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.
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History
25 Jul 2025, 13:15
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
|---|---|---|
| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2025-07-25 13:15
Updated : 2025-07-25 15:29
NVD link : CVE-2025-38388
Mitre link : CVE-2025-38388
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-38388
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CWE
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