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In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been...

Unreviewed Published Jul 25, 2025 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 25, 2025

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

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

RDMA/mlx5: Fix unsafe xarray access in implicit ODP handling

__xa_store() and __xa_erase() were used without holding the proper lock,
which led to a lockdep warning due to unsafe RCU usage. This patch
replaces them with xa_store() and xa_erase(), which perform the necessary
locking internally.

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WARNING: suspicious RCPU usage
6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1 Not tainted

./include/linux/xarray.h:1211 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!

other info that might help us debug this:

rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by kworker/u136:0/219:
at: process_one_work+0xbe4/0x15f0
process_one_work+0x75c/0x15f0
pagefault_mr+0x9a5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]

stack backtrace:
CPU: 14 UID: 0 PID: 219 Comm: kworker/u136:0 Not tainted
6.14.0-rc7_for_upstream_debug_2025_03_18_15_01 #1
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS
rel-1.16.0-0-gd239552ce722-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Workqueue: mlx5_ib_page_fault mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action [mlx5_ib]
Call Trace:
dump_stack_lvl+0xa8/0xc0
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x1e6/0x260
xas_create+0xb8a/0xee0
xas_store+0x73/0x14c0
__xa_store+0x13c/0x220
? xa_store_range+0x390/0x390
? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0
pagefault_mr+0xcb5/0x1390 [mlx5_ib]
? _raw_spin_unlock+0x1f/0x30
mlx5_ib_eqe_pf_action+0x3be/0x2620 [mlx5_ib]
? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x400/0x400
? mlx5_ib_invalidate_range+0xcb0/0xcb0 [mlx5_ib]
process_one_work+0x7db/0x15f0
? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0xda0/0xda0
? assign_work+0x168/0x240
worker_thread+0x57d/0xcd0
? rescuer_thread+0xc40/0xc40
kthread+0x3b3/0x800
? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
? lock_downgrade+0x680/0x680
? do_raw_spin_lock+0x12d/0x270
? spin_bug+0x1d0/0x1d0
? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x284/0x9e0
? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0x284/0x400
? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
ret_from_fork+0x2d/0x70
? kthread_is_per_cpu+0xb0/0xb0
ret_from_fork_asm+0x11/0x20

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 25, 2025
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 25, 2025
Last updated Jul 25, 2025

Severity

Unknown

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2025-38372

GHSA ID

GHSA-6gw9-2x6r-hqw8

Source code

No known source code

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