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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-40250"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-12-04T16:08:12.984Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T22:02:41.655Z"
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-2025-40250"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-40250.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40250"
title: "net/mlx5: Clean up only new IRQ glue on request_irq() failure"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5: Clean up only new IRQ glue on request_irq() failure\n\nThe mlx5_irq_alloc() function can inadvertently free the entire rmap\nand end up in a crash[1] when the other threads tries to access this,\nwhen request_irq() fails due to exhausted IRQ vectors. This commit\nmodifies the cleanup to remove only the specific IRQ mapping that was\njust added.\n\nThis prevents removal of other valid mappings and ensures precise\ncleanup of the failed IRQ allocation's associated glue object.\n\nNote: This error is observed when both fwctl and rds configs are enabled.\n\n[1]\nmlx5_core 0000:05:00.0: Successfully registered panic handler for port 1\nmlx5_core 0000:05:00.0: mlx5_irq_alloc:293:(pid 66740): Failed to\nrequest irq. err = -28\ninfiniband mlx5_0: mlx5_ib_test_wc:290:(pid 66740): Error -28 while\ntrying to test write-combining support\nmlx5_core 0000:05:00.0: Successfully unregistered panic handler for port 1\nmlx5_core 0000:06:00.0: Successfully registered panic handler for port 1\nmlx5_core 0000:06:00.0: mlx5_irq_alloc:293:(pid 66740): Failed to\nrequest irq. err = -28\ninfiniband mlx5_0: mlx5_ib_test_wc:290:(pid 66740): Error -28 while\ntrying to test write-combining support\nmlx5_core 0000:06:00.0: Successfully unregistered panic handler for port 1\nmlx5_core 0000:03:00.0: mlx5_irq_alloc:293:(pid 28895): Failed to\nrequest irq. err = -28\nmlx5_core 0000:05:00.0: mlx5_irq_alloc:293:(pid 28895): Failed to\nrequest irq. err = -28\ngeneral protection fault, probably for non-canonical address\n0xe277a58fde16f291: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI\n\nRIP: 0010:free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x23/0x7d\nCall Trace:\n   \u003cTASK\u003e\n   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1d6/0x2f9\n   ? show_trace_log_lvl+0x1d6/0x2f9\n   ? mlx5_irq_alloc.cold+0x5d/0xf3 [mlx5_core]\n   ? __die_body.cold+0x8/0xa\n   ? die_addr+0x39/0x53\n   ? exc_general_protection+0x1c4/0x3e9\n   ? dev_vprintk_emit+0x5f/0x90\n   ? asm_exc_general_protection+0x22/0x27\n   ? free_irq_cpu_rmap+0x23/0x7d\n   mlx5_irq_alloc.cold+0x5d/0xf3 [mlx5_core]\n   irq_pool_request_vector+0x7d/0x90 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5_irq_request+0x2e/0xe0 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5_irq_request_vector+0xad/0xf7 [mlx5_core]\n   comp_irq_request_pci+0x64/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n   create_comp_eq+0x71/0x385 [mlx5_core]\n   ? mlx5e_open_xdpsq+0x11c/0x230 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5_comp_eqn_get+0x72/0x90 [mlx5_core]\n   ? xas_load+0x8/0x91\n   mlx5_comp_irqn_get+0x40/0x90 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5e_open_channel+0x7d/0x3c7 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5e_open_channels+0xad/0x250 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5e_open_locked+0x3e/0x110 [mlx5_core]\n   mlx5e_open+0x23/0x70 [mlx5_core]\n   __dev_open+0xf1/0x1a5\n   __dev_change_flags+0x1e1/0x249\n   dev_change_flags+0x21/0x5c\n   do_setlink+0x28b/0xcc4\n   ? __nla_parse+0x22/0x3d\n   ? inet6_validate_link_af+0x6b/0x108\n   ? cpumask_next+0x1f/0x35\n   ? __snmp6_fill_stats64.constprop.0+0x66/0x107\n   ? __nla_validate_parse+0x48/0x1e6\n   __rtnl_newlink+0x5ff/0xa57\n   ? kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x164/0x2ce\n   rtnl_newlink+0x44/0x6e\n   rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x2bb/0x362\n   ? __netlink_sendskb+0x4c/0x6c\n   ? netlink_unicast+0x28f/0x2ce\n   ? rtnl_calcit.isra.0+0x150/0x146\n   netlink_rcv_skb+0x5f/0x112\n   netlink_unicast+0x213/0x2ce\n   netlink_sendmsg+0x24f/0x4d9\n   __sock_sendmsg+0x65/0x6a\n   ____sys_sendmsg+0x28f/0x2c9\n   ? import_iovec+0x17/0x2b\n   ___sys_sendmsg+0x97/0xe0\n   __sys_sendmsg+0x81/0xd8\n   do_syscall_64+0x35/0x87\n   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x0\nRIP: 0033:0x7fc328603727\nCode: c3 66 90 41 54 41 89 d4 55 48 89 f5 53 89 fb 48 83 ec 10 e8 0b ed\nff ff 44 89 e2 48 89 ee 89 df 41 89 c0 b8 2e 00 00 00 0f 05 \u003c48\u003e 3d 00\nf0 ff ff 77 35 44 89 c7 48 89 44 24 08 e8 44 ed ff ff 48\nRSP: 002b:00007ffe8eb3f1a0 EFLAGS: 00000293 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002e\nRAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 000000000000000d RCX: 00007fc328603727\nRDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00007ffe8eb3f1f0 RDI: 000000000000000d\nRBP: 00007ffe8eb3f1f0 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000\nR10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000293 R12: 0000000000000000\nR13: 00000000000\n---truncated---"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"3354822cde5a9f72aa725b3c619188b149a71a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"69e043bce09c9a77e5f55b9ac7505874a2a1a9f0"},{"version":"3354822cde5a9f72aa725b3c619188b149a71a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6ebd02cf2dde11b86f89ea4c9f55179eab30d4ee"},{"version":"3354822cde5a9f72aa725b3c619188b149a71a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"4d6b4bea8b80bfa13c903ba547538249e7c5e977"},{"version":"3354822cde5a9f72aa725b3c619188b149a71a33","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d47515af6cccd7484d8b0870376858c9848a18ec"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.4"},{"version":"6.6.118","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.60","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.17.10","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.17.*"},{"version":"6.18","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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