# CVE-2025-38569: benet: fix BUG when creating VFs

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 5.4.297, 5.10.241, 5.15.190, 6.1.148, 6.6.102, and 2 more
- Published: 2025-08-19 · Updated: 2026-05-23

## Affected

- Linux: from 5.4.291, fixed in 5.4.297; from 5.10.235, fixed in 5.10.241; from 5.15.179, fixed in 5.15.190; from 6.1.131, fixed in 6.1.148; from 6.6.83, fixed in 6.6.102; from 6.12.19, fixed in 6.12.42; from 6.13.7, fixed in 6.14
- Linux: 6.14

## Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: benet: fix BUG when creating VFs benet crashes as soon as SRIOV VFs are created: kernel BUG at mm/vmalloc.c:3457! Oops: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI CPU: 4 UID: 0 PID: 7408 Comm: test.sh Kdump: loaded Not tainted 6.16.0+ #1 PREEMPT(voluntary) [...] RIP: 0010:vunmap+0x5f/0x70 [...] Call Trace: <TASK> __iommu_dma_free+0xe8/0x1c0 be_cmd_set_mac_list+0x3fe/0x640 [be2net] be_cmd_set_mac+0xaf/0x110 [be2net] be_vf_eth_addr_config+0x19f/0x330 [be2net] be_vf_setup+0x4f7/0x990 [be2net] be_pci_sriov_configure+0x3a1/0x470 [be2net] sriov_numvfs_store+0x20b/0x380 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x354/0x530 vfs_write+0x9b9/0xf60 ksys_write+0xf3/0x1d0 do_syscall_64+0x8c/0x3d0 be_cmd_set_mac_list() calls dma_free_coherent() under a spin_lock_bh. Fix it by freeing only after the lock has been released.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Linux kernel, upgrade to a fixed version (5.4.297, 5.10.241, 5.15.190, 6.1.148, 6.6.102) per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Linux kernel](https://cve.now/tech/linux-kernel.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/3697e37e012bbd2bb5a5b467689811ba097b2eff
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/975e73b9102d844a3dc3f091ad631c56145c8b4c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f80b34ebc579216407b128e9d155bfcae875c30f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/46d44a23a3723a89deeb65b13cddb17f8d9f2700
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c377ba2be9430d165a98e4b782902ed630bc7546
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0ddfe8b127ef1149fddccb79db6e6eaba7738e7d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d5dc09ee5d74277bc47193fe28ce8703e229331b
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f4e4e0c4bc4d799d6fa39055acdbc3af066cd13e
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/5a40f8af2ba1b9bdf46e2db10e8c9710538fbc63

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