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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation. ## Source facts (JSON-quoted data) CNA source text (English) id: "CVE-2025-38244" idYear: 2025 status: "PUBLISHED" publishedAt: "2025-07-09T10:42:26.622Z" updatedAt: "2026-10-15T21:52:12.319Z" 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-2025-38244" json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38244.json" sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38244" title: "smb: client: fix potential deadlock when reconnecting channels" summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nsmb: client: fix potential deadlock when reconnecting channels\n\nFix cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect() to take the correct lock order\nand prevent the following deadlock from happening\n\n======================================================\nWARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected\n6.16.0-rc3-build2+ #1301 Tainted: G S W\n------------------------------------------------------\ncifsd/6055 is trying to acquire lock:\nffff88810ad56038 (&tcp_ses-\u003esrv_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x134/0x200\n\nbut task is already holding lock:\nffff888119c64330 (&ret_buf-\u003echan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0xcf/0x200\n\nwhich lock already depends on the new lock.\n\nthe existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:\n\n-\u003e #2 (&ret_buf-\u003echan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:\n validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270\n __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780\n lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0\n _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40\n cifs_setup_session+0x81/0x4b0\n cifs_get_smb_ses+0x771/0x900\n cifs_mount_get_session+0x7e/0x170\n cifs_mount+0x92/0x2d0\n cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x161/0x460\n smb3_get_tree+0x55/0x90\n vfs_get_tree+0x46/0x180\n do_new_mount+0x1b0/0x2e0\n path_mount+0x6ee/0x740\n do_mount+0x98/0xe0\n __do_sys_mount+0x148/0x180\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n-\u003e #1 (&ret_buf-\u003eses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:\n validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270\n __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780\n lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0\n _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40\n cifs_match_super+0x101/0x320\n sget+0xab/0x270\n cifs_smb3_do_mount+0x1e0/0x460\n smb3_get_tree+0x55/0x90\n vfs_get_tree+0x46/0x180\n do_new_mount+0x1b0/0x2e0\n path_mount+0x6ee/0x740\n do_mount+0x98/0xe0\n __do_sys_mount+0x148/0x180\n do_syscall_64+0xa4/0x260\n entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e\n\n-\u003e #0 (&tcp_ses-\u003esrv_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}:\n check_noncircular+0x95/0xc0\n check_prev_add+0x115/0x2f0\n validate_chain+0x1cf/0x270\n __lock_acquire+0x60e/0x780\n lock_acquire.part.0+0xb4/0x1f0\n _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40\n cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x134/0x200\n __cifs_reconnect+0x8f/0x500\n cifs_handle_standard+0x112/0x280\n cifs_demultiplex_thread+0x64d/0xbc0\n kthread+0x2f7/0x310\n ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x230\n ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30\n\nother info that might help us debug this:\n\nChain exists of:\n &tcp_ses-\u003esrv_lock --\u003e &ret_buf-\u003eses_lock --\u003e &ret_buf-\u003echan_lock\n\n Possible unsafe locking scenario:\n\n CPU0 CPU1\n ---- ----\n lock(&ret_buf-\u003echan_lock);\n lock(&ret_buf-\u003eses_lock);\n lock(&ret_buf-\u003echan_lock);\n lock(&tcp_ses-\u003esrv_lock);\n\n *** DEADLOCK ***\n\n3 locks held by cifsd/6055:\n #0: ffffffff857de398 (&cifs_tcp_ses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x7b/0x200\n #1: ffff888119c64060 (&ret_buf-\u003eses_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0x9c/0x200\n #2: ffff888119c64330 (&ret_buf-\u003echan_lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: cifs_signal_cifsd_for_reconnect+0xcf/0x200" affected: 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