CVE-2025-38388

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n the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_ffa: Replace mutex with rwlock to avoid sleep in atomic context The current use of a mutex to protect the notifier hashtable accesses can lead to issues in the atomic context. It results in the below kernel warnings: | BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:258 | in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/0:0 | preempt_count: 1, expected: 0 | RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 | CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.14.0 #4 | Workqueue: ffa_pcpu_irq_notification notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn | Call trace: | show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C) | dump_stack_lvl+0x78/0x90 | dump_stack+0x18/0x24 | __might_resched+0x114/0x170 | __might_sleep+0x48/0x98 | mutex_lock+0x24/0x80 | handle_notif_callbacks+0x54/0xe0 | notif_get_and_handle+0x40/0x88 | generic_exec_single+0x80/0xc0 | smp_call_function_single+0xfc/0x1a0 | notif_pcpu_irq_work_fn+0x2c/0x38 | process_one_work+0x14c/0x2b4 | worker_thread+0x2e4/0x3e0 | kthread+0x13c/0x210 | ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20 To address this, replace the mutex with an rwlock to protect the notifier hashtable accesses. This ensures that read-side locking does not sleep and multiple readers can acquire the lock concurrently, avoiding unnecessary contention and potential deadlocks. Writer access remains exclusive, preserving correctness. This change resolves warnings from lockdep about potential sleep in atomic context.

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cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

19 Nov 2025, 20:10

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time Linux linux Kernel
Linux
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.16:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.5
CWE CWE-667
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31405510a48dcf054abfa5b7b8d70ce1b27d1f13 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/31405510a48dcf054abfa5b7b8d70ce1b27d1f13 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8986f8f61b482c0e6efd28f0b2423d9640c20eb1 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8986f8f61b482c0e6efd28f0b2423d9640c20eb1 - Patch
References () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca7a421229bbdfbe2e1e628cff5cfa782720a10 - () https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9ca7a421229bbdfbe2e1e628cff5cfa782720a10 - Patch

25 Jul 2025, 15:29

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-07-25 13:15

Updated : 2025-11-19 20:10


NVD link : CVE-2025-38388

Mitre link : CVE-2025-38388

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-38388


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Products Affected
CWE
CWE-667

Improper Locking