{"id":"CVE-2024-38608","summary":"net/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix netif state handling\n\nmlx5e_suspend cleans resources only if netif_device_present() returns\ntrue. However, mlx5e_resume changes the state of netif, via\nmlx5e_nic_enable, only if reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED.\nIn the below case, the above leads to NULL-ptr Oops[1] and memory\nleaks:\n\nmlx5e_probe\n _mlx5e_resume\n  mlx5e_attach_netdev\n   mlx5e_nic_enable  \u003c-- netdev not reg, not calling netif_device_attach()\n  register_netdev \u003c-- failed for some reason.\nERROR_FLOW:\n _mlx5e_suspend \u003c-- netif_device_present return false, resources aren't freed :(\n\nHence, clean resources in this case as well.\n\n[1]\nBUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000000\nPGD 0 P4D 0\nOops: 0010 [#1] SMP\nCPU: 2 PID: 9345 Comm: test-ovs-ct-gen Not tainted 6.5.0_for_upstream_min_debug_2023_09_05_16_01 #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.13.0-0-gf21b5a4aeb02-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:0x0\nCode: Unable to access opcode bytes at0xffffffffffffffd6.\nRSP: 0018:ffff888178aaf758 EFLAGS: 00010246\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __die+0x20/0x60\n ? page_fault_oops+0x14c/0x3c0\n ? exc_page_fault+0x75/0x140\n ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n notifier_call_chain+0x35/0xb0\n blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x3d/0x60\n mlx5_blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x30 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_core_uplink_netdev_event_replay+0x3e/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_mdev_netdev_track+0x53/0x60 [mlx5_ib]\n mlx5_ib_roce_init+0xc3/0x340 [mlx5_ib]\n __mlx5_ib_add+0x34/0xd0 [mlx5_ib]\n mlx5r_probe+0xe1/0x210 [mlx5_ib]\n ? auxiliary_match_id+0x6a/0x90\n auxiliary_bus_probe+0x38/0x80\n ? driver_sysfs_add+0x51/0x80\n really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0\n ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90\n __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160\n driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90\n __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100\n bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0\n __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0\n bus_probe_device+0x86/0xa0\n device_add+0x637/0x840\n __auxiliary_device_add+0x3b/0xa0\n add_adev+0xc9/0x140 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0x22a/0x310 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_register_device+0x53/0xa0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_init_one_devl_locked+0x5c4/0x9c0 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5_init_one+0x3b/0x60 [mlx5_core]\n probe_one+0x44c/0x730 [mlx5_core]\n local_pci_probe+0x3e/0x90\n pci_device_probe+0xbf/0x210\n ? kernfs_create_link+0x5d/0xa0\n ? sysfs_do_create_link_sd+0x60/0xc0\n really_probe+0xc9/0x3e0\n ? driver_probe_device+0x90/0x90\n __driver_probe_device+0x80/0x160\n driver_probe_device+0x1e/0x90\n __device_attach_driver+0x7d/0x100\n bus_for_each_drv+0x80/0xd0\n __device_attach+0xbc/0x1f0\n pci_bus_add_device+0x54/0x80\n pci_iov_add_virtfn+0x2e6/0x320\n sriov_enable+0x208/0x420\n mlx5_core_sriov_configure+0x9e/0x200 [mlx5_core]\n sriov_numvfs_store+0xae/0x1a0\n kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x10c/0x1a0\n vfs_write+0x291/0x3c0\n ksys_write+0x5f/0xe0\n do_syscall_64+0x3d/0x90\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x46/0xb0\n CR2: 0000000000000000\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000  ]---","modified":"2026-03-20T12:37:10.017013Z","published":"2024-06-19T13:56:10.614Z","related":["ALSA-2024:5928","ALSA-2024:8856","ALSA-2024:8870","SUSE-SU-2024:2360-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2372-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2381-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2394-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2561-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2571-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2896-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2939-1","SUSE-SU-2024:2973-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20008-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20028-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38608.json","cna_assigner":"Linux"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3d5918477f94e4c2f064567875c475468e264644"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f7e6cfb864a53af71c5cc904f1cc22215d68f5c6"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38608.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38608"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://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":"2c3b5beec46ab0d77c94828eb15170b333ae769a"},{"fixed":"f7e6cfb864a53af71c5cc904f1cc22215d68f5c6"},{"fixed":"3d5918477f94e4c2f064567875c475468e264644"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38608.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}