CVE-2025-71233 (GCVE-0-2025-71233)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-18 14:53 – Updated: 2026-02-23 03:16
VLAI?
Title
PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
PCI: endpoint: Avoid creating sub-groups asynchronously
The asynchronous creation of sub-groups by a delayed work could lead to a
NULL pointer dereference when the driver directory is removed before the
work completes.
The crash can be easily reproduced with the following commands:
# cd /sys/kernel/config/pci_ep/functions/pci_epf_test
# for i in {1..20}; do mkdir test && rmdir test; done
BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000088
...
Call Trace:
configfs_register_group+0x3d/0x190
pci_epf_cfs_work+0x41/0x110
process_one_work+0x18f/0x350
worker_thread+0x25a/0x3a0
Fix this issue by using configfs_add_default_group() API which does not
have the deadlock problem as configfs_register_group() and does not require
the delayed work handler.
[mani: slightly reworded the description and added stable list]
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < fa9fb38f5fe9c80094c2138354d45cdc8d094d69
(git)
Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < 5f609b3bffd4207cf9f2c9b41e1978457a5a1ea9 (git) Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < 8cb905eca73944089a0db01443c7628a9e87012d (git) Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < d9af3cf58bb4c8d6dea4166011c780756b1138b5 (git) Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < 24a253c3aa6d9a2cde46158ce9782e023bfbf32d (git) Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < 73cee890adafa2c219bb865356e08e7f82423fe5 (git) Affected: e85a2d7837622bd99c96f5bbc7f972da90c285a2 , < 7c5c7d06bd1f86d2c3ebe62be903a4ba42db4d2c (git) |
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