CVE-2025-68215

Linux Kernel - Use-After-Free in PTP Cleanup on Driver Removal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ice: fix PTP cleanup on driver removal in error path Improve the cleanup on releasing PTP resources in error path. The error case might happen either at the driver probe and PTP feature initialization or on PTP restart (errors in reset handling, NVM update etc). In both cases, calls to PF PTP cleanup (ice_ptp_cleanup_pf function) and 'ps_lock' mutex deinitialization were missed. Additionally, ptp clock was not unregistered in the latter case. Keep PTP state as 'uninitialized' on init to distinguish between error scenarios and to avoid resource release duplication at driver removal. The consequence of missing ice_ptp_cleanup_pf call is the following call trace dumped when ice_adapter object is freed (port list is not empty, as it is required at this stage): [ T93022] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ T93022] WARNING: CPU: 10 PID: 93022 at ice/ice_adapter.c:67 ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice] ... [ T93022] RIP: 0010:ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice] ... [ T93022] Call Trace: [ T93022] <TASK> [ T93022] ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice 33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c] [ T93022] ? __warn.cold+0xb0/0x10e [ T93022] ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice 33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c] [ T93022] ? report_bug+0xd8/0x150 [ T93022] ? handle_bug+0xe9/0x110 [ T93022] ? exc_invalid_op+0x17/0x70 [ T93022] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 [ T93022] ? ice_adapter_put+0xef/0x100 [ice 33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c] [ T93022] pci_device_remove+0x42/0xb0 [ T93022] device_release_driver_internal+0x19f/0x200 [ T93022] driver_detach+0x48/0x90 [ T93022] bus_remove_driver+0x70/0xf0 [ T93022] pci_unregister_driver+0x42/0xb0 [ T93022] ice_module_exit+0x10/0xdb0 [ice 33d2647ad4f6d866d41eefff1806df37c68aef0c] ... [ T93022] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]--- [ T93022] ice: module unloaded

Scores

EPSS 0.0002
EPSS Percentile 7.1%

Details

Status published
Products (11)
linux/Kernel < 6.12.60linux
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.17.10linux
Linux/Linux < 6.13
Linux/Linux 2f59743be4d9568cad2d9cf697d1b897975421ed - f5eb91f876ebecbcd90f9edcaea98dcb354603b3
Linux/Linux 6.12.11 - 6.12.60
Linux/Linux 6.12.60 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.13
Linux/Linux 6.17.10 - 6.17.*
Linux/Linux 6.18
Linux/Linux e800654e85b5b27966fc6493201f5f8cf658beb6 - 23a5b9b12de9dcd15ebae4f1abc8814ec1c51ab0
... and 1 more
Published Dec 16, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026