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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5e: Avoid unregistering PSP twice PSP is unregistered twice in: _mlx5e_remove -> mlx5e_psp_unregister mlx5e_nic_cleanup -> mlx5e_psp_unregister This leads to a refcount underflow in some conditions: ------------[ cut here ]------------ refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free. WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1694 at lib/refcount.c:28 refcount_warn_saturate+0xd8/0xe0 [...] mlx5e_psp_unregister+0x26/0x50 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_nic_cleanup+0x26/0x90 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_remove+0xe6/0x1f0 [mlx5_core] auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30 device_release_driver_internal+0x194/0x1f0 bus_remove_device+0xc6/0x130 device_del+0x159/0x3c0 mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked+0xbc/0x2a0 [mlx5_core] [...] Do not directly remove psp from the _mlx5e_remove path, the PSP cleanup happens as part of profile cleanup.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-24 | Published 2026-01-13 | Updated 2026-02-09 | Assigner Linux

Product status

Default status
unaffected

89ee2d92f66c45625ff1c173df2dbdea32568c5d (git) before e12c912f92ccea671b514caf371f28485714bb4b
affected

89ee2d92f66c45625ff1c173df2dbdea32568c5d (git) before 35e93736f69963337912594eb3951ab320b77521
affected

Default status
affected

6.18
affected

Any version before 6.18
unaffected

6.18.3 (semver)
unaffected

6.19 (original_commit_for_fix)
unaffected

References

git.kernel.org/...c/e12c912f92ccea671b514caf371f28485714bb4b

git.kernel.org/...c/35e93736f69963337912594eb3951ab320b77521

cve.org (CVE-2025-68779)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-68779)

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