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GHSA-7CRX-7PFP-HG6J

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-01-13 18:31 – Updated: 2026-01-13 18:31

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

net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice

PSP is unregistered twice in: _mlx5e_remove -> mlx5e_psp_unregister mlx5e_nic_cleanup -> mlx5e_psp_unregister

This leads to a refcount underflow in some conditions: ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1694 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0 [...] mlx5e_psp_unregister+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_nic_cleanup+0x26/0x90 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_remove+0xe6/0x1f0 [mlx5_core] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0 bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130 device_del+0x159/0x3c0 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2a0 [mlx5_core] [...]

Do not directly remove psp from the _mlx5e_remove path, the PSP cleanup happens as part of profile cleanup.

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CVE-2025-68779 (GCVE-0-2025-68779)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-13 15:28 – Updated: 2026-01-13 15:28

Title

net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice PSP is unregistered twice in: _mlx5e_remove -> mlx5e_psp_unregister mlx5e_nic_cleanup -> mlx5e_psp_unregister This leads to a refcount underflow in some conditions: ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1694 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0 [...] mlx5e_psp_unregister+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_nic_cleanup+0x26/0x90 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_remove+0xe6/0x1f0 [mlx5_core] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0 bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130 device_del+0x159/0x3c0 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2a0 [mlx5_core] [...] Do not directly remove psp from the _mlx5e_remove path, the PSP cleanup happens as part of profile cleanup.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

Assigner

Linux

References

URL

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	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e12c912f92ccea671…
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/35e93736f69963337…

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Linux

Affected: 89ee2d92f66c45625ff1c173df2dbdea32568c5d , < e12c912f92ccea671b514caf371f28485714bb4b (git)
Affected: 89ee2d92f66c45625ff1c173df2dbdea32568c5d , < 35e93736f69963337912594eb3951ab320b77521 (git)

Linux

Affected: 6.18
Unaffected: 0 , < 6.18 (semver)
Unaffected: 6.18.3 , ≤ 6.18.* (semver)
Unaffected: 6.19-rc2 , ≤ * (original_commit_for_fix)

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GHSA-7CRX-7PFP-HG6J

CVE-2025-68779 (GCVE-0-2025-68779)

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