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CVE-2025-38094

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

net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.

There is a situation where after THALT is set high, TGO stays high as well. Because jiffies are never updated, as we are in a context with interrupts disabled, we never exit that loop and have a deadlock.

That deadlock was noticed on a sama5d4 device that stayed locked for days.

Use retries instead of jiffies so that the timeout really works and we do not have a deadlock anymore.

  • Published: Jul 3, 2025
  • Updated: Dec 17, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2025-38094
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.5
  • AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
linux / linux_kernel 3.8 5.10.238
linux / linux_kernel 5.11 5.15.184
linux / linux_kernel 5.16 6.1.140
linux / linux_kernel 6.2 6.6.92
linux / linux_kernel 6.7 6.12.30
linux / linux_kernel 6.13 6.14.8
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc1 6.15-rc1.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc2 6.15-rc2.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc3 6.15-rc3.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc4 6.15-rc4.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc5 6.15-rc5.x
linux / linux_kernel 6.15-rc6 6.15-rc6.x
debian / debian_linux 11.0 11.0.x