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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2025-37917

Change History

New CVE Received from kernel.org 5/20/2025 12:15:28 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Added Description

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

net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll

Use spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock
and spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion
occurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in
rx/tx poll.

```
BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0
 lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,
    .owner_cpu: 0
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
    6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT
Hardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)
Call trace:
 show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)
 dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80
 dump_stack+0x18/0x24
 spin_dump+0x78/0x88
 do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120
 _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c
 mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]
 __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140
 handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0
 handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc
 handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58
 generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28
 gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120
 do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84
 el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)
 _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac
 _regmap_read+0x60/0xdc
 regmap_read+0x4c/0x80
 mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]
 __napi_poll+0x38/0x188
 net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0
 handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244
 __do_softirq+0x14/0x20
 ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20
 call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64
 do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40
 __irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c
 irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c
 el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68
 el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24
 el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70
 cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)
 cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
 do_idle+0x1e4/0x260
 cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c
 rest_init+0xdc/0xe0
 console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c
 __primary_switched+0x88/0x90
```
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/6fe0866014486736cc3ba1c6fd4606d3dbe55c9c
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/7cb10f17bddc415f30fbc00a4e2b490e0d94c462
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/8d40bf73fa7f31eac2b0a7c9d85de67df82ee7f3
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/94107259f972d2fd896dbbcaa176b3b2451ff9e5
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/bedd287fdd3142dffad7ae2ac6ef15f4a2ad0629
Added Reference

								
							
							
						
https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d886f8d85494d12b2752fd7c6c32162d982d5dd5