CVE-2025-37772 — RDMA/cma: Fix workqueue crash in cma_netevent_work_handler

Affected: Linux

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

RDMA/cma: Fix workqueue crash in cma_netevent_work_handler

struct rdma_cm_id has member "struct work_struct net_work" that is reused for enqueuing cma_netevent_work_handler()s onto cma_wq.

Below crash[1] can occur if more than one call to cma_netevent_callback() occurs in quick succession, which further enqueues cma_netevent_work_handler()s for the same rdma_cm_id, overwriting any previously queued work-item(s) that was just scheduled to run i.e. there is no guarantee the queued work item may run between two successive calls to cma_netevent_callback() and the 2nd INIT_WORK would overwrite the 1st work item (for the same rdma_cm_id), despite grabbing id_table_lock during enqueue.

Also drgn analysis [2] indicates the work item was likely overwritten.

Fix this by moving the INIT_WORK() to __rdma_create_id(), so that it doesn't race with any existing queue_work() or its worker thread.

[1] Trimmed crash stack: ============================================= BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008 kworker/u256:6 ... 6.12.0-0... Workqueue: cma_netevent_work_handler [rdma_cm] (rdma_cm) RIP: 0010:process_one_work+0xba/0x31a Call Trace: worker_thread+0x266/0x3a0 kthread+0xcf/0x100 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x50 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 =============================================

[2] drgn crash analysis:

>>> trace = prog.crashed_thread().stack_trace() >>> trace (0) crash_setup_regs (./…

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CVE-2025-37772 — RDMA/cma: Fix workqueue crash in cma_netevent_work_handler