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ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

Published Feb 26, 2025 · Updated May 11, 2026 · Assigned by Linux

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Description

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

ixgbe: Add locking to prevent panic when setting sriov_numvfs to zero

It is possible to disable VFs while the PF driver is processing requests
from the VF driver. This can result in a panic.

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at 000000000000106c
PGD 0 P4D 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G I --------- -
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R740/06WXJT, BIOS 2.8.2 08/27/2020
RIP: 0010:ixgbe_msg_task+0x4c8/0x1690 [ixgbe]
Code: 00 00 48 8d 04 40 48 c1 e0 05 89 7c 24 24 89 fd 48 89 44 24 10 83 ff
01 0f 84 b8 04 00 00 4c 8b 64 24 10 4d 03 a5 48 22 00 00 <41> 80 7c 24 4c
00 0f 84 8a 03 00 00 0f b7 c7 83 f8 08 0f 84 8f 0a
RSP: 0018:ffffb337869f8df8 EFLAGS: 00010002
RAX: 0000000000001020 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 000000000000002b
RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: 0000000000000006
RBP: 0000000000000006 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000029780
R10: 00006957d8f42832 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000001020
R13: ffff8a00e8978ac0 R14: 000000000000002b R15: ffff8a00e8979c80
FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8a07dfd00000(0000) knlGS:00000000000000
CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000000000106c CR3: 0000000063e10004 CR4: 00000000007726e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
PKRU: 55555554
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
? ttwu_do_wakeup+0x19/0x140
? try_to_wake_up+0x1cd/0x550
? ixgbevf_update_xcast_mode+0x71/0xc0 [ixgbevf]
ixgbe_msix_other+0x17e/0x310 [ixgbe]
__handle_irq_event_percpu+0x40/0x180
handle_irq_event_percpu+0x30/0x80
handle_irq_event+0x36/0x53
handle_edge_irq+0x82/0x190
handle_irq+0x1c/0x30
do_IRQ+0x49/0xd0
common_interrupt+0xf/0xf

This can be eventually be reproduced with the following script:

while :
do
echo 63 > /sys/class/net/<devname>/device/sriov_numvfs
sleep 1
echo 0 > /sys/class/net/<devname>/device/sriov_numvfs
sleep 1
done

Add lock when disabling SR-IOV to prevent process VF mailbox communication.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Linux Linux 3.6 5.4.208

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 linux 5.18.16-1 —
Debian 13 linux 5.18.16-1 —
Debian 12 linux 5.18.16-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS linux-raspi-realtime No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux +1 5.15.0-50.56 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-aws 5.15.0-1021.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure 5.15.0-1021.26 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-azure-fde 5.15.0-1024.30.1 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.15.0-1019.25 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gke 5.15.0-1017.20 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-gkeop 5.15.0-1004.6 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.15.0-1015.17 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg 5.15.0-1017.22 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.15.0-1019.23 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-nvidia 5.15.0-1015.15 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.15.0-1019.24 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.15.0-1016.18 —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS linux-riscv +32 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux 5.4.0-128.144 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws 5.4.0-1086.93 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-aws-5.15 5.15.0-1021.25~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure 5.4.0-1094.100 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-azure-5.15 5.15.0-1021.26~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-bluefield 5.4.0-1047.52 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp 5.4.0-1090.98 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.15 5.15.0-1021.28~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-gke +28 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.15 +1 5.15.0-50.56~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-ibm 5.4.0-1034.38 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-intel-iotg-5.15 5.15.0-1017.22~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-iot 5.4.0-1005.7 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-kvm 5.4.0-1076.81 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle 5.4.0-1084.92 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.15 5.15.0-1019.24~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-raspi 5.4.0-1071.81 —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS linux-riscv-5.15 5.15.0-1022.26~20.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-aws-5.4 5.4.0-1086.93~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-azure-5.4 5.4.0-1094.100~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp +14 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-gcp-5.4 5.4.0-1092.101~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-hwe-5.4 5.4.0-128.144~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-ibm-5.4 5.4.0-1034.38~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-oracle-5.4 5.4.0-1084.92~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS linux-raspi-5.4 5.4.0-1071.81~18.04.1 —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS linux-hwe-edge No fix yet —
Show 10 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro Realtime 22.04 LTS linux-realtime 5.15.0-1022.22 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 20.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-aws-fips 5.4.0-1086.93+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-azure-fips 5.4.0-1094.100+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-fips 5.4.0-1062.70 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 20.04 LTS linux-gcp-fips 5.4.0-1092.101+fips1 —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 18.04 LTS linux-fips +3 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro FIPS-updates 16.04 LTS linux-fips No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS linux +5 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS linux +7 No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS linux +3 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 9 perf +29 5.14.0-162.6.1.el9_1 RHSA-2022:8267
RHEL 8 perf +26 4.18.0-425.3.1.el8 RHSA-2022:7683
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLES 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1.150500.6.47.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +6 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLES 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLES 12 SP5 kernel-syms +2 4.12.14-122.255.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1
Show 12 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1.150500.6.47.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 kernel-docs +4 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 kernel-docs +4 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1.150500.6.47.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150500.13.91.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1176-1
SLE Micro 5.5 kernel-source +1 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Micro 5.4 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.115.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Micro 5.3 kernel-rt +1 5.14.21-150400.15.115.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1183-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-default 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP5 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP5_Update_25 1-150500.11.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-default 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Live Patching 15 SP4 kernel-livepatch-SLE15-SP4_Update_38 1-150400.9.3.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kernel-default 4.12.14-122.255.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1
SLE Live Patching 12 SP5 kgraft-patch-SLE12-SP5_Update_67 1-8.5.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1293-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150500.55.100.1.150500.6.47.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1241-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-64kb +5 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SUSE Manager Server 4.3 kernel-syms +3 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-default-base 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1.150400.24.78.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1
SUSE Manager Proxy 4.3 kernel-syms +2 5.14.21-150400.24.158.1 SUSE-SU-2025:1027-1

Advisories 7

References