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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-22111" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-04-16T14:12:57.719Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:05:36.297Z" 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-2025-22111" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-22111.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-22111" title: "net: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF." summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: Remove RTNL dance for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.\n\nSIOCBRDELIF is passed to dev_ioctl() first and later forwarded to\nbr_ioctl_call(), which causes unnecessary RTNL dance and the splat\nbelow [0] under RTNL pressure.\n\nLet's say Thread A is trying to detach a device from a bridge and\nThread B is trying to remove the bridge.\n\nIn dev_ioctl(), Thread A bumps the bridge device's refcnt by\nnetdev_hold() and releases RTNL because the following br_ioctl_call()\nalso re-acquires RTNL.\n\nIn the race window, Thread B could acquire RTNL and try to remove\nthe bridge device. Then, rtnl_unlock() by Thread B will release RTNL\nand wait for netdev_put() by Thread A.\n\nThread A, however, must hold RTNL after the unlock in dev_ifsioc(),\nwhich may take long under RTNL pressure, resulting in the splat by\nThread B.\n\n Thread A (SIOCBRDELIF) Thread B (SIOCBRDELBR)\n ---------------------- ----------------------\n sock_ioctl sock_ioctl\n `- sock_do_ioctl `- br_ioctl_call\n `- dev_ioctl `- br_ioctl_stub\n |- rtnl_lock |\n |- dev_ifsioc '\n ' |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)\n |- netdev_hold(dev, ...) .\n / |- rtnl_unlock ------. |\n | |- br_ioctl_call `---\u003e |- rtnl_lock\n Race | | `- br_ioctl_stub |- br_del_bridge\n Window | | | |- dev = __dev_get_by_name(...)\n | | | May take long | `- br_dev_delete(dev, ...)\n | | | under RTNL pressure | `- unregister_netdevice_queue(dev, ...)\n | | | | `- rtnl_unlock\n \\ | |- rtnl_lock \u003c-' `- netdev_run_todo\n | |- ... `- netdev_run_todo\n | `- rtnl_unlock |- __rtnl_unlock\n | |- netdev_wait_allrefs_any\n |- netdev_put(dev, ...) \u003c----------------'\n Wait refcnt decrement\n and log splat below\n\nTo avoid blocking SIOCBRDELBR unnecessarily, let's not call\ndev_ioctl() for SIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF.\n\nIn the dev_ioctl() path, we do the following:\n\n 1. Copy struct ifreq by get_user_ifreq in sock_do_ioctl()\n 2. Check CAP_NET_ADMIN in dev_ioctl()\n 3. Call dev_load() in dev_ioctl()\n 4. Fetch the master dev from ifr.ifr_name in dev_ifsioc()\n\n3. can be done by request_module() in br_ioctl_call(), so we move\n1., 2., and 4. to br_ioctl_stub().\n\nNote that 2. is also checked later in add_del_if(), but it's better\nperformed before RTNL.\n\nSIOCBRADDIF and SIOCBRDELIF have been processed in dev_ioctl() since\nthe pre-git era, and there seems to be no specific reason to process\nthem there.\n\n[0]:\nunregister_netdevice: waiting for wpan3 to become free. Usage count = 2\nref_tracker: wpan3@ffff8880662d8608 has 1/1 users at\n __netdev_tracker_alloc include/linux/netdevice.h:4282 [inline]\n netdev_hold include/linux/netdevice.h:4311 [inline]\n dev_ifsioc+0xc6a/0x1160 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:624\n dev_ioctl+0x255/0x10c0 net/core/dev_ioctl.c:826\n sock_do_ioctl+0x1ca/0x260 net/socket.c:1213\n sock_ioctl+0x23a/0x6c0 net/socket.c:1318\n vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]\n __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:906 [inline]\n __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:892 [inline]\n __x64_sys_ioctl+0x1a4/0x210 fs/ioctl.c:892\n do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]\n do_syscall_64+0xcb/0x250 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"f51e471cb1577d510c3096e126678e1ea20d2efd"},{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"338a0f3c66aef4ee13052880d02200aae8f2d8a8"},{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d767ce15045df510f55cdd2af5df0eee71f928d0"},{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4888e1dcc341e9a132ef7b8516234b3c3296de56"},{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"00fe0ac64efd1f5373b3dd9f1f84b19235371e39"},{"version":"893b195875340cb44b54c9db99e708145f1210e8","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"ed3ba9b6e280e14cc3148c1b226ba453f02fa76c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"5.15","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"5.15"},{"version":"5.15.198","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"5.15.*"},{"version":"6.1.160","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.120","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.65","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.2","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","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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