c168 R13: ffff88800ac1c168 R14: ffff88800ac1c168 R15: 0000000000000007 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88806ce00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff888008201000 CR3: 0000000004c94001 CR4: 0000000000370ef0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: <TASK> gro_cells_init+0x1ba/0x270 xfrm_input_init+0x4b/0x2a0 xfrm_init+0x38/0x50 ip_rt_init+0x2d7/0x350 ip_init+0xf/0x20 inet_init+0x406/0x590 do_one_initcall+0x9d/0x2e0 do_initcalls+0x23b/0x280 kernel_init_freeable+0x445/0x490 kernel_init+0x20/0x1d0 ret_from_fork+0x46/0x80 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 </TASK> irq event stamp: 584330 hardirqs last enabled at (584338): [<ffffffff8168bf87>] __up_console_sem+0x77/0xb0 hardirqs last disabled at (584345): [<ffffffff8168bf6c>] __up_console_sem+0x5c/0xb0 softirqs last enabled at (583242): [<ffffffff833ee96d>] netlink_insert+0x14d/0x470 softirqs last disabled at (583754): [<ffffffff8317c8cd>] netif_napi_add_weight_locked+0x77d/0xba0 on kernel built with MAX_SKB_FRAGS=45, where SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD(1024) is smaller than GRO_MAX_HEAD. Such built additionally contains the revert of the single page frag cache so that napi_get_frags() ends up using the page frag allocator, triggering the splat. Note that the underlying issue is independent from the mentioned revert; address it ensuring that the small head cache will fit either TCP and GRO allocation and updating napi_alloc_skb() and __netdev_alloc_skb() to select kmalloc() usage for any allocation fitting such cache. | |
| Title | net: allow small head cache usage with large MAX_SKB_FRAGS values | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Linux
Published:
Updated: 2025-05-04T07:22:51.827Z
Reserved: 2024-12-29T08:45:45.781Z
Link: CVE-2025-21868
No data.
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2025-03-27T14:15:47.873
Modified: 2025-10-29T21:08:47.973
Link: CVE-2025-21868