CVE-2025-22061 net: airoha: Fix qid report in airoha_tc_get_htb_get_leaf_queue()

High 7.8 Published 16 Apr 2025 Updated 5 Aug 2026

A bug in the Airoha Ethernet driver causes a kernel warning and potential crash when deleting HTB qdiscs, leading to denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Any signed-in user
Attackable: Local or same network only
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: Available

What is CVE-2025-22061?

CVE-2025-22061 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 16 Apr 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: airoha: Fix qid report in airoha_tc_get_htb_get_leaf_queue()

Fix the following kernel warning deleting HTB offloaded leafs and/or root HTB qdisc in airoha_eth driver properly reporting qid in airoha_tc_get_htb_get_leaf_queue routine.

$tc qdisc replace dev eth1 root handle 10: htb offload $tc class add dev eth1 arent 10: classid 10:4 htb rate 100mbit ceil 100mbit $tc qdisc replace dev eth1 parent 10:4 handle 4: ets bands 8 \ quanta 1514 3028 4542 6056 7570 9084 10598 12112 $tc qdisc del dev eth1 root

[ 55.827864] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 55.832493] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 2678 at 0xffffffc0798695a4 [ 55.956510] CPU: 3 PID: 2678 Comm: tc Tainted: G O 6.6.71 #0 [ 55.963557] Hardware name: Airoha AN7581 Evaluation Board (DT) [ 55.969383] pstate: 20400005 (nzCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO -DIT -SSBS BTYPE=--) [ 55.976344] pc : 0xffffffc0798695a4 [ 55.979851] lr : 0xffffffc079869a20 [ 55.983358] sp : ffffffc0850536a0 [ 55.986665] x29: ffffffc0850536a0 x28: 0000000000000024 x27: 0000000000000001 [ 55.993800] x26: 0000000000000000 x25: ffffff8008b19000 x24: ffffff800222e800 [ 56.000935] x23: 0000000000000001 x22: 0000000000000000 x21: ffffff8008b19000 [ 56.008071] x20: ffffff8002225800 x19: ffffff800379d000 x18: 0000000000000000 [ 56.015206] x17: ffffffbf9ea59000 x16: ffffffc080018000 x15: 0000000000000000 [ 56.022342] x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000000 x12: 0000000000000001 [ 56.029478] x11: ffffffc081471008 x10: ffffffc081575a98 x9 : 0000000000000000 [ 56.036614] x8 : ffffffc08167fd40 x7 : ffffffc08069e104 x6 : ffffff8007f86000 [ 56.043748] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : 0000000000000000 x3 : 0000000000000001 [ 56.050884] x2 : 0000000000000000 x1 : 0000000000000250 x0 : ffffff800222c000 [ 56.058020] Call trace: [ 56.060459] 0xffffffc0798695a4 [ 56.063618] 0xffffffc079869a20 [ 56.066777] __qdisc_destroy+0x40/0xa0 [ 56.070528] qdisc_put+0x54/0x6c [ 56.073748] qdisc_graft+0x41c/0x648 [ 56.077324] tc_get_qdisc+0x168/0x2f8 [ 56.080978] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0x230/0x330 [ 56.085076] netlink_rcv_skb+0x5c/0x128 [ 56.088913] rtnetlink_rcv+0x14/0x1c [ 56.092490] netlink_unicast+0x1e0/0x2c8 [ 56.096413] netlink_sendmsg+0x198/0x3c8 [ 56.100337] ____sys_sendmsg+0x1c4/0x274 [ 56.104261] ___sys_sendmsg+0x7c/0xc0 [ 56.107924] __sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x98 [ 56.111492] __arm64_sys_sendmsg+0x20/0x28 [ 56.115580] invoke_syscall.constprop.0+0x58/0xfc [ 56.120285] do_el0_svc+0x3c/0xbc [ 56.123592] el0_svc+0x18/0x4c [ 56.126647] el0t_64_sync_handler+0x118/0x124 [ 56.131005] el0t_64_sync+0x150/0x154 [ 56.134660] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-22061?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2025-22061?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-22061 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-22061 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BELL-CVE-2025-22061, GHSA-879f-fp4c-q873, ROOT-OS-DEBIAN-13-CVE-2025-22061, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-22061.