# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-37917"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-05-20T15:21:47.703Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:06:12.847Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:34.152Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37917"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-37917.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-37917"
title: "net: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nnet: ethernet: mtk-star-emac: fix spinlock recursion issues on rx/tx poll\n\nUse spin_lock_irqsave and spin_unlock_irqrestore instead of spin_lock\nand spin_unlock in mtk_star_emac driver to avoid spinlock recursion\noccurrence that can happen when enabling the DMA interrupts again in\nrx/tx poll.\n\n```\nBUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, swapper/0/0\n lock: 0xffff00000db9cf20, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/0/0,\n    .owner_cpu: 0\nCPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted\n    6.15.0-rc2-next-20250417-00001-gf6a27738686c-dirty #28 PREEMPT\nHardware name: MediaTek MT8365 Open Platform EVK (DT)\nCall trace:\n show_stack+0x18/0x24 (C)\n dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0x80\n dump_stack+0x18/0x24\n spin_dump+0x78/0x88\n do_raw_spin_lock+0x11c/0x120\n _raw_spin_lock+0x20/0x2c\n mtk_star_handle_irq+0xc0/0x22c [mtk_star_emac]\n __handle_irq_event_percpu+0x48/0x140\n handle_irq_event+0x4c/0xb0\n handle_fasteoi_irq+0xa0/0x1bc\n handle_irq_desc+0x34/0x58\n generic_handle_domain_irq+0x1c/0x28\n gic_handle_irq+0x4c/0x120\n do_interrupt_handler+0x50/0x84\n el1_interrupt+0x34/0x68\n el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24\n el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70\n regmap_mmio_read32le+0xc/0x20 (P)\n _regmap_bus_reg_read+0x6c/0xac\n _regmap_read+0x60/0xdc\n regmap_read+0x4c/0x80\n mtk_star_rx_poll+0x2f4/0x39c [mtk_star_emac]\n __napi_poll+0x38/0x188\n net_rx_action+0x164/0x2c0\n handle_softirqs+0x100/0x244\n __do_softirq+0x14/0x20\n ____do_softirq+0x10/0x20\n call_on_irq_stack+0x24/0x64\n do_softirq_own_stack+0x1c/0x40\n __irq_exit_rcu+0xd4/0x10c\n irq_exit_rcu+0x10/0x1c\n el1_interrupt+0x38/0x68\n el1h_64_irq_handler+0x18/0x24\n el1h_64_irq+0x6c/0x70\n cpuidle_enter_state+0xac/0x320 (P)\n cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50\n do_idle+0x1e4/0x260\n cpu_startup_entry+0x34/0x3c\n rest_init+0xdc/0xe0\n console_on_rootfs+0x0/0x6c\n __primary_switched+0x88/0x90\n```"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"97da99868573b8861de83f7126a5981d896c1d6c","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"bedd287fdd3142dffad7ae2ac6ef15f4a2ad0629"},{"version":"0a8bd81fd6aaace14979152e0540da8ff158a00a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"94107259f972d2fd896dbbcaa176b3b2451ff9e5"},{"version":"0a8bd81fd6aaace14979152e0540da8ff158a00a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"7cb10f17bddc415f30fbc00a4e2b490e0d94c462"},{"version":"0a8bd81fd6aaace14979152e0540da8ff158a00a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"8d40bf73fa7f31eac2b0a7c9d85de67df82ee7f3"},{"version":"0a8bd81fd6aaace14979152e0540da8ff158a00a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"d886f8d85494d12b2752fd7c6c32162d982d5dd5"},{"version":"0a8bd81fd6aaace14979152e0540da8ff158a00a","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"6fe0866014486736cc3ba1c6fd4606d3dbe55c9c"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"6.0","status":"affected"},{"version":"0","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"6.0"},{"version":"6.1.138","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.1.*"},{"version":"6.6.90","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.6.*"},{"version":"6.12.28","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.12.*"},{"version":"6.14.6","status":"unaffected","versionType":"semver","lessThanOrEqual":"6.14.*"},{"version":"6.15","status":"unaffected","versionType":"original_commit_for_fix","lessThanOrEqual":"*"}],"vendor":"Linux","product":"Linux","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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