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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38020"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-06-18T09:28:27.674Z"
updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:19:45.769Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
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-2025-38020"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38020.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38020"
title: "net/mlx5e: Disable MACsec offload for uplink representor profile"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Disable MACsec offload for uplink representor profile\n\nMACsec offload is not supported in switchdev mode for uplink\nrepresentors. When switching to the uplink representor profile, the\nMACsec offload feature must be cleared from the netdevice's features.\n\nIf left enabled, attempts to add offloads result in a null pointer\ndereference, as the uplink representor does not support MACsec offload\neven though the feature bit remains set.\n\nClear NETIF_F_HW_MACSEC in mlx5e_fix_uplink_rep_features().\n\nKernel log:\n\nOops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc000000000f: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN\nKASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000078-0x000000000000007f]\nCPU: 29 UID: 0 PID: 4714 Comm: ip Not tainted 6.14.0-rc4_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_02_17_35 #1\nHardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014\nRIP: 0010:__mutex_lock+0x128/0x1dd0\nCode: d0 7c 08 84 d2 0f 85 ad 15 00 00 8b 35 91 5c fe 03 85 f6 75 29 49 8d 7e 60 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df 48 89 fa 48 c1 ea 03 \u003c80\u003e 3c 02 00 0f 85 a6 15 00 00 4d 3b 76 60 0f 85 fd 0b 00 00 65 ff\nRSP: 0018:ffff888147a4f160 EFLAGS: 00010206\nRAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000001\nRDX: 000000000000000f RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000078\nRBP: ffff888147a4f2e0 R08: ffffffffa05d2c19 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: dffffc0000000000 R14: 0000000000000018 R15: ffff888152de0000\nFS:  00007f855e27d800(0000) GS:ffff88881ee80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000\nCS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033\nCR2: 00000000004e5768 CR3: 000000013ae7c005 CR4: 0000000000372eb0\nDR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000\nDR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe07f0 DR7: 0000000000000400\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? die_addr+0x3d/0xa0\n ? exc_general_protection+0x144/0x220\n ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x30\n ? mlx5e_macsec_add_secy+0xf9/0x700 [mlx5_core]\n ? __mutex_lock+0x128/0x1dd0\n ? lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn+0x190/0x190\n ? mlx5e_macsec_add_secy+0xf9/0x700 [mlx5_core]\n ? mutex_lock_io_nested+0x1ae0/0x1ae0\n ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x530\n ? macsec_upd_offload+0x145/0x380\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400\n ? kasan_save_stack+0x30/0x40\n ? kasan_save_stack+0x20/0x40\n ? kasan_save_track+0x10/0x30\n ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x77/0x90\n ? __kmalloc_noprof+0x249/0x6b0\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.constprop.0+0xb5/0x240\n ? mlx5e_macsec_add_secy+0xf9/0x700 [mlx5_core]\n mlx5e_macsec_add_secy+0xf9/0x700 [mlx5_core]\n ? mlx5e_macsec_add_rxsa+0x11a0/0x11a0 [mlx5_core]\n macsec_update_offload+0x26c/0x820\n ? macsec_set_mac_address+0x4b0/0x4b0\n ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400\n ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x50\n macsec_upd_offload+0x2c8/0x380\n ? macsec_update_offload+0x820/0x820\n ? __nla_parse+0x22/0x30\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.constprop.0+0x15e/0x240\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0x1cc/0x2a0\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_attrs_parse.constprop.0+0x240/0x240\n ? cap_capable+0xd4/0x330\n genl_rcv_msg+0x3ea/0x670\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x2a0/0x2a0\n ? lockdep_set_lock_cmp_fn+0x190/0x190\n ? macsec_update_offload+0x820/0x820\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x12b/0x390\n ? genl_family_rcv_msg_dumpit+0x2a0/0x2a0\n ? netlink_ack+0xd80/0xd80\n ? rwsem_down_read_slowpath+0xf90/0xf90\n ? netlink_deliver_tap+0xcd/0xac0\n ? netlink_deliver_tap+0x155/0xac0\n ? _copy_from_iter+0x1bb/0x12c0\n genl_rcv+0x24/0x40\n netlink_unicast+0x440/0x700\n ? netlink_attachskb+0x760/0x760\n ? lock_acquire+0x1c2/0x530\n ? __might_fault+0xbb/0x170\n netlink_sendmsg+0x749/0xc10\n ? netlink_unicast+0x700/0x700\n ? __might_fault+0xbb/0x170\n ? netlink_unicast+0x700/0x700\n __sock_sendmsg+0xc5/0x190\n ____sys_sendmsg+0x53f/0x760\n ? import_iovec+0x7/0x10\n ? kernel_sendmsg+0x30/0x30\n ? __copy_msghdr+0x3c0/0x3c0\n ? filter_irq_stacks+0x90/0x90\n ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x28/0xa30\n ___sys_sen\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"8ff0ac5be1446920d71bdce5547f0d8476e280ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1e577aeb51e9deba4f2c10edfcb07cb3cb406598"},{"version":"8ff0ac5be1446920d71bdce5547f0d8476e280ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"b48a47e137cedfd79655accaeeea6b296ad0b9e1"},{"version":"8ff0ac5be1446920d71bdce5547f0d8476e280ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1f80e6ff026041721d8089da8c269b1963628325"},{"version":"8ff0ac5be1446920d71bdce5547f0d8476e280ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"1a69d53922c1221351739f17837d38e317234e5d"},{"version":"8ff0ac5be1446920d71bdce5547f0d8476e280ff","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"588431474eb7572e57a927fa8558c9ba2f8af143"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.1"},{"version":"6.1.140","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.92","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.30","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.8","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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