{"id":"CVE-2024-50146","summary":"net/mlx5e: Don't call cleanup on profile rollback failure","details":"In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet/mlx5e: Don't call cleanup on profile rollback failure\n\nWhen profile rollback fails in mlx5e_netdev_change_profile, the netdev\nprofile var is left set to NULL. Avoid a crash when unloading the driver\nby not calling profile-\u003ecleanup in such a case.\n\nThis was encountered while testing, with the original trigger that\nthe wq rescuer thread creation got interrupted (presumably due to\nCtrl+C-ing modprobe), which gets converted to ENOMEM (-12) by\nmlx5e_priv_init, the profile rollback also fails for the same reason\n(signal still active) so the profile is left as NULL, leading to a crash\nlater in _mlx5e_remove.\n\n [  732.473932] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: E-Switch: Unload vfs: mode(OFFLOADS), nvfs(2), necvfs(0), active vports(2)\n [  734.525513] workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\n [  734.557372] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6235:(pid 6086): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\n [  734.559187] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 eth3: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: new profile init failed, -12\n [  734.560153] workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq \"mlx5e\": -EINTR\n [  734.589378] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1: mlx5e_netdev_init_profile:6235:(pid 6086): mlx5e_priv_init failed, err=-12\n [  734.591136] mlx5_core 0000:08:00.1 eth3: mlx5e_netdev_change_profile: failed to rollback to orig profile, -12\n [  745.537492] BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 0000000000000008\n [  745.538222] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode\n\u003csnipped\u003e\n [  745.551290] Call Trace:\n [  745.551590]  \u003cTASK\u003e\n [  745.551866]  ? __die+0x20/0x60\n [  745.552218]  ? page_fault_oops+0x150/0x400\n [  745.555307]  ? exc_page_fault+0x79/0x240\n [  745.555729]  ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x22/0x30\n [  745.556166]  ? mlx5e_remove+0x6b/0xb0 [mlx5_core]\n [  745.556698]  auxiliary_bus_remove+0x18/0x30\n [  745.557134]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1df/0x240\n [  745.557654]  bus_remove_device+0xd7/0x140\n [  745.558075]  device_del+0x15b/0x3c0\n [  745.558456]  mlx5_rescan_drivers_locked.part.0+0xb1/0x2f0 [mlx5_core]\n [  745.559112]  mlx5_unregister_device+0x34/0x50 [mlx5_core]\n [  745.559686]  mlx5_uninit_one+0x46/0xf0 [mlx5_core]\n [  745.560203]  remove_one+0x4e/0xd0 [mlx5_core]\n [  745.560694]  pci_device_remove+0x39/0xa0\n [  745.561112]  device_release_driver_internal+0x1df/0x240\n [  745.561631]  driver_detach+0x47/0x90\n [  745.562022]  bus_remove_driver+0x84/0x100\n [  745.562444]  pci_unregister_driver+0x3b/0x90\n [  745.562890]  mlx5_cleanup+0xc/0x1b [mlx5_core]\n [  745.563415]  __x64_sys_delete_module+0x14d/0x2f0\n [  745.563886]  ? kmem_cache_free+0x1b0/0x460\n [  745.564313]  ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xe2/0x190\n [  745.564825]  do_syscall_64+0x6d/0x140\n [  745.565223]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53\n [  745.565725] RIP: 0033:0x7f1579b1288b","modified":"2026-04-02T12:21:18.485847Z","published":"2024-11-07T09:31:23.123Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2024:4314-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4315-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4316-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4318-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4364-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4376-1","SUSE-SU-2024:4387-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20163-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20164-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20246-1","SUSE-SU-2025:20247-1","USN-7276-1","USN-7277-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:14500-1","openSUSE-SU-2025:14705-1"],"database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"Linux","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50146.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3955b77494c3c7d14873b1db67e7e00c46a714db"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4dbc1d1a9f39c3711ad2a40addca04d07d9ab5d0"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d6fe973c8873c998734a050f366b28facc03d32a"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/db84cb4c8c565e6d4de84b23c2818b63991adfdd"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00001.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/50xxx/CVE-2024-50146.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50146"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git","events":[{"introduced":"3ef14e463f6ed0218710f56b97e1a7d0448784d2"},{"fixed":"db84cb4c8c565e6d4de84b23c2818b63991adfdd"},{"fixed":"d6fe973c8873c998734a050f366b28facc03d32a"},{"fixed":"3955b77494c3c7d14873b1db67e7e00c46a714db"},{"fixed":"4dbc1d1a9f39c3711ad2a40addca04d07d9ab5d0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-50146.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}