CVE-2025-38388

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel - Improper Locking in arm_ffa Notifier Hashtable

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In 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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.5%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-667
Status published
Products (12)
linux/Kernel 6.13.0 - 6.15.6linux
linux/Kernel 6.7.0 - 6.12.37linux
Linux/Linux < 6.7
Linux/Linux 6.12.37 - 6.12.*
Linux/Linux 6.15.6 - 6.15.*
Linux/Linux 6.16
Linux/Linux 6.7
Linux/Linux e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be - 31405510a48dcf054abfa5b7b8d70ce1b27d1f13
Linux/Linux e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be - 8986f8f61b482c0e6efd28f0b2423d9640c20eb1
Linux/Linux e0573444edbf4ee7e3c191d3d08a4ccbd26628be - 9ca7a421229bbdfbe2e1e628cff5cfa782720a10
... and 2 more
Published Jul 25, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026