Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 3, 2025· Updated Nov 3, 2025
net: cadence: macb: Fix a possible deadlock in macb_halt_tx.
CVE-2025-38094
Description
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.
Affected products
3- Linux/Linuxv5Range: 3.8
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
7- git.kernel.org/stable/c/0772a608d799ac0d127c0a36047a2725777aba9dmitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d60c0781c1bbeaa1196b0d8aad5c435f06cb7c4mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/3e64d35475aa21d13dab71da51de51923c1a3a48mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/64675a9c00443b2e8af42af08c38fc1b78b68ba2mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/84f98955a9de0e0f591df85aa1a44f3ebcf1cb37mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/aace6b63892ce8307e502a60fe2f5a4bc6e1cfe7mitre
- git.kernel.org/stable/c/c92d6089d8ad7d4d815ebcedee3f3907b539ff1fmitre
News mentions
0No linked articles in our index yet.