CVE-2025-39925
Published: Oct 1, 2025
Modified: May 11, 2026
Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: can: j1939: implement NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler syzbot is reporting unregister_netdevice: waiting for vcan0 to become free. Usage count = 2 problem, for j1939 protocol did not have NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification handler for undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind(). Commit 25fe97cb7620 ("can: j1939: move j1939_priv_put() into sk_destruct callback") expects that a call to j1939_priv_put() can be unconditionally delayed until j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called. But we need to call j1939_priv_put() against an extra ref held by j1939_sk_bind() call (as a part of undoing changes made by j1939_sk_bind()) as soon as NETDEV_UNREGISTER notification fires (i.e. before j1939_sk_sock_destruct() is called via j1939_sk_release()). Otherwise, the extra ref on "struct j1939_priv" held by j1939_sk_bind() call prevents "struct net_device" from dropping the usage count to 1; making it impossible for unregister_netdevice() to continue. [mkl: remove space in front of label]
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
Linux | Linux | affected 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c - < da9e8f429139928570407e8f90559b5d46c20262affected 9d71dd0c70099914fcd063135da3c580865e924c - < 7fcbe5b2c6a4b5407bf2241fdb71e0a390f6ab9a |
Linux | Linux | affected 5.4unaffected 0 - < 5.4unaffected 6.16.8 - <= 6.16.*unaffected 6.17 - <= * |
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