CVE-2025-71096

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

RDMA/core: Check for the presence of LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID correctly

The netlink response for RDMA_NL_LS_OP_IP_RESOLVE should always have a LS_NLA_TYPE_DGID attribute, it is invalid if it does not.

Use the nl parsing logic properly and call nla_parse_deprecated() to fill the nlattrs array and then directly index that array to get the data for the DGID. Just fail if it is NULL.

Remove the for loop searching for the nla, and squash the validation and parsing into one function.

Fixes an uninitialized read from the stack triggered by userspace if it does not provide the DGID to a kernel initiated RDMA_NL_LS_OP_IP_RESOLVE query.

BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
BUG: KMSAN: uninit-value in ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
 hex_byte_pack include/linux/hex.h:13 [inline]
 ip6_string+0xef4/0x13a0 lib/vsprintf.c:1490
 ip6_addr_string+0x18a/0x3e0 lib/vsprintf.c:1509
 ip_addr_string+0x245/0xee0 lib/vsprintf.c:1633
 pointer+0xc09/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2542
 vsnprintf+0xf8a/0x1bd0 lib/vsprintf.c:2930
 vprintk_store+0x3ae/0x1530 kernel/printk/printk.c:2279
 vprintk_emit+0x307/0xcd0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2426
 vprintk_default+0x3f/0x50 kernel/printk/printk.c:2465
 vprintk+0x36/0x50 kernel/printk/printk_safe.c:82
 _printk+0x17e/0x1b0 kernel/printk/printk.c:2475
 ib_nl_process_good_ip_rsep drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:128 [inline]
 ib_nl_handle_ip_res_resp+0x963/0x9d0 drivers/infiniband/core/addr.c:141
 rdma_nl_rcv_msg drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:-1 [inline]
 rdma_nl_rcv_skb drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:239 [inline]
 rdma_nl_rcv+0xefa/0x11c0 drivers/infiniband/core/netlink.c:259
 netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
 netlink_unicast+0xf04/0x12b0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
 netlink_sendmsg+0x10b3/0x1250 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
 sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
 __sock_sendmsg+0x333/0x3d0 net/socket.c:729
 ____sys_sendmsg+0x7e0/0xd80 net/socket.c:2617
 ___sys_sendmsg+0x271/0x3b0 net/socket.c:2671
 __sys_sendmsg+0x1aa/0x300 net/socket.c:2703
 __compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:346 [inline]
 __do_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:353 [inline]
 __se_compat_sys_sendmsg net/compat.c:350 [inline]
 __ia32_compat_sys_sendmsg+0xa4/0x100 net/compat.c:350
 ia32_sys_call+0x3f6c/0x4310 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:371
 do_syscall_32_irqs_on arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:83 [inline]
 __do_fast_syscall_32+0xb0/0x150 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:306
 do_fast_syscall_32+0x38/0x80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:331
 do_SYSENTER_32+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/syscall_32.c:3

Affected Software

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b948afc1ded88b3562c893114387f34389eeb94
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/376f46c8983458ead26cac83aa897a0b78491831
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/45532638de5da24c201aa2a9b3dd4b054064de7b
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9d85524789c2f17c0e87de8d596bcccc3683a1fc
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/a7b8e876e0ef0232b8076972c57ce9a7286b47ca
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/acadd4097d25d6bd472bcb3f9f3eba2b5105d1ec
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bfe10318fc23e0b3f1d0a18dad387d29473a624d