CVE-2025-71080

Summary

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

ipv6: fix a BUG in rt6_get_pcpu_route() under PREEMPT_RT

On PREEMPT_RT kernels, after rt6_get_pcpu_route() returns NULL, the current task can be preempted. Another task running on the same CPU may then execute rt6_make_pcpu_route() and successfully install a pcpu_rt entry. When the first task resumes execution, its cmpxchg() in rt6_make_pcpu_route() will fail because rt6i_pcpu is no longer NULL, triggering the BUG_ON(prev). It's easy to reproduce it by adding mdelay() after rt6_get_pcpu_route().

Using preempt_disable/enable is not appropriate here because ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() may sleep.

Fix this by handling the cmpxchg() failure gracefully on PREEMPT_RT: free our allocation and return the existing pcpu_rt installed by another task. The BUG_ON is replaced by WARN_ON_ONCE for non-PREEMPT_RT kernels where such races should not occur.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

References

• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1dc33ad0867325f8d2c6d7b2a6f542d4f3121f66
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/787515ccb2292f82eb0876993129154629a49651
• https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1adaea51c61b52e24e7ab38f7d3eba023b2d050d

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