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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-21674" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-01-31T11:25:36.661Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:04:15.154Z" importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:29.455Z" snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"} url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21674" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-21674.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-21674" title: "net/mlx5e: Fix inversion dependency warning while enabling IPsec tunnel" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Fix inversion dependency warning while enabling IPsec tunnel\n\nAttempt to enable IPsec packet offload in tunnel mode in debug kernel\ngenerates the following kernel panic, which is happening due to two\nissues:\n1. In SA add section, the should be _bh() variant when marking SA mode.\n2. There is not needed flush_workqueue in SA delete routine. It is not\nneeded as at this stage as it is removed from SADB and the running work\nwill be canceled later in SA free.\n\n =====================================================\n WARNING: SOFTIRQ-safe -\u003e SOFTIRQ-unsafe lock order detected\n 6.12.0+ #4 Not tainted\n -----------------------------------------------------\n charon/1337 [HC0[0]:SC0[4]:HE1:SE0] is trying to acquire:\n ffff88810f365020 (&xa-\u003exa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: mlx5e_xfrm_del_state+0xca/0x1e0 [mlx5_core]\n\n and this task is already holding:\n ffff88813e0f0d48 (&x-\u003elock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: xfrm_state_delete+0x16/0x30\n which would create a new lock dependency:\n (&x-\u003elock){+.-.}-{3:3} -\u003e (&xa-\u003exa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}\n\n but this new dependency connects a SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock:\n (&x-\u003elock){+.-.}-{3:3}\n\n ... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-safe at:\n lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40\n xfrm_timer_handler+0x91/0xd70\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1dd/0xa60\n hrtimer_run_softirq+0x146/0x2e0\n handle_softirqs+0x266/0x860\n irq_exit_rcu+0x115/0x1a0\n sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6e/0x90\n asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x16/0x20\n default_idle+0x13/0x20\n default_idle_call+0x67/0xa0\n do_idle+0x2da/0x320\n cpu_startup_entry+0x50/0x60\n start_secondary+0x213/0x2a0\n common_startup_64+0x129/0x138\n\n to a SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe lock:\n (&xa-\u003exa_lock#24){+.+.}-{3:3}\n\n ... which became SOFTIRQ-irq-unsafe at:\n ...\n lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520\n _raw_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40\n xa_set_mark+0x70/0x110\n mlx5e_xfrm_add_state+0xe48/0x2290 [mlx5_core]\n xfrm_dev_state_add+0x3bb/0xd70\n xfrm_add_sa+0x2451/0x4a90\n xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x493/0x880\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x12e/0x380\n xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x6d/0x90\n netlink_unicast+0x42f/0x740\n netlink_sendmsg+0x745/0xbe0\n __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190\n __sys_sendto+0x1fe/0x2c0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0\n do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n\n other info that might help us debug this:\n\n Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario:\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n lock(&xa-\u003exa_lock#24);\n local_irq_disable();\n lock(&x-\u003elock);\n lock(&xa-\u003exa_lock#24);\n \u003cInterrupt\u003e\n lock(&x-\u003elock);\n\n *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n 2 locks held by charon/1337:\n #0: ffffffff87f8f858 (&net-\u003exfrm.xfrm_cfg_mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x5e/0x90\n #1: ffff88813e0f0d48 (&x-\u003elock){+.-.}-{3:3}, at: xfrm_state_delete+0x16/0x30\n\n the dependencies between SOFTIRQ-irq-safe lock and the holding lock:\n -\u003e (&x-\u003elock){+.-.}-{3:3} ops: 29 {\n HARDIRQ-ON-W at:\n lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40\n xfrm_alloc_spi+0xc0/0xe60\n xfrm_alloc_userspi+0x5f6/0xbc0\n xfrm_user_rcv_msg+0x493/0x880\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x12e/0x380\n xfrm_netlink_rcv+0x6d/0x90\n netlink_unicast+0x42f/0x740\n netlink_sendmsg+0x745/0xbe0\n __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190\n __sys_sendto+0x1fe/0x2c0\n __x64_sys_sendto+0xdc/0x1b0\n do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n IN-SOFTIRQ-W at:\n lock_acquire+0x1be/0x520\n _raw_spin_lock_bh+0x34/0x40\n xfrm_timer_handler+0x91/0xd70\n __hrtimer_run_queues+0x1dd/0xa60\n \n---truncated---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"87c4417a902151cfe4363166245a3671a08c256c"},{"version":"4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6d3d69c070d920fbb146d73dd3899a50f25d0901"},{"version":"4c24272b4e2befca6ad1409c3c9aaa16c24b1099","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"2c3688090f8a1f085230aa839cc63e4a7b977df0"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.74","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.11","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.13","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}] ## Source licences and attribution CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog (US government work) GitHub Advisory Database: https://github.com/advisories (CC BY 4.0) Have I Been Pwned: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ (CC BY 4.0) CVE Program (CVE records): https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse (CVE Terms of Use) Copyright © 1999-2026, The MITRE Corporation. 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