CVE-2025-38374

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-38374
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-38374.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-38374
Downstream
Published
2025-07-25T13:15:26Z
Modified
2025-07-25T16:00:22Z
Summary
[none]
Details

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

optee: ffa: fix sleep in atomic context

The OP-TEE driver registers the function notif_callback() for FF-A notifications. However, this function is called in an atomic context leading to errors like this when processing asynchronous notifications:

| BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:258 | inatomic(): 1, irqsdisabled(): 1, nonblock: 0, pid: 9, name: kworker/0:0 | preemptcount: 1, expected: 0 | RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0 | CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 9 Comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 6.14.0-00019-g657536ebe0aa #13 | Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) | Workqueue: ffapcpuirqnotification notifpcpuirqworkfn | Call trace: | showstack+0x18/0x24 (C) | dumpstacklvl+0x78/0x90 | dumpstack+0x18/0x24 | _mightresched+0x114/0x170 | _mightsleep+0x48/0x98 | mutexlock+0x24/0x80 | opteegetmsgarg+0x7c/0x21c | simplecallwitharg+0x50/0xc0 | opteedobottomhalf+0x14/0x20 | notifcallback+0x3c/0x48 | handlenotifcallbacks+0x9c/0xe0 | notifgetandhandle+0x40/0x88 | genericexecsingle+0x80/0xc0 | smpcallfunctionsingle+0xfc/0x1a0 | notifpcpuirqworkfn+0x2c/0x38 | processonework+0x14c/0x2b4 | workerthread+0x2e4/0x3e0 | kthread+0x13c/0x210 | retfrom_fork+0x10/0x20

Fix this by adding work queue to process the notification in a non-atomic context.

References

Affected packages

Debian:13 / linux

Package

Name
linux
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/linux?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
6.12.37-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}