# CVE-2025-40357: net/smc: fix general protection fault in __smc_diag_dump

> A local attacker can trigger a general protection fault in the Linux kernel's SMC diagnostic dump, causing a system crash.

- **Severity:** Not scored
- **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:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Dec 2025
- **Updated:** 11 May 2026
- **Also known as:** BELL-CVE-2025-40357, DEBIAN-CVE-2025-40357, GHSA-fj46-x93r-g8xj, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40357

## What is CVE-2025-40357?

CVE-2025-40357 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 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/smc: fix general protection fault in __smc_diag_dump

The syzbot report a crash:

  Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xfbd5a5d5a0000003: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
  KASAN: maybe wild-memory-access in range [0xdead4ead00000018-0xdead4ead0000001f]
  CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6949 Comm: syz.0.335 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full)
  Hardware name: Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 08/18/2025
  RIP: 0010:smc_diag_msg_common_fill net/smc/smc_diag.c:44 [inline]
  RIP: 0010:__smc_diag_dump.constprop.0+0x3ca/0x2550 net/smc/smc_diag.c:89
  Call Trace:
   <TASK>
   smc_diag_dump_proto+0x26d/0x420 net/smc/smc_diag.c:217
   smc_diag_dump+0x27/0x90 net/smc/smc_diag.c:234
   netlink_dump+0x539/0xd30 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2327
   __netlink_dump_start+0x6d6/0x990 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2442
   netlink_dump_start include/linux/netlink.h:341 [inline]
   smc_diag_handler_dump+0x1f9/0x240 net/smc/smc_diag.c:251
   __sock_diag_cmd net/core/sock_diag.c:249 [inline]
   sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x438/0x790 net/core/sock_diag.c:285
   netlink_rcv_skb+0x158/0x420 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:2552
   netlink_unicast_kernel net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1320 [inline]
   netlink_unicast+0x5a7/0x870 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1346
   netlink_sendmsg+0x8d1/0xdd0 net/netlink/af_netlink.c:1896
   sock_sendmsg_nosec net/socket.c:714 [inline]
   __sock_sendmsg net/socket.c:729 [inline]
   ____sys_sendmsg+0xa95/0xc70 net/socket.c:2614
   ___sys_sendmsg+0x134/0x1d0 net/socket.c:2668
   __sys_sendmsg+0x16d/0x220 net/socket.c:2700
   do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
   do_syscall_64+0xcd/0x4e0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
   entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
   </TASK>

The process like this:

               (CPU1)              |             (CPU2)
  ---------------------------------|-------------------------------
  inet_create()                    |
    // init clcsock to NULL        |
    sk = sk_alloc()                |
                                   |
    // unexpectedly change clcsock |
    inet_init_csk_locks()          |
                                   |
    // add sk to hash table        |
    smc_inet_init_sock()           |
      smc_sk_init()                |
        smc_hash_sk()              |
                                   | // traverse the hash table
                                   | smc_diag_dump_proto
                                   |   __smc_diag_dump()
                                   |     // visit wrong clcsock
                                   |     smc_diag_msg_common_fill()
    // alloc clcsock               |
    smc_create_clcsk               |
      sock_create_kern             |

With CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y, the smc->clcsock is unexpectedly changed
in inet_init_csk_locks(). The INET_PROTOSW_ICSK flag is no need by smc,
just remove it.

After removing the INET_PROTOSW_ICSK flag, this patch alse revert
commit 6fd27ea183c2 ("net/smc: fix lacks of icsk_syn_mss with IPPROTO_SMC")
to avoid casting smc_sock to inet_connection_sock.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-40357?


## How do I fix CVE-2025-40357?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-40357 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40357 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-40357 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-40357 is a vulnerability in Linux, published on 16 Dec 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-40357 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Linux. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40357/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40357/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40357
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-40357
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-40357

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-40357/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.