CVE-2025-38388

linux: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: firmware: arm_ffa: Replace mutex with rwlock to...

CVE-2025-38388 is fixed in 23 products on 1 platform, first by DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38388, released July 25, 2025. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
5.5
medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0014
3rd percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
bpftool6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
bpftool6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel-livepatch-6.12.37-61.105 · amzn 2023 1:1.0-0.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-aarch64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-debuginfo-common-x86_64 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-headers · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-libbpf-static · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-modules-extra · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-modules-extra-common · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-tools · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
kernel6.12-tools-devel · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
linux · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 6.12.37-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38388 Jul 25, 2025
linux · Debian 14 6.12.37-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2025-38388 Jul 25, 2025
perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
python3-perf6.12 · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025
python3-perf6.12-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:6.12.37-61.105.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2025-1130 Jul 29, 2025

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