# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-38280"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-07-10T07:41:58.853Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-15T01:07:00.944Z"
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-2025-38280"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-38280.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-38280"
title: "bpf: Avoid __bpf_prog_ret0_warn when jit fails"
summary: "In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:\n\nbpf: Avoid __bpf_prog_ret0_warn when jit fails\n\nsyzkaller reported an issue:\n\nWARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 217 at kernel/bpf/core.c:2357 __bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357\nModules linked in:\nCPU: 3 UID: 0 PID: 217 Comm: kworker/u32:6 Not tainted 6.15.0-rc4-syzkaller-00040-g8bac8898fe39\nRIP: 0010:__bpf_prog_ret0_warn+0xa/0x20 kernel/bpf/core.c:2357\nCall Trace:\n \u003cTASK\u003e\n bpf_dispatcher_nop_func include/linux/bpf.h:1316 [inline]\n __bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:718 [inline]\n bpf_prog_run include/linux/filter.h:725 [inline]\n cls_bpf_classify+0x74a/0x1110 net/sched/cls_bpf.c:105\n ...\n\nWhen creating bpf program, 'fp-\u003ejit_requested' depends on bpf_jit_enable.\nThis issue is triggered because of CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is not set\nand bpf_jit_enable is set to 1, causing the arch to attempt JIT the prog,\nbut jit failed due to FAULT_INJECTION. As a result, incorrectly\ntreats the program as valid, when the program runs it calls\n`__bpf_prog_ret0_warn` and triggers the WARN_ON_ONCE(1)."
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