VYPR
High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2025· Updated Jul 30, 2026

CVE-2025-39908

CVE-2025-39908

Description

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

net: dev_ioctl: take ops lock in hwtstamp lower paths

ndo hwtstamp callbacks are expected to run under the per-device ops lock. Make the lower get/set paths consistent with the rest of ndo invocations.

Kernel log: WARNING: CPU: 13 PID: 51364 at ./include/net/netdev_lock.h:70 __netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 ... RIP: 0010:__netdev_update_features+0x4bd/0xe60 ... Call Trace:

netdev_update_features+0x1f/0x60 mlx5_hwtstamp_set+0x181/0x290 [mlx5_core] mlx5e_hwtstamp_set+0x19/0x30 [mlx5_core] dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp_phylib+0x9f/0x220 dev_set_hwtstamp+0x13d/0x240 dev_ioctl+0x12f/0x4b0 sock_ioctl+0x171/0x370 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x3f7/0x900 ? __sys_setsockopt+0x69/0xb0 do_syscall_64+0x6f/0x2e0 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 ...

.... ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---

Note that the mlx5_hwtstamp_set and mlx5e_hwtstamp_set functions shown in the trace come from an in progress patch converting the legacy ioctl to ndo_hwtstamp_get/set and are not present in mainline.

Affected products

9
  • Linux/Kernel8 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 7 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=6.15,<6.16.8
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc3:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc4:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:6.17:rc5:*:*:*:*:*:*
    • (no CPE)
    • (no CPE)range: 6.15
  • osv-coords
    Range: >= 6.15.0, < 6.16.8

Patches

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