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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38628" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-08-22T16:00:36.841Z" updatedAt: "2026-05-11T21:31:54.121Z" 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-2025-38628" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38628.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38628" title: "vdpa/mlx5: Fix release of uninitialized resources on error path" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nvdpa/mlx5: Fix release of uninitialized resources on error path\n\nThe commit in the fixes tag made sure that mlx5_vdpa_free()\nis the single entrypoint for removing the vdpa device resources\nadded in mlx5_vdpa_dev_add(), even in the cleanup path of\nmlx5_vdpa_dev_add().\n\nThis means that all functions from mlx5_vdpa_free() should be able to\nhandle uninitialized resources. This was not the case though:\nmlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr_resources() and mlx5_cmd_cleanup_async_ctx()\nwere not able to do so. This caused the splat below when adding\na vdpa device without a MAC address.\n\nThis patch fixes these remaining issues:\n\n- Makes mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr_resources() return early if called on\n uninitialized resources.\n\n- Moves mlx5_cmd_init_async_ctx() early on during device addition\n because it can't fail. This means that mlx5_cmd_cleanup_async_ctx()\n also can't fail. To mirror this, move the call site of\n mlx5_cmd_cleanup_async_ctx() in mlx5_vdpa_free().\n\nAn additional comment was added in mlx5_vdpa_free() to document\nthe expectations of functions called from this context.\n\nSplat:\n\n mlx5_core 0000:b5:03.2: mlx5_vdpa_dev_add:3950:(pid 2306) warning: No mac address provisioned?\n ------------[ cut here ]------------\n WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 2306 at kernel/workqueue.c:4207 __flush_work+0x9a/0xb0\n [...]\n Call Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n ? __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x61/0x90\n ? __timer_delete_sync+0x2b/0x40\n mlx5_vdpa_destroy_mr_resources+0x1c/0x40 [mlx5_vdpa]\n mlx5_vdpa_free+0x45/0x160 [mlx5_vdpa]\n vdpa_release_dev+0x1e/0x50 [vdpa]\n device_release+0x31/0x90\n kobject_cleanup+0x37/0x130\n mlx5_vdpa_dev_add+0x327/0x890 [mlx5_vdpa]\n vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0x2c1/0x4d0 [vdpa]\n genl_family_rcv_msg_doit+0xd8/0x130\n genl_family_rcv_msg+0x14b/0x220\n ? __pfx_vdpa_nl_cmd_dev_add_set_doit+0x10/0x10 [vdpa]\n genl_rcv_msg+0x47/0xa0\n ? __pfx_genl_rcv_msg+0x10/0x10\n netlink_rcv_skb+0x53/0x100\n genl_rcv+0x24/0x40\n netlink_unicast+0x27b/0x3b0\n netlink_sendmsg+0x1f7/0x430\n __sys_sendto+0x1fa/0x210\n ? ___pte_offset_map+0x17/0x160\n ? next_uptodate_folio+0x85/0x2b0\n ? percpu_counter_add_batch+0x51/0x90\n ? filemap_map_pages+0x515/0x660\n __x64_sys_sendto+0x20/0x30\n do_syscall_64+0x7b/0x2c0\n ? do_read_fault+0x108/0x220\n ? do_pte_missing+0x14a/0x3e0\n ? __handle_mm_fault+0x321/0x730\n ? count_memcg_events+0x13f/0x180\n ? handle_mm_fault+0x1fb/0x2d0\n ? do_user_addr_fault+0x20c/0x700\n ? syscall_exit_work+0x104/0x140\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n RIP: 0033:0x7f0c25b0feca\n [...]\n ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---" affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"83e445e64f48bdae3f25013e788fcf592f142576","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"37f26b9013b46457b0a96633fc3a7dc977d8beb1"},{"version":"83e445e64f48bdae3f25013e788fcf592f142576","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cf4fc23d0d3d5b89b36f0d79f2674510bb574d8e"},{"version":"83e445e64f48bdae3f25013e788fcf592f142576","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6de4ef950dd56a6a81daf92d8a1d864fc6a56971"},{"version":"83e445e64f48bdae3f25013e788fcf592f142576","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"cc51a66815999afb7e9cd845968de4fdf07567b7"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.12","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.12"},{"version":"6.12.42","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.15.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.15.*"},{"version":"6.16.1","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.16.*"},{"version":"6.17","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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