CVE-2025-39768

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-39768
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-39768.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-39768
Downstream
Published
2025-09-11T16:56:22.984Z
Modified
2026-03-09T23:55:50.016686Z
Summary
net/mlx5: HWS, fix complex rules rehash error flow
Details

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

net/mlx5: HWS, fix complex rules rehash error flow

Moving rules from matcher to matcher should not fail. However, if it does fail due to various reasons, the error flow should allow the kernel to continue functioning (albeit with broken steering rules) instead of going into series of soft lock-ups or some other problematic behaviour.

Similar to the simple rules, complex rules rehash logic suffers from the same problems. This patch fixes the error flow for moving complex rules: - If new rule creation fails before it was even enqeued, do not poll for completion - If TIMEOUT happened while moving the rule, no point trying to poll for completions for other rules. Something is broken, completion won't come, just abort the rehash sequence. - If some other completion with error received, don't give up. Continue handling rest of the rules to minimize the damage. - Make sure that the first error code that was received will be actually returned to the caller instead of replacing it with the generic error code.

All the aforementioned issues stem from the same bad error flow, so no point fixing them one by one and leaving partially broken code - fixing them in one patch.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/39xxx/CVE-2025-39768.json",
    "cna_assigner": "Linux"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git
Events
Introduced
17e0accac577fd6ea2090934d71a8c6f36702a26
Fixed
37d54bc28d092bc3b314da45d730f00e9d86ec2a
Fixed
4a842b1bf18a32ee0c25dd6dd98728b786a76fe4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-39768.json"