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        "cveId": "CVE-2025-38417",
        "assignerOrgId": "416baaa9-dc9f-4396-8d5f-8c081fb06d67",
        "state": "PUBLISHED",
        "assignerShortName": "Linux",
        "dateReserved": "2025-04-16T04:51:24.014Z",
        "datePublished": "2025-07-25T14:05:41.821Z",
        "dateUpdated": "2026-05-11T21:27:35.027Z"
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                    "lang": "en",
                    "value": "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nice: fix eswitch code memory leak in reset scenario\n\nAdd simple eswitch mode checker in attaching VF procedure and allocate\nrequired port representor memory structures only in switchdev mode.\nThe reset flows triggers VF (if present) detach/attach procedure.\nIt might involve VF port representor(s) re-creation if the device is\nconfigured is switchdev mode (not legacy one).\nThe memory was blindly allocated in current implementation,\nregardless of the mode and not freed if in legacy mode.\n\nKmemeleak trace:\nunreferenced object (percpu) 0x7e3bce5b888458 (size 40):\n  comm \"bash\", pid 1784, jiffies 4295743894\n  hex dump (first 32 bytes on cpu 45):\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................\n  backtrace (crc 0):\n    pcpu_alloc_noprof+0x4c4/0x7c0\n    ice_repr_create+0x66/0x130 [ice]\n    ice_repr_create_vf+0x22/0x70 [ice]\n    ice_eswitch_attach_vf+0x1b/0xa0 [ice]\n    ice_reset_all_vfs+0x1dd/0x2f0 [ice]\n    ice_pci_err_resume+0x3b/0xb0 [ice]\n    pci_reset_function+0x8f/0x120\n    reset_store+0x56/0xa0\n    kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x120/0x1b0\n    vfs_write+0x31c/0x430\n    ksys_write+0x61/0xd0\n    do_syscall_64+0x5b/0x180\n    entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\nTesting hints (ethX is PF netdev):\n- create at least one VF\n    echo 1 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/sriov_numvfs\n- trigger the reset\n    echo 1 > /sys/class/net/ethX/device/reset"
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